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Rivers: Durme, Belgium; Adra, Spain; Adranos, Turkey; Dranse, Switzerland; Durance, France; Vaal, Africa.
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* '''Durme:''' river in Belgium
  
Dreamed a trance in durance veil.
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* '''Adra:''' river in Spain
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* '''Adranos:''' river in Turkey
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* '''Dranse:''' Swiss name for the Durance
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* '''Durance:''' river in France
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* '''durance vile:'''  a long prison sentence. Robert Burns, "Esopus to Maria": "“In durance vile here must I wake and weep, /And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
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* '''durance:''' a stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments
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* '''Vaal:''' river in South Africa
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* '''vale:''' valley
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* '''Dreamed a trance in durance veil''' (though a veil would hardly be an appropriate use for durance cloth)
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[[Category: Rivers]]

Latest revision as of 12:55, 8 July 2012

  • Durme: river in Belgium
  • Adra: river in Spain
  • Adranos: river in Turkey
  • Dranse: Swiss name for the Durance
  • Durance: river in France
  • durance vile: a long prison sentence. Robert Burns, "Esopus to Maria": "“In durance vile here must I wake and weep, /And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”
  • durance: a stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments
  • Vaal: river in South Africa
  • vale: valley
  • Dreamed a trance in durance veil (though a veil would hardly be an appropriate use for durance cloth)