water-parting

Blessed with unaccountable gifts such as water-parting, the healing touch, flocking lepers at your door or the ability to spark two thousand years of senseless war?

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

The site of our discovery was the water-parting of the Wady

The Land of Midian 2003

In the morning the northern air and fresh wind of this desert were so cool to us that we made a hot breakfast before we cranked up the cars and purred over the meeting of Um Kharug and Dhirwa, over the broad basin of Dhirwa itself, and past its imperceptible water-parting into the Jesha.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He informed me that Albania was just ahead, about three hundred meters, but was unmarked because a debate had been going on for centuries as to the exact line of the water-parting in this section of the mountains.

The Black Mountain Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1954

Excluding the ridge of high ground running east and west which, culminating at a height of 5000 ft., forms the Congo-Zambezi water-parting, the extreme east (Batoka) and the district in the immediate vicinity of the Victoria

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

In the first of these is the vast region of the northern part of Mexico, which, with Texas and New Mexico, drains into the Rio Grande and thence into the Gulf; the long littoral of the Gulf Coast, whose _divortia aquarum_, or water-parting, is formed by the Eastern Sierra Madre; and the peninsula of Yucatan.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

The line of frontier shall start from the point where the boundary between the Congo Free State and French territory meets the water-parting between the watershed of the Nile and that of the Congo and its affluents.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

It shall follow in principle that water-parting up to its intersection with the 11th parallel of north latitude.

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

Villon is but a little village over beyond the upper Yonne, near the division, within a day of the water-parting where the land falls southward to Burgundy and the sun in what they call "The Slope of Gold."

Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911

-- "For all lovers of a good story of genuine travel and adventure it will be a most delightful book to read, and the fact that it deals with the hitherto untrodden region of India's great northern water-parting will render it doubly interesting."

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