What is "severn"

Usage examples of "severn".

Yarranton found out a vast quantity of Roman cinders, near the walls of the city of Worcester, from whence he and others carried away many thousand tons or loads up the river Severn, unto their iron-furnaces, to be melted down into iron, with a mixture of the Forest of Dean iron-stone.

They used to stick us in catboats and make us whip back and forth on the Severn and learn knots and rigs and spars.

The resident, Cliff Severn, reached around delicately to remove the cervical collar after making sure the head was secured by sandbags.

December 1232 -/he snow came early but grudgingly that year, filming over the meadows by Severn so thinly that the dormant grasses showed through in pale and frosty green.

She launched into a sprightly description of a masquerade she had attended a week earlier, and although Hero might be extremely young and unversed in the ways of spoiled beauties, she could not but recognize that Miss Milborne’s reason for introducing this topic lay in the circumstance of her having been gallanted to this party by his Grace of Severn.

Out of Severn they could not get, for the wind was westerly, and the tide setting eastward, so at last they brought up in the lee of the two holms, and there furled sail and lay at anchor.

He also sketched out a hydraulic system for locks on the Severn canal.

He stood on the edge of the overhanging bank between the pollarded willows, at the spot where he had found Ailnoth’s body, the pool widening and shallowing on his right hand into the reed beds below the highway, and on his left gradually narrowing to the deeper stream that carried the water back to the brook, and shortly thereafter to the Severn.

There was no hesitation and no apology in his demeanour even though his warriors had raided Tewdric's land again and again, just as they had raided south across the Severn Sea to harass Uther's country.

Beyond that, emerald water meadows filled a great bend in the Severn, open and treeless.

He looked up from the wide water-meadows, eastwards across the silvery pools the Severn had left in every dimple after the spring floods, across the broad main stream of the river with its faint, drifting wreaths of mist, to the black hog-back of the Long Mountain, indented in half a dozen places along its vast, forested flank by the seamed valleys where brooks flowed down to join the Severn.

Severn was hardly higher than its summer level yet, they splashed through it and threaded the silver pools in the water-meadows beyond.