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Sentence Examples She would sit down and read at the Jardins de Luxembourg, meander past the stalls along the river Seine, searching for pre-loved classical books. The burial habits are mirrored by Gallic tribes of the Seine valley in France, from which they may have descended. The horses pulling his carriage bolted and the carriage was left hanging over a bridge above the river Seine. I remember entering a shipyard, along the quays of the Seine, outside of Paris. It is studded with a staccato attack of ink dots and dashes of correction fluid that suggest the patterns of wind on the surface of the Seine. They had a summer of champagne, discreet suppers and walks by the Seine, but after that they saw each other less regularly. About 40 per cent of water flowing into the Seine River at peak flows would be diverted directly into the floodway. It is located on the right bank of the estuary of the Seine River, 90 km downstream from Rouen and 220 km from Paris. Because of the prevailing south-westerlies in the exposed Baie de Seine, we stayed in sheltered waters nearer shore until ready to dive. The Garonne, Loire, Seine, and Rhine led them to the northern Atlantic communities in contrast to the Phoenician sea route which led to Iberia. Leaning on a stone parapet overlooking the Seine, a young man loses himself in a book held open in front of him. He could almost see Paris, the sun just beginning to peer over Notre Dame, creating sparkly reflections on the Seine. About half past midnight, the side-car stopped on a bridge above the Seine. The Seine snakes down to the bottom right before curving back up. Her Chateau de Bellevue was on the edge of the Meudon Forest, with a long view of the Seine Valley down to Paris, and with the Sevres potteries tucked under the escarpment. Here are the high plains and deeply-cleft bocage country of Normandy, the stony, prehistoric wilds of Brittany, and the richly-planted riversides of the Seine and the Loire. At the beginning of the eighth century, Anglo-Saxon and Frisian merchants had sailed up the Seine to Paris, carrying the wine to be sold at the fairs of Saint-Denis. Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine. Many of Valery's essays make reference not only to the salons and cafes on the banks of the Seine, but to other interiors like rooms and garrets of artists of the time. The river Seine bisects the city, the Right Bank is home to the grand boulevards and most monumental buildings, many dating from Haussmann's nineteenth-century redevelopment. Show More Sentences At this point, West Francia was composed of Neustria in the west and in the east by Francia proper, the region between the Meuse and the Seine. Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division headed west over the Seine river through Normandy and captured the port of Cherbourg on 18 June. Next day, attacks resumed against German units south of the Seine but the weather had worsened and fewer sorties were flown. On 9 June, German tanks entered Rouen on the Seine, cutting off the IX Corps from the X Corps to the east and from the Seine to the south. Weygand was unmoved, only giving permission for the division to retreat over the Seine if it was pushed back from the Andelle. During the morning, German tanks entered Rouen, to find that French and British troops had left and blown the Seine bridges. The Tenth Army was broken through and retreated to Rouen and southwards along the Seine. German forces retreated across the Seine on 30 August 1944, marking the close of Operation Overlord. The Allied armies would then swing left to advance towards the River Seine. The Germans pulled back on 29 August, withdrawing over the Seine the next day. On the afternoon of 30 August, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division crossed the Seine near Elbeuf and entered Rouen to a jubilant welcome. Approximately 2,300 tanks and assault guns were committed to the battle, of which only 100 to 120 crossed the Seine at the end of the campaign. She sailed up the Seine and arrived in Paris on 28 March, becoming a popular sensation. When she reached Paris, the new owners renamed her Elise and inaugurated a Seine steamboat service. After testing in the Thames, the boat steamed to Paris where she was used on the River Seine. The soil consists of several metres of alluvium or silt deposited by the Seine. On 6 June 1905 Gabriel Voisin took off and landed on the River Seine with a towed kite glider on floats. In May 1545, the French had assembled a large fleet in the estuary of the Seine with the intent to land troops on English soil. Even so, sometimes the term was used as well to encompass Neustria north of the Loire and west of the Seine. He later operated his ship as a river packet on the Seine, between Paris and Le Havre. Show More Sentences Le Havre occupies the north bank of the estuary of the Seine on the Channel. This territory of the Celtic tribes was bounded on the south by the Garonne and on the north by the Seine and the Marne. In the beginning of the 900's, Vikings had established an encampment and base in the lower parts of the Seine river around Rouen. A naturally defensible position was identified perched high above the River Seine, an important transport route, in the manor of Andeli. The current position of the English Channel was a large river flowing westwards and fed by tributaries that later became the Thames and Seine. The Vikings started to raid the Seine Valley during the middle of the 9th century. As early as 841, a Viking fleet appeared at the mouth of the Seine, the principal route by which they entered the kingdom. A notable feature of the landscape is created by the meanders of the Seine as it approaches its estuary. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine River. Gillnetting and Seine netting is a significant cause of mortality in seals and other marine mammals. By measuring rainfall, runoff, and drainage area, Perrault showed that rainfall was sufficient to account for flow of the Seine. The Kingdom of the Franks under Charlemagne was particularly devastated by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine with near impunity. According to his will, Napoleon, who died in 1821, wished to be buried on the banks of the Seine. It was introduced by Jules Desnoyers in 1829 for sediments of France's Seine Basin that seemed clearly to be younger than Tertiary Period rocks. Gillnetting and Seine netting is a significant cause of mortality in whales and other marine mammals. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux. A local televised edition on France 3, France 3 Baie de Seine, is broadcast every evening then again on France 3 Haute Normandie. Still farther East, however, the typical Continental connections of the Britannic coast were with the lower Seine valley instead. By 911, the area had been raided many times and there were even small Viking settlements on the lower Seine. The Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Show More Sentences Burnley's main war memorial stands in Place de Vitry sur Seine next to the central library. I checked my suitcase at the Left Luggage counter and then went for a little walk along the River Seine. Maintenance of sanitation networks and related structures of the sanitation union Boucle de Seine. When I first went to Paris, I fell in love with the serenading of the piano accordion by the River Seine. Viking invaders arrived at the mouth of the river Seine in 911, at a time when Franks were fighting on horseback and Frankish lords were building castles. It covers a host of museums such as the Louvre, the Bateaux Mouches Seine boat tours, open-top bus tour with commentary and unlimited Metro travel. On 13 June, the Germans were across the Seine in the west and the French armies near Paris fell back, isolating the Tenth Army on the Channel coast. In his will, he had asked to be buried on the banks of the Seine, but the British governor said he should be buried on Saint Helena, in the Valley of the Willows. South of Abbeville, the French Tenth Army under General Robert Altmayer had its front broken and it was forced to retreat to Rouen and south along the Seine river. The town of Jarrow this year celebrated 50 years of town twinning with Epinay-sur Seine in the northern suburbs of Paris and Hebburn is also twinned with Noisy-le-Sec. Philip had spent this time consolidating his territorial gains and by now controlled much of Normandy east of the Seine, while remaining within striking distance of Rouen. Rollo emerged as the outstanding personality among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine. By the agreement, Charles III, king of the West Franks, granted to the Viking leader Rollo some lands along the lower Seine that were apparently already under Danish control. In the same year, 129 ships returned to attack up the Seine. He reached the river Seine to find most of the crossings destroyed. During the 9th century peak of the Viking expansion, large fleets set out to attack the degrading Frankish empire by attacking up navigable rivers such as the Seine. In 2009, it was announced that Atlantic salmon had returned to the Seine. Heavy metal concentrations in the Seine are relatively high. Under these conditions untreated sewage is discharged into the Seine. Since then, during glacial times, the river mouth was located offshore of Brest, France and rivers, like the River Thames and the Seine, became tributaries to the Rhine. Show More Sentences After 851, Vikings began to stay in the lower Seine valley for the winter. The Seine, Thames, Meuse, Scheldt and Rhine rivers joined and flowed west along the English Channel as a wide slow river before eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean. The retreat caused Sir John French to question the competence of his Allies resulting in further indecision and led to his decision to withdraw the BEF south of the Seine. By AD 900 the Vikings secured for themselves a foothold on Frankish soil along the Lower Seine River valley in what is now France that became known as Normandy. Bodies were stripped naked, mutilated, and thrown into the Seine. The river Seine froze that winter, which made it impossible for ships to bring food and coal to Paris, leading to widespread starvation and deaths from the cold in that city. This territory was added to the grant of land given in settlement by the King of France in 911 to the Viking raiders who had sailed up the Seine almost to the walls of Paris. A few days later, the Allied Liberation of Paris was completed, and on 30 August the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, which ended Operation Overlord. Examples from Classical Literature A sole wing, that following the Seine and abutting at right angles against the Pavilion de l'Horloge, had resulted. So far as its appearance goes, it might be on the Seine instead of the Saigon. By three o'clock they had left the estuary of the Seine and entered the Channel. In the course of the following year, he advanced along the banks of the Seine as far as its junction with the Eure. A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness. I dare say he fell into the Seine off an omnibus and that the conductor hushed up the scandal. In the garden there was a terrace, from which the view extends to the Seine. Pierre la Seine, going a step farther, shows that the intention was to recommend to young men temperance in eating and drinking. In the 16th century the port began to dwindle in importance owing to the silting up of the Seine estuary and the rise of Havre. The third part of the hoast went to Meulanc, a verie strong towne compassed about with the riuer of Seine. Subterranean passages ran to the Seine from No. 30, and some other riverine houses. Then the Seine flows like a ribbon of silver in a northwesterly direction into the English Channel. Oise, a river which flows into the Seine, from the north, not far below Paris. The meeting had been appointed to take place at Montereau, where the river Yonne falls into the Seine. The department belongs to the Seine basin, and is watered chiefly by the Seine and the Aube. In 103 they marched back through Gaul, which they overran as far as the Seine, where the Belgae made a stout resistance. I began to run, in order to overtake them along the Seine, which they had to follow in order to reach the station of chaton. There is a number of bridges over the Seine, and several of them have buildings on either side, which form a complete street. At Vernon, his sickly condition did not permit him, when a child, to go and dabble in the Seine. The reader must now cross the Seine with us and follow us to the door of the Carmelite Convent in the Rue Saint Jacques. Show More Sentences In his walk he had crossed one of the bridges of the Seine, and he still followed, unheedingly, the long, unbroken quay. Why, they induced General Quesnel to go there, and General Quesnel, who quitted his own house at nine o'clock in the evening, was found the next day in the Seine. The gendarmerie of the Seine, with their trumpets and Colonel. The sky was rosy, and the Seine was the colour of gooseberry sirup. It is really upon the EPT, a tributary of the Seine, distant half a mile. Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. And you threw it into the Seine as you crossed the Concorde bridge? With the fall of corbeil both the Seine and Marne were re-opened. It will also take advantage of its shallow draft by taking passengers on a cruise up France's Garonne, Gironde and Seine rivers, and the Guadalquivir to Seville in Spain. Prior to him going missing ahead of performances this month, Pete Doherty ingratiated himself with a French journalist backstage at the Rock en Seine festival in Paris. In the course of her round trip she calls at Lisbon, Seville, Vigo, Bordeaux and Rouen, so you get to sail on the rivers Tagus, Guadalquivir, Gironde, Garonne and Seine. In the Rue de Seine he met Planchet, who had stopped before the house of a pastry cook, and was contemplating with ecstasy a cake of the most appetizing appearance. Find more words! 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