Crossword-Solution: SAMBRE 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Sambre turned so industriously to and fro among his little hills, that it was past six before we drew near the lock at Quartes.

The young moon outside shone very clearly over Pont-sur-Sambre, and down upon the ale-house where all we pedlars were abed.

The children who played together to-day by the Sambre and Oise Canal, each at his own father’s threshold, when and where might they next meet? For some time past the subject of barges had occupied a great deal of our talk, and we had projected an old age on the canals of Europe.

They had sought to get a _Hollandais_ last winter in Rouen (Rouen? thought I; and is this whole mansion, with its dogs and birds and smoking chimneys, so far a traveller as that? and as homely an object among the cliffs and orchards of the Seine as on the green plains of Sambre?)—they had sought to get a _Hollandais_ last winter in Rouen; but these cost fifteen francs apiece—picture it—fifteen francs! ‘_Pour un tout petit oiseau_—For quite a little bird,’ added the husband.

One of the Emperor's carriages had been picked up at Charleroi, and we halted now on the other side of the Sambre, and dismounted from our horses.