"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates."
The Tigris–Euphrates river system is a large river system in West Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf. Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries.
The Tigris–Euphrates river system is a large river system in West Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf. Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries.
View all quotes by Tigris–Euphrates river system"Tigris! Torrent of four thousand years, Millions, men of war sucking at your strength, Living in holes at your side, Agape as you broke bridges, sent ferrymen adrift! How many armies sought to cross you here, How muezzins lived and died, call’d to prayer; Yet you seemed aloof to all their striving, Your ripples looked indifferent to their stares, Their drinking, marching, gravities."
Tigris–Euphrates river system"My guides, sniffing the air like dogs, led me from crumbling room to room, saying, This is jessamine, this violet, this rose. But at last Dahoum drew me: Come and smell the very sweetest scent of all, and we went into the main lodging, to the gaping window sockets of its eastern face, and there drank with open mouths of the effortless, empty, eddyless wind of the desert, throbbing past. That slow breath had been born somewhere beyond the distant Euphrates and had dragged its way across many days and nights of dead grass, to its first obstacle, the man-made walls of our broken palace."
Tigris–Euphrates river system"Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin."
Tigris–Euphrates river system