Tree reflecting banks
A river lined on both sides with tree-covered banks, reflected in the water and in each other.  As you follow...
Reed-fringed banks
An image of lazy summer afternoons messing about on rivers.
Source: Arthur Ransome, Coot Club (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009 (1934)),...
Lime-green river
In the context of Gormenghast, this intriguing river colour would unlikely be a sign of toxic effluent or bloom, so...
Brook-watered valleys
A lovely image. Having spent childhood holidays among cousins in the countryside of Derbyshire, I remember days spent building stepping...
Like a broken viper
A wildly meandering river likened to a viper broken by a buzzard - Williamson's inventiveness is a wonder, and almost...
Ice-choked rivers
A European would normally use ‘choked’ to describe a river full of algae or weeds or pollution. ‘Ice-choked’ gives a...
The Nile as sapphire
A fortuitous phrase to describe the Nile's blue tracery through a dry landscape, like a life-giving vein.
God’s royal artery
A compelling way to single out a great river and to map the world's waterways - as so many veins...
The liberating influence of a river
I like the idea of a river's motion and indefinite length as being liberating. But I'm pondering corresponding aspects of...
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