Dalles
Usage examples for Dalles:
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The
Columbia
is
a
mile
wide
in
some
places,
but
it
narrows
at
the
Dalles
or
shelves
and
pours
over
the
stone
steps
the
gathered
force
of
its
many
tides
and
streams.
"The Log School-House on the Columbia", Hezekiah Butterworth.
-
As
I
was
anxious
to
make
the
Dalles
that
night,
so
as
to
get
away
for
an
early
start
on
the
following
morning,
he
readily
agreed
to
join
me
for
the
run
and
dinner
at
the
hotel.
"Down the Columbia", Lewis R. Freeman.
-
We
crossed
the
Plains
all
right
and
got
to
the
Dalles
"Two Years in Oregon", Wallis Nash.
-
There
slid
across
the
floor
with
the
silent
feet
of
the
savage
the
tiny
figure
of
a
little
child,
perhaps
four
years
of
age,
with
coal-
black
hair
and
beady
eyes,
clad
in
all
the
bequilled
finery
that
a
trading-
post
could
furnish-
a
little
orphan
child,
as
I
learned
later,
whose
parents
had
both
been
lost
in
a
canoe
accident
at
the
Dalles
"54-40 or Fight", Emerson Hough.