A tributary colony. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Students rally to name tributary after late science teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference
A tributary is a smaller river that flows into the main channel. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Gironde, so that it can scarce be called a tributary of that wide water. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
Conscious of superior power, we can bear to hear our Sovereign described as a tributary of the. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
From Wikipedia: A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October] Reference
Although the Angara is five times as large as the Yenisei, it is called a tributary of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference
The Shang seems to have already built a kind of tributary system to exploit neighboring material resources such as salt, bronze, and lead. From Wordnik.com. [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference
(A "tributary" was generally reckoned as five persons, one "tribute" being required for each adult male. From Wordnik.com. [The Indolence of the Filipino] Reference
We now commenced the descent on a tributary of this river. From Wordnik.com. [California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state] Reference
The river turned out to be a tributary of a much larger river. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations] Reference
It makes that a despotic king which should be a tributary subject. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The tributary country was not very important in a commercial sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Chickahominy river, a tributary of the James, that was referred to. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
I do not deny that passion may be made tributary to the power of men. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The Oise is the first really great commercial tributary of the Seine. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
He says dam removal will open 112 kilometers of river and tributary habitat. From Wordnik.com. [Demolished Dams Make Way for Salmon] Reference
And king Assuerus made all the land, and all the islands of the sea tributary. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
And he actually was in the Wolf River, which was a tributary of the Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [Assisted Listen: TV Homage Boosts Buckley] Reference
Demands on the Nile's bounty can only grow as tributary states above Egypt and Sudan. From Wordnik.com. [Longest River, Wide Adventure] Reference
Is it to be cut off from the seaboard, and rendered tributary to the maritime power?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon him, and he became tributary to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
His account of the great cataract at the junction of the tributary Caroni is very graphic. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
This fish (but seldom taken any great weight) abounds in the Tees and its tributary streams. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
The railroads radiating north, east, south and west, give it an enormous tributary territory. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
The course of the Colorado and its tributary, Green River, presents some interesting problems. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Incense, gum, and coffee, are every where abundant around the Webbe and its tributary streams. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Hell's Gate was once a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. From Wordnik.com. [Photos of the Day: Aug. 31] Reference
An onsite railway leads to Dongfang's own heavy-duty river port in Leshan, on a Yangtze tributary. From Wordnik.com. [Sichuan Gusto] Reference
We are dealing with something else: what has been familiar since ancient times as a tributary system. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Protection] Reference
Outside, herons patrolled the tributary, and cypress trees dug their roots into its murky green water. From Wordnik.com. [Rod and Gun Club] Reference
Crowded up against the mountains, at the end of a little valley, through which runs a tributary to the Rio. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
About seventy miles up this great tributary is an infant settlement called Chicontimi, a station of the fur-traders. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
No matter which tributary of the zeitgeist you find relevant, there's most likely a scripted drama trading on your anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Reality TV] Reference
The business of the place was considerable, many of the merchants being wholesale dealers for the vast territory tributary. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Considered with regard to the tributary interior, New York occupies a position no less central than with respect to the coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
But even without them our newly enlarged and all-encompassing bipartisan tributary system would continue to exist and flourish. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Protection] Reference
Brook, a tributary of the Boquet, and, by a somewhat rough and stony way, began to ascend the high land separating the Boquet from the Au. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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