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Rhine

[ rahyn ]

noun

  1. Joseph Banks, 1895–1980, U.S. psychologist: pioneer in parapsychology.
  2. German Rhein. French Rhin [r, a, n]. Dutch Rijn. a river flowing from SE Switzerland through Germany and the Netherlands into the North Sea: branches off into the Waal, Lek, and IJssel in its lower course. 820 miles (1,320 km) long.


Rhine

/ raɪn /

noun

  1. a river in central and W Europe, rising in SE Switzerland: flows through Lake Constance north through W Germany and west through the Netherlands to the North Sea. Length: about 1320 km (820 miles) Dutch nameRijn French nameRhinrɛ̃ German nameRhein


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He never saw the Rhine, or Bonn—or, indeed, Eleonore von Breuning—again.

The towns and cities of the lower Rhine were at their mercy.

He would certainly have taken a last look at the Rhine, expecting to see it again in six months or a year.

In October 1792 the French Revolutionary Army invaded German territory and marched towards the Rhine.

On the fourth night the group broke out and swam 400 yards across the Rhine.

Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.

To travelers blessed with golden sunshine, the Rhine may wear a grander, nobler aspect, and to such I leave it.

The best of his works are his sunset and moonlight scenes and his views of the Rhine and other rivers.

Fig. 28 shows one of the wrought iron arches of a bridge over the Rhine at Coblenz.

So they came to the great stone castle of the Crestons, set upon a mountain-top overlooking the valley of this "American Rhine."

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