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Angrily the Rappahannock rushed southward, full-banked and impassable for troops.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Angrily the Rappahannock rushed southward, full-banked and impassable for troops.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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Angrily the Rappahannock rushed south-ward, full-banked and impassable for troops.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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The long stone slides were glistening wet, and the brooks ran full-banked, noisy and turbulent and roily.
The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905
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It was no wonder at all that they both broke into a clean run, and that they did not halt again until they stood in the edge of a second grove not far from the margin of the full-banked stream of water which wound down from the mountains and ran across that plateau.
The Talking Leaves An Indian Story William Osborn Stoddard 1880
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The dry and dusty bed of a forgotten brook had reappeared, a full-banked river, crossing the turnpike and compelling a long detour before the traveler could ford it.
Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869
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