They run without legs

Usage examples of rivers.

Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas that provided enough moisture for trees were the only intrusions into the essential grassy character of the northern lands during the Ice Age.

But with the horses, they could cross many smaller watercourses with little more than a splash or two, and even big rivers posed far less difficulty.

The hills of the uplands, that were graduating into higher foothills as they approached the mountains to the west, were crossed with the deeply cut narrow valleys of rivers they had to cross.

Some days Jondalar felt that they spent so much time going up and down, they made little progress forward, but the valleys offered sheltered campsites out of the wind, and the rivers supplied the necessary water in a land that was otherwise dry.

They were from animals that had died of natural causes, gathered from wherever they happened to fall on the steppes or, most often, from accumulated piles that had been swept up by flooding rivers and deposited at certain bends or barriers in the river, like driftwood.

People tend to live near fresh water, rivers or lakes, not out in the open.

Their boats were used primarily to get themselves and their possessions across waterways, whether small tributaries or the rivers that swept down, continent-wide, from the glaciers of the north to the inland seas of the south.

But before reaching the end of her course, the fine gritty soil settled out into an immense fan-shaped deposit, a mud-clogged wilderness of low islands and banks surrounded by shallow lakes and winding streams, as though the Great Mother of rivers was so exhausted from her long journey that she dropped her heavy load of silt just short of her destination, then staggered slowly to the sea.

Whinney would have to wear the harness and drag it constantly, but it was Jondalar who realized that it would actually make crossing rivers easier.

Racer was uneasy about rivers since his frightening adventure, but Jondalar had been very patient about guiding the sensitive young animal across the smaller waterways they had met, and the horse was overcoming his fear.

It pleased the man, since many more rivers would have to be crossed before they reached his home.

Even nervous Wolf, who disliked crossing rivers, showed no hesitation as he paddled around in the lake.

After turning away from the bountiful Mother of rivers, his concerns returned, and the changing countryside made him think about the landscape ahead.

Even if there were many more rivers ahead, they could certainly get across them without the boat, and it was slowing them down.

With deeper rivers, we can lift the pack baskets to their backs, instead of letting them hang down.