river-flat

He opened his eyes and looked out the windows at the flattened landscape slowly dragging alongside the turnpike-brush-lined riverbanks and ledges of condos, freight cars stacked and lined like old shoeboxes, river-flat refineries, and, across the gray slick of water, the brick, steel and glass anthill of the city.

The Zero Walter, Jess 2006

Like cows let loose in a huge river-flat pasture, they browsed contentedly across the eastern half of Italian Gaul-across-the-Padus, surrounded by so much agricultural and pastoral plenty that they took no heed of the exhortations of their king.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

The first night we camped at Bridge Creek on a river-flat.

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Down below the town, on the river-flat, the old timers were getting together.

The Second Chance 1910

Down below the town, on the river-flat, the old timers were getting together.

The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

A hundred yards in front of the ranch house all was holy peace, peace in the stilled air, peace dreaming along the neighbouring hills and lying like a benediction over the wide river-flat below me, through which the stream wove a shining course.

Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Not since the long-gone night on the river-flat across from Nauvoo had tears wet his eyes.

The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

And if, as he hulked across the sage-covered river-flat sending the scared Antelope skimming like birds before him, he was faced perchance, by some burly Range-bull, too young to be wise and too big to be afraid, Wahb smashed his skull with one blow of that giant paw, and served him as the Range-cow would have served himself long years ago.

The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

In late summer the berry-bushes along the river-flat are laden with fruit, and in autumn the pine woods gave good chances to fatten for the winter.

The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

And if, as he hulked across the sage-covered river-flat sending the scared Antelope skimming like birds before him, he was faced perchance, by some burly

The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Thompson Seton 1903