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- An unnaturally bright object comes into view near the confluence of two smaller streams: Fairbanks bus 142.† (source)
- The trials were to be held at a new stadium on Randall's Island, in the confluence of the East and Harlem rivers.† (source)
- The location is prime — the east bank of the Louveteau River, at the confluence with the Jogues — thus combining a romantic view of the Gorge with a safe mooring for sailboats.† (source)
- I'm terribly sorry, but due to a confluence of unexpected events, I am not going to be able to keep our appointment today.† (source)
- The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century In the aftermath of slavery, the creation of a system of racial hierarchy and segregation was largely designed to prevent intimate relationships like Walter and Karen's—relationships that were, in fact, legally prohibited by "anti-miscegenation statutes" (the word miscegenation came into use in the 1860s, when supporters of slavery coined the term to promote the fear of interracial sex and marriage and the race mixing that would result if slavery was abolished).† (source)
- As the ball rolled into Front Street with Sagamore in close pursuit, the baby-rattle tinkle of the odd bell of the diaper truck dinged persistently, even at the moment of the truck's sudden confluence with Sagamore's unlucky head.† (source)
- It was near dark when they reached it, at the crossroads north of the great confluence of the Trident.† (source)
- She came at last to a confluence of shabby streets which she assumed from the detached quarter of her map was Stockwell.† (source)
- A CONFLUENCE OF PATHS Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, I heard a wise man say I took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day —Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost) March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter.† (source)
- The streets converged, coming together at odd angles, as the city narrowed to the point where the great rivers met, the Monongahela and the Allegheny, their confluence forming the Ohio, which traveled to Kentucky and beyond before it poured itself into the Mississippi and disappeared.† (source)
- Meandering from one road to the next, he eventually found the waterfront, recalling that the town had been developed at the confluence of Boone Creek and the Pamlico River.† (source)
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- Amid the confluence of crowded structures on the left and descending terraces on the right was James's compound.† (source)
- There were large confluent purple patches showing on Anjali's skin.† (source)
- As Eragon followed her, he sensed a strange confluence of energies below them and also the minds of five people whose thoughts were closed to him.† (source)
- Tereza listened to her with the remarkable concentration that few professors ever see on the face of a student and began to perceive that all Sabina's paintings, past and present, did indeed treat the same idea, that they all featured the confluence of two themes, two worlds, that they were all double exposures, so to speak.† (source)
- General Dreedle's nurse was only a little chubby, and his senses were stuffed to congestion with the yellow radiance of her hair and the unfelt pressure of her soft short fingers, with the rounded, untasted wealth of her nubile breasts in her Army-pink shirt that was opened wide at the throat and with the rolling, ripened, triangular confluences of her belly and thighs in her tight, slick forest-green gabardine officer's pants.† (source)
- Taxila's position, at the confluence of the East-West trade routes that would become the Grand Trunk Road, at the spot where it bisected the Silk Road from China, shimmering down switchbacks from the Himalaya, had been one of the strategic hubs of antiquity.† (source)
- Their early morning thoughts were stimulated by the confluence of great energy and minds freshly drawn from oblivion.† (source)
- In both crash number one and number three there was a confluence of mechanical problems and mistaken action by the pilot.† (source)
- It sounds more like, say, a confluence of circumstances outside of your control.† (source)
- And did he find the confluence of events—the dead drop and the sudden travel of a trusted lieutenant—a bit too coincidental for comfort?† (source)
- Around you, in late August, beauty is reduced at last to beauty at the confluence of two rivers.† (source)
- But I could not help myself; indeed, I felt her grief meet mine in some huge gushing confluence and flow onward with it even as I continued to rage.† (source)
- I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one.† (source)
- Inside that confluence of multifaceted inhibitors," she sighed, "what is freedom really?"† (source)
- He hadn't picked up a camera since he went to stand by the confluence of those rivers.† (source)
- Here time, also, is subject to confluence.† (source)
- All they could see was sky, water, birds, light, and confluence.† (source)
- It was the whole morning world: And they themselves were a part of the confluence.† (source)
- She believed it just as she believed that the confluence of the waters was still happening at Cairo.† (source)
- This was the confluence of the waters, the Ohio and the Mississippi.† (source)
- Fairbanks bus 142 is parked beside a coppice of aspen, ten yards back from the brow of a modest cliff, on a shank of high ground overlooking the confluence of the Sushana River and a smaller tributary.† (source)
- In New Bern, a quaint town situated at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, he stopped for lunch.† (source)
- He passed through downtown and crossed the bridge that spanned the confluence of Greens Creek and Smith Creek.† (source)
- Of course the greatest confluence of all is that which makes up the human memory—the individual human memory.† (source)
- And the cauldron burst in two, because all the liquor within it except the three charm-bearing drops was poisonous, so that the horses of Gwyddno Garanhir were poisoned by the water of the stream into which the liquor of the cauldron ran, and the confluence of that stream was called the Poison of the Horses of Gwyddno from that time forth.† (source)
- The two outfits gradually hunted down the tributary towards its confluence with the Brazos.† (source)
- The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face.† (source)
- And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons.† (source)
- Lower down, the infantry continued; but as the stream was suddenly swelled by the confluence of a considerable burn, they were more widely set, and only watched the fords and stepping-stones.† (source)
- Then round the corner of the lane, from between the villas that guarded it at its confluence with the high road, came a little cart drawn by a sweating black pony and driven by a sallow youth in a bowler hat, grey with dust.† (source)
- Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.† (source)
- The Passage of Arms, as it was called, which was to take place at Ashby, in the county of Leicester, as champions of the first renown were to take the field in the presence of Prince John himself, who was expected to grace the lists, had attracted universal attention, and an immense confluence of persons of all ranks hastened upon the appointed morning to the place of combat.† (source)
- A confluent small-pox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.† (source)
- This singular accident, by a strange confluence of emotions in him, was felt as the sharpest sting of all.† (source)
- In the passage which conducts a lettered people from the one to the other, there is almost always a moment at which the literary genius of democratic nations has its confluence with that of aristocracies, and both seek to establish their joint sway over the human mind.† (source)
- In the confluence of the multitude, several clubs crossed; blows, aimed at me, fell on other sconces.† (source)
- They were traced along the margin of the Mississippi, for some distance, until they took boat and ascended the river to its confluence with the Missouri.† (source)
- At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green treetops and bluish gorges.† (source)
- Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose—some twenty or more feet out of the water—the now rising swells, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively tossing their shivered spray still higher into the air.† (source)
- The case was evidently this: a position was selected along the river Kolocha—which crosses the highroad not at a right angle but at an acute angle—so that the left flank was at Shevardino, the right flank near the village of Novoe, and the center at Borodino at the confluence of the rivers Kolocha and Voyna.† (source)
- But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.† (source)
- Upon the Trojan plain where the two rivers run, Skamander flowing to confluence with Simoeis, Hera halted to let her horses graze.† (source)
- In spring, snow-water torrents risen and flowing down the mountainsides hurl at a confluence their mighty waters out of the gorges, filled by tributaries, and far away upon the hills a shepherd hears the roar.† (source)
- persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downward tending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vas† (source)
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