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  • adjective Attributive form of river bank, noun.

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Examples

  • Voices of men came to her from down the river-bank, and the splashing of water.

    CHAPTER 30 2010

  • She took the steep river-bank in full career and dashed like a whirlwind through the town and home.

    CHAPTER 9 2010

  • Three weeks later, one morning, Steve and I were standing on the river-bank at Dawson.

    That Spot 2010

  • Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.

    Country diary: Forest-in-Teesdale 2011

  • Three weeks later, one morning, Steve and I were standing on the river-bank at Dawson.

    That Spot 2010

  • Again he played as a puppy on the broad verandas of MISTER Haggin's plantation bungalow at Meringe; or, with Jerry, stalked the edges of the jungle down by the river-bank to spy upon the crocodiles; or, learning from MISTER Haggin and Bob, and patterning after Biddy and Terrence, to consider black men as lesser and despised gods who must for ever be kept strictly in their places.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • In one battle, so the story goes, Alexander was injured in a battle to capture a city on a river-bank - the details are vague.

    Miep Gies and against the cult of personality erkenbrand 2010

  • On the morning of March 28 the savages were still in my front, and after giving them some solid shot from Captain Dall's gun we slipped down to the river-bank, and the detachment crossed by means of the Hudson's Bay boat, making a landing on the opposite shore at a point where the south channel of the river, after flowing around Bradford's Island, joins the main stream.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • In one battle, so the story goes, Alexander was injured in a battle to capture a city on a river-bank - the details are vague.

    Archive 2010-02-01 erkenbrand 2010

  • Sources said that the situation in Lucknow is quite gruesome - there are about 1,500 families displaced due to river-bank 'development' and only 400 of those will get the houses being constructed under BSUP scheme.

    Mayawati ji, why did we get bulldozers instead of homes? 2009

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