Menam
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Gloucester, Mass. Boowoo & Ubum Sirs: Before leaving there I fished the upper Menam, the regal preserve to which I had been granted piscary.
From Time Magazine Archive
We then went on the river Menam, to visit certain temples.
From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes
Bangkok, which, with its suburbs, has a population about equal to that of Boston, is built on the banks of the country's greatest river, the Menam, some forty miles from its mouth.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
Unfortunately, a shallow bar at the mouth of the Menam River prevents the passage of large vessels.
From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes
It was very lucky for the Dane that he could swim, because the room opened on a verandah and the Menam flowed below very wide and black.
From Lord Jim by Conrad, Joseph
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