Word: confluent
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Between teaching and scholarship there is in principle no confluent whatever, since teaching is a manifestation of scholarship, and scholarship a condition of teaching...
...desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...admirable combination of artistic and photographic effects. The model of the glacier represents a mountainous district with much variety and detail of structure and form, including two lofty gathering basins, where the snow is accumulated and converted into ice, and from which two unequal ice streams creep down, becoming confluent in a single valley further on. The various features of the scene are reproduced with great faithfulness, from the bergschrunds at the foot of the snow slides, to the seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they are derived. Below...