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Use in Literature

Saskatchewan

Spring had come suddenly, as it does on the high Saskatchewan plains, and he was conscious of a strange, bracing but vaguely disturbing quality in the keen air.–Harold Bindloss in The Girl From Keller's.

Mary's River, which is one of the tributaries of the Saskatchewan, in British America.–Noah Brooks in First Across the Continent.

We sent out a letter to every Councilor in Manitoba and Saskatchewan showing the weakness of its culverts.–Business Correspondence

For some moments after Keith had finished, he stood with his back to the man who he thought was Conniston, and his mind was swiftly adding twos and twos and fours and fours as he looked away into the green valley of the Saskatchewan.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

Four years along the rim of the Arctic had made it possible for him to drink to the full the glory of early summer along the Saskatchewan.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

From the summit of the hill he could no longer make out the valley of the Saskatchewan. He walked down into a pit in which the scattered lights of the town burned dully like distant stars.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

He would have a place like this out there in the mystery of the trackless mountains, where the Saskatchewan was born.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

It's a job for the greenest rookie in the service, and yet I swear that there isn't another man in Saskatchewan to whom I would talk as I am about to talk to you.–James Oliver Curwood in Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.

Prince Albert and the Saskatchewan were thirty miles to the south and east of him.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

That home he and his father had planned, and they had overseen the building of it, a chateau of logs a little distance from the town, with the Saskatchewan sweeping below it and the forest at its doors.–James Oliver Curwood in The River's End.

• Preface iii
• Use in Literature 1
• Saskatchewan 1
• Nonfiction Usage 3
• Journalism Usage 3
• Legal Usage 4
• Governmental Usage 4
• Bibliographic Usage 5
• Encyclopedic Usage 322
• Lexicographic Usage 350
• Index 410