This upheaval - the consequences of which have been felt even within the historic period, by the drainage of the formerly impracticable marshes of Novgorod and at the head of the Gulf of Finland - together with the destruction of forests (which must be considered, however, as a quite subordinate cause), contributes towards a decrease of precipitation over Russia and towards increased shallowness of her rivers.   anvd [Please select]

There is no surer indication of shallowness than the desire to read only about pleasant subjects and characters and events.   anvd [Please select]

Undoubtedly she had laughed; and, measuring his depth,--or his shallowness,--had determined to use him to her ends.   anvd [Please select]

She felt the hollowness, the shallowness, the emptyness of it all in comparison with that which is divinely committed to womankind.   anvd [Please select]

Her shallowness soothed him; her inconsequent egotism helped him to forget himself.   anvd [Please select]

They could not understand that I have not the necessary qualifications for itthe kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness necessary for the position.   anvd [Please select]

Susan Drummond and her father are not to desecrate the Towers with their commonplaceness, their shallowness, and vulgarity.   anvd [Please select]

Her flippancy, her shallowness left Laura for a minute in doubt as to how she should accept her words.   anvd [Please select]

Hume was the first to seek to rise above this unspeakable shallowness.   anvd [Please select]

--To-day we advanced very slowly, owing to the shallowness of the water, and crossed a number of portages.   anvd [Please select]

Our progress now became a little more interrupted by portages and small lakes, or rather ponds, through which we sometimes passed with difficulty, owing to the shallowness of the water in many places.   anvd [Please select]