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Orne is a department in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

Orne (river)

The Orne (Ptolemeus Olina) is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France. It discharges into the English Channel at the port of Ouistreham. Its source is in Aunou-sur-Orne, east of Sées. Its main tributaries are the Odon and the Rouvre.

The Orne flows through the following departments and towns:

  • Orne (named after the river): Sées, Argentan
  • Calvados: Thury-Harcourt, Caen, Ouistreham
Orne (Moselle)

The Orne is a river in Lorraine, north-eastern France, which is a left tributary of the Moselle and sub-tributary of the Rhine. Its source is in the hills northeast of Verdun. It flows east and joins the Moselle near Mondelange, between Metz and Thionville.

Orne (disambiguation)

Orne is the name of a political region in France. It may also refer to:

  • Orne (river), a river in Normandy, northwestern France
  • Orne (Moselle), a river in Lorraine, northeastern France
  • Ornes, commune in the Meuse department in Lorraine in northeastern France

Usage examples of "orne".

The priests of Amel begin to stir up public sentiment against the I-A, and as they expect, Orne is sent to stop them.

Orne, killed, after a battle of nearly forty hours, a marine monster whose size and aspect produced the greatest possible stir in scientific circles and caused certain Boston naturalists to take every precaution for its taxidermic preservation.

He reminded Orne of a priest back on Chargon -- another Amel graduate.

He reminded Orne of a priest back on Chargon -- another Amel graduate.

The plan called for paratroopers to dominate the heights northeast of Caen, hold the bridges over the Orne and the Caen Canal, demolish five more on the Dives River and thus block enemy forces, particularly panzers, from driving into the side of the invasion bridgehead.

Some pilots, caught in heavy cloud, mistook the mouth of the Dives for that of the Orne and let men out over a maze of marshes and swamps.

Willett asked to see the mystic documents, Ward displayed much reluctance and tried to put him off with such things as photostatic copies of the Hutchinson cipher and Orne formulae and diagrams.

Willett now unmistakably recognised from the photostatic copies of the Orne formulae which Charles had once shown him.

Then she met the Maine writer Sarah Orne Jewett, who encouraged her to write about a more familiar geographical region and to develop her own style.

Orne shook his head, thought: Now'd be a great time to get religion and bow down to Ullua, the star wanderer of the Ayrbs.

In the area to the rear, Reyd Orne and Merlin Friet were working amid a tangle of instrumentation wiring sprouting from where the outer metal cladding had been removed from the original Valkyrie array—about the size of a regular door but thicker, mounted horizontally in a steel frame wreathed in tubes and power cabling.

Faking her hand, he ducked down the side of the building, Wre a narrow stone alleyway, overshadowed by the twelve*ey warehouses on either side of it, led to steps and to the Ornes.