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"Traversable" Quotes from Famous Books

... second shock on the Tagliamento was not possible. The river itself quickly became, as the rain stopped and the waters fell, too easily traversable an obstacle to be worth fortifying. The line which it would have imposed upon the Italian army was, moreover, too long to be held in the depth desirable for resistance to the attack of superior numbers. So the Tagliamento was occupied ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

... more important. Who can estimate the amount, or the value, of the augmentation of the commerce of the world that has resulted from America? Who can imagine to himself what would now be the shock to the Eastern Continent, if the Atlantic were no longer traversable, or if there were no longer American ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... a swamp known as Little Niggerwool, to distinguish it from Big Niggerwool, which lay across the river. It was traversable only by those who knew it well—an oblong stretch of tawny mud and tawny water, measuring maybe four miles its longest way and two miles roughly at its widest; and it was full of cypress and stunted swamp oak, with edgings of canebrake and rank weeds; ...

— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb

... traversable, penetrable; tolerable, mediocre, middling, so-so, ordinary, fair. Antonyms: impassable, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... and guided her swiftly through the underbrush back of the tent. Her face was scratched by the bushes that swung back as the half-naked Indian glided ahead of her, but, in almost miraculous fashion, she found a traversable path opened. Torn and bleeding, she flung herself behind a rock, just as a shout from the camp told that her disappearance had been discovered. There was a crashing of pursuers through the underbrush, but a gun roared a warning, almost in ...

— Mystery Ranch • Arthur Chapman

Words linked to "Traversable" : travelable