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Scheldt

noun

A river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea. Synonym: Scheldt River.

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"Scheldt" Quotes from Famous Books

... conversations were also held with Belgium, that plans had been concerted to invade Belgium with an army of 100,000 men by way of three French ports—viz., Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne—and that the British plans even considered a landing by way of the Scheldt, thus violating ...

— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

... a war more just; never one the result of which could bring such happiness as must this, even for the conquered. In order that that spirit might conquer we were obliged to forge the mightiest weapons for it. Over the meadows of the Scheldt is wafted the ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... Arethusa was after her. A steamer was coming down, men on the paddle-box shouted hoarse warnings, the stevedore and his porters were bawling from the quay. But in a stroke or two the canoes were away out in the middle of the Scheldt, and all steamers, and stevedores, and other 'long-shore vanities ...

— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson

Words linked to "Scheldt" : France, Belgium, Scheldt River, river, Belgique, Kingdom of Belgium, French Republic