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Meanings of dam the river in English

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Usage of dam the river in English
1
Don't dam the river now, rich man.
A Day Dark as Night
2
Run with your eyes open and your mouth shut and dam the river rushing up behind your eyes.
Unravel Me
3
If so, did it dam the river back into another inland sea, and then wear down into that red perpendicular gorge we remember so well?
The Last of the Plainsmen
4
It stretched quite across the valley, and at one time dammed the river up.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
5
This gigantic central feature of the estate took 15 years to create by damming the river Poulter.
The Guardian
6
The Germans had dammed the river Douve, and it had flooded some of the fields and old Battalion Headquarters.
The Great War As I Saw It
7
It was a clever concealment, contrived by damming the river above and arranging a new outlet controlled by flood-gates.
The Romance of Elaine / Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
8
We have dammed the river.
My Life and Work
9
Can't we all agree that simply not damming the river and not quarrying the mountain is far too small a step to take?
Rock and Ice Magazine
10
Indeed, Arabian historians affirm that in the tenth century the Ethiopians dammed the river, and, for a whole year, cut off its waters from Egypt.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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