The headwaters of the Nile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Three-Day Cutt Slam...] Reference
Like Colorado, Wyoming is a "headwaters" state - the source of many of the West's great rivers. From Wordnik.com. [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference
Two days after, they reached the headwaters of the Pecos. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Litani and Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa). From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
They all seem to spring full-blown from the same headwaters. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Greener: Public Office In America: The Reign Of Idiots] Reference
Courantyne/Koetari Rivers (all headwaters of the Courantyne). From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Some distance south of Damascus I cross the headwaters of the. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
Tibet controls most of the headwaters of India's great rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: China and India: A War of Giants] Reference
Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa) in French Guiana. From Wordnik.com. [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In the fall of 1861, in Piketon, Ky., at the headwaters of the Big. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
But he would have gone anywhere to find the headwaters of the Nile. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
On the farther side of this slope she came upon the headwaters of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
We ascended the mountains to the foot where were the headwaters of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The city lay on the headwaters of the river under the great mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Egypt depended fully on the river and needed to control its headwaters. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
At last they came to a sluggish streamlet, the headwaters of the Kankakee. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Next week, Gwen Thompkins travels to Ethiopia, home to the headwaters of the Blue Nile. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Trouble always follows the destruction of the forests on the headwaters of the streams. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Why, I nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Lake Otsego is also the headwaters of the Susquehanna River, which flows to Chesapeake Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Reinbach: Gas Drilling, Politics, and Irony] Reference
To the south, the same office is performed by the various branching headwaters of the Hudson. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
These pools are the places where the salmon rest in their journey from the sea to the headwaters of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
It is pleasantly situated on the swells of a fine undulating country, drained by the headwaters of the Monocacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The Inventor had been obliged to run the Terror to the headwaters of the creek ere they were able to pass the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference
Grande; between it and the headwaters of the Gila evidences of ancient habitations were observed on the small streams. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The highest mountain in North America is Mt. McKinley, at the headwaters of the Suswhitna and Kuskokwim rivers, Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
These things will not protect dwellers on the lower reaches of our rivers so long as there is no control of the headwaters. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
GWEN THOMPKINS: Most of the explorers whose names are linked to the headwaters of the Nile weren't exactly the nicest bunch. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery On The Nile: Just Whose River Is It?] Reference
Riviere Litani and Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa); area disputed by Guyana between New (Upper Courantyne) and. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Father Buteux was killed on his way to his mission of the Attikamegs or White Fish tribe, at the headwaters of the St. Maurice. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Going back to the question of Egypt, a fundamental ambiguity of U.S. policy seems to be on the issue of the Nile and its headwaters. From Wordnik.com. [Sudan: 'Let Us Have Two Constitutions'] Reference
Expedition and, having observed that there were many beavers in the headwaters of the Missouri River, desired to try trapping there. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
It differs from other types, hereafter to be described, but, like all of them, its headwaters are a lake, and it is fed by a glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Grover made it their business to go about among the Cheyennes -- the most warlike tribe of all -- then camping about the headwaters of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"Before long the stream will be so wide that you can't cross back, and then you'll have to retrace your steps clear to the headwaters!". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Two large windows overlooked the pond, the sloping depression of The Gore, the course of the Rothel, and the headwaters of Lake Mesantic. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
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