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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river of north-central Kazakhstan and west-central Russia rising in the southeast foothills of the Ural Mountains and flowing about 1,690 km (1,050 mi) northeastward to the Irtysh River.

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Examples

  • Of high priority are all preserved massifs of original dark-coniferous-broadleaf, broadleaf forests of the Tavdinsko-Kovdinskaja Plain, and forests between the Tobol and Ishym Rivers.

    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

  • This passage was rather more difficult than that of the Tobol.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • "Your father Nicoli Petrovitch was a prince too, like his father and back for generations, Prince of Kurgan and even Tobol."

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • No one in Asia knows my home was in Kurgan, in the flatlands on the banks of the River Tobol, nor that my father was Prince of Kurgan and Tobol, nor that my darling Nestorova, my child-wife of a thousand lifetimes ago, swallowed up in the revolution while I was with my regiment

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • No one in Asia knows my home was in Kurgan, in the flatlands on the banks of the River Tobol, nor that my father was Prince of Kurgan and Tobol, nor that my darling Nestorova, my child-wife of a thousand lifetimes ago, swallowed up in the revolution while I was with my regiment

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • The line crosses the Tobol at Kurgan, the Ishim at

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • In the Tobol and Ishim plains of western Siberia are the fertile black-earth regions covering twenty-five million acres.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • This passage was rather more difficult than that of the Tobol.

    Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

  • The Irtish also receives from the west a large tributary, the Tobol, and at the confluence stands the town of

    From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

  • He at once attacks them himself, carries off a complete victory, and, opened, as far as the mouth of the Tobol, a route whose perils were not yet all dissipated.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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