fordless
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Origin of fordless
Example Sentences
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Nothing—neither sloughs, nor bogs, nor pathless forests, nor fordless rivers, could check the advancing tide of the marching throng; and one morning, from every point of the compass, lo! they took possession of Chartres.
From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide,— The soul's blue abysses our homesteads divide: Down through the still river they deepen forever, Like the skies it reflects from above.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
It is a country of impenetrable forests, fordless rivers, and unclimbable mountains.
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by Westall, William
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