At the end of half an hour the whole river picked itself up and began to move.
Now during dry summers the dam can nearly block the whole river.
Say, you must have turned a whole river of them loose!
Sometimes we'd have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time.
We could do that because in the spring season the whole river is open to fishing.
Soon it seemed the whole river was full of dolphins racing down the current.
Ain't like it used to be when you had the whole river to fish on.
It seemed silly, like a pebble turning the course of a whole river.
This meant that no single steamboat could run up the whole river.
On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical.