His feet ground on the shifting shingle, then he halted by the boat and looked about the dark, cold waters of the sluggish river.

The old man stopped the vehicle at an isolated bend of the sluggish river to their right.

A long, sluggish river that someone had dubbed the Zambezi ran from north to south a little to the west of the plain's centre line.

The trade routes of half the Disc pass through the city or down its rather sluggish river.

We peered into the darkness below us, broken only by the ripply light reflecting from the sluggish river.

The next was a bridge over a small, sluggish river.

Below him flowed a wide and sluggish river.

Travel would be slow on a fat, sluggish river like this.

The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.

Then came the resurgence, into a basin, which emptied itself into a sluggish river.