Ouse

Three miles to the west from here is the great river you call the Ouse, it is on the other side of that where we dwell.

Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion 1867

[13] these have not been demolishd many years. the river Ouse is there very wide & from the window where we were it had been easy to have caught a dinner of fish. your letter gave place to dinner & after that important business was dispatchd we enquird how far to Cambridge?

Letter 49 1793

Now here, upon a very sad November afternoon, when the Northern day was narrowing in; and the Ouse, which is usually of a ginger-color, was nearly as dark as a nutmeg; and the bridge, and the staith, and the houses, and the people, resembled one another in tint and tone; while between the Minster and the Clifford Tower there was not much difference of outline — here and now Master

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

This town is watered by two rivers, the Cherwell and the Isis, vulgarly called the Ouse; and though these streams join in the same channel, yet the Isis runs more entire and with more rapidity towards the south, retaining its name till it meets the

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

Accordingly, it was finally arranged that the latter should have assigned to them a tract of land on the Grand River (then called the Ouse) comprehending six miles on each side of the stream, from the mouth to the source.

Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 John Charles Dent 1864

The great width of the valley of the Ouse, which is sometimes 2 miles, has not been expressed in the diagram.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

Now here, upon a very sad November afternoon, when the Northern day was narrowing in; and the Ouse, which is usually of a ginger-color, was nearly as dark as a nutmeg; and the bridge, and the staith, and the houses, and the people, resembled one another in tint and tone; while between the Minster and the Clifford Tower there was not much difference of outline -- here and now Master Geoffrey Mordacks was sitting in the little room where strangers were received.

Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

The small portion of the river-basin of the Great Ouse which is within our area has rather less rain than the average for the county.

Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901

If it's Public 'Ouse 'gainst Wash' Ouse, if it's Slumland _wersus_

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 Various 1876

He had been a reporter, and as such knew the "'Ouse" well, and was a writer for the press.

Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869