The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference

We are at war, the Dnieper is a battle zone, every possibility of feeding the troops must be exploited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

On a hill fronting the Dnieper is a huge bronze statue of St. Vladimir, who brought Christianity to his subjects at Kieff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

"Dnieper" is one of those great odd-consonant-starting European cities, Like BRNO and GDANSK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle] Reference

One can tell how close we are to the river Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

At Ekaterinoslaf we are again on the great Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Dnieper at a place to which their walk had led them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Down near the Dnieper stood the house of David Kierson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Some of Ruric's followers, passing southward along the Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

The German line was back on the Dnieper at the end of September.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

Boristhenes or Dnieper in Russia -- the Thames and the Severn in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.] Reference

Perun's image was handsomely flogged and thrown into the Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

To the south-east of the city, stretched along the Dnieper, lay the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

To the east of the Dnieper and Moscow the war is hardly felt at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

Tigris and Euphrates; in Pontus in Asia, the Dnieper, Bug, and Don; in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Sweden, descended the Dnieper and Dniester rivers and, crossing the Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

The Dnieper was alive with merchant vessels, and she counted eight markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

Gosler, our Q.M., is sent out ahead with a small fatigue party to the Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

Patzinakia was the country from the Danube to the Dnieper, and corresponds with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela] Reference

A great fleet of magnificently decorated galleys bore her down the river Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

They will cross the Dnieper to one side of the city, crowding, fighting, falling together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

As well endeavor to stay the flood of the mighty Dnieper with a net drawn across its stream!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

They had, indeed, reduced almost every important place between the Danube and the Bog and Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Autumn is already in the air when we receive orders to include the Dnieper front in our operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

Dnieper and flanked with battlemented walls to withstand the attacks of the infidels in olden times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

For the first of the 4th Army's regular infantry divisions was now drawn into action across the Dnieper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

Our station is the airfield on the east bank of the Dnieper, it is a long way to our billets in the center of the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]

They had no more than ten divisions across the Dnieper, and these had now penetrated a further 120 miles beyond the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

Only Rundstedt was wholeheartedly against this course, recommending that the Army stand on the Dnieper until the spring of 1942.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

The lorry with the fishing party returns from the Dnieper a few hours after me; they bring back with them several hundredweight of fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuka Pilot]