Maeander
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This river also flows through the city, discharging itself into the Maeander, and is five-and-twenty feet broad.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
This kind of country lasts for a four-days' passage, and the Nile here winds as much as the Maeander.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
He got out of the camp as soon as he could, and walked by the green banks of the still Maeander.
From Via Crucis by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
It was situated where the Marsyas leaves the hills to join the Maeander, and it became a seat of Seleucid power, and a centre of Graeco-Roman and Graeco-Hebrew civilization and commerce.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Accordingly he repeated his former tactics, transporting his infantry bodily into Caria and posting his cavalry in the valley of the Maeander.
From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns
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