| 单词 | tideway |
| 例句 | Enough of such guarantees and Mr Osborne will be able to pronounce the tideway tunnel one of 40 priority projects to spearhead a multibillion-pound infrastructure boost – without increasing public borrowing at all. Thames Water – a private equity plaything that takes us for fools 2012-11-11T00:06:46Z The Shasta's bows swung seaward a little further, and both vessels swept up the tideway toward the deadly slope of stone. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z This sudden apparition which had approached noiselessly over the soft marshes, was plainly outlined against the surrounding wildness of salt-marsh and tideway. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z The word "amateur" seems to be adrift upon the same bewildering tideway as the words "angler" and "angling." The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z Nor do the leading amateur tideway clubs allow their juniors to race on them in club matches. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The Pelikan, being not under control, had been turned adrift with the object of fouling and seriously damaging the British vessels lying in the strong tideway. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z He could see the white smear of tideway that streamed around the head, and the gray wall of rock seemed forging back toward him through the midst of it. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Thornton was laboring ahead like a wherry in a tideway. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z Twenty years before, the Danes had sailed in force up the Shannon and fortified the island at the head of the tideway which is now the oldest part of Limerick. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The trial heats of this regatta were rowed in stretches of about three miles each, following the tide over different parts of the tideway. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The separate peaks rise tumultuously, like the rip of seas in a tideway, without connection, solitary, sombre. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Even on the tideway sculls should be as light as a good scull-maker can turn them out, so long as they retain their stiffness. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z The older men in the group were instrumental in reviving tideway rowing after the second world war and were a driving force behind initiatives for sculling, the discipline that uses two oars instead of one. Tony Fox obituary 2010-10-04T17:08:00Z The most beautiful portion of the river lies between Lough Derg, at whose lower end stands the ancient town of Killaloe, and Limerick, which marks the limit of the tideway. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Five-and-thirty years ago it was a rarity to see even a scratch amateur eight on the tideway, so much had London rowing gone downhill. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The galley at last drew up under the counter of a large ship of foreign rig, lying in the tideway off Tilbury Hope. The Great Mogul This certainly sounded all right, for I knew how diabolical the tideways can be round these islands. The Spy in Black Meon’s people could not bring a boat across for some hours; even so it was ticklish work among the rocks in that tideway. Rewards and Fairies So smooth were her polished sides that it was impossible to hold on to her, for she rolled about like a slippery porpoise in a tideway. Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. In these days Thames are rivals with London for the pick of the rowing talent of the tideway, and each acts as a stimulus to the other. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Neutral colours were painted on her topside; the boats were gone and dangling boat-falls streamed alongside in the tideway. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The ill-omened tideway was on its best behaviour; but even so, there was a constant gentle roll as the oily swell swung in from the Atlantic. The Spy in Black I could see nothing of the boat; doubtless it had passed out of sight behind a string of barges that lay in the tideway. The Red Symbol He succeeded, however, in laying hold of the half-drowned man, and, striking with him from out the perilous tideway into an eddy, with a Herculean effort he regained the quay. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. The tideway was churned up by steamers, rowing from Westminster was no longer the pleasant sport which it had been, and railway facilities for suburban rowing had hardly developed. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Many break adrift and surge in the tideways, moving as the set of the current takes them. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The idle loungers in the summer saw a man and boat lingering in the tideway, apparently watching the gliding waves without casting a net or looking at the wildfowl. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) They were the great officers' signals for their barges that the men blew, and the whistle signified that these lay at readiness in the tideway. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Upon him drifted Mrs. Worthington, like a peony in the tideway. Love and Lucy The tideway is always a drawback to scenery, but Barnes always used to produce good audiences and good competitors. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z The wide river, so lately clear of shipping, seems now narrowed to the breadth of a canal by the huge proportions of the liners bringing up in the tideway. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war I was beating windward across the steep waves of a tideway. A Padre in France You see, Mr. Geen, plovers don't shed their feathers hereabouts in the summer months; and a feather floating on a tideway doesn't, as a rule, keep moored to one place. Merry-Garden and Other Stories It was just possible to make out the big ship as she weighed anchor and, rolling and plunging, moved slowly out into the tideway. The Windy Hill Its fortunes hang on the Kingston Rowing Club, but it is well patronised by tideway clubs. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z He doubled up like a jackknife, fell back against the gangway gate, which had not been properly fastened, and shot through it into the tideway, here very swift, and disappeared. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Hands went to the freeing of the sails, and the tiller swung round to bring the vessel out of the backwater beneath the cliff into the full run of the tideway. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea One related to a matter which now belongs to naval archæology,—"backing and filling in a tideway," by a ship under sail. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life It is like the waters of the Nile or the Mississippi, turbulent in the great tideways, and heavy with the coloring matter of the soil it has washed for thousands of miles. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy University men produce far fewer good watermen than the tideway clubs, and with good reason. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z After tea Mr. Benny always withdrew to a little office overhanging the tideway; a wooden, felt-roofed shed in which he earned money from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. by writing letters for seamen. Shining Ferry It is said that about two centuries earlier there had been a monastery at Nursling nearer the mouth of the Test, and on the tideway of the river. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda Cowper gives interest to the flat meadows of the Ouse; and Crabbe, a botanist and lover of natural history, paints with unrivalled fidelity and force the flat shores and tideways of his native East Anglia. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century “There, there!” said Nellie, pointing out some dark objects that could be seen tumbling about in the tideway some distance off the starboard quarter. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Its chief patrons were tideway clubs and the Kingston Rowing Club. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z He was a gigantic creature, and Robin and he, slowly forging towards each other through the surrounding sea of faces, looked like two liners in a tideway. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Unencumbered by luggage or plans, Mr Francis Beveridge stuck his hands deep in his pockets and strolled aimlessly enough out of the station into the tideway of the Euston Road. The Lunatic at Large Hushed though the voices were, each word fell distinct on her ear as the boats drew near and passed up the tideway. The Mayor of Troy Almost all were more or less "sulky" as soon as they felt the strong tideway, and the huge Ironsides lay a helpless, useless log, half an hour after going into action. Border and Bastille On the tideway in sculling matches, it is usual for pilots to conduct scullers. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Then how are the fisheries in the estuary and just above tideway to be valued? Essays in Natural History and Agriculture The weight of the lead was 9 lbs., and the tubs, being lashed longitudinally together, rolled in a tideway unfettered, being anchored by the usual lines and heavy stones. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 The Major, still waving his sword, was lifted by the crowd's pressure and swept along like a chip in a tideway. The Mayor of Troy Having firmly resolved to be unflinchingly just to a Vincent Farley, one could afford to be humanely interested in the struggles shoreward or seaward of a poor swimmer in the welter of the tideway. The Quickening University men and tideway amateurs, also professionals so far as we can gather, seem not to have heard of, or at least not to have heeded, the experiment. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z She had a small, snug cabin, was well-found as to gear, and was equipped with a sturdy single-cylinder gas engine to kick her along through calm and tideway. Burned Bridges I plunged in and very soon found myself caught in a tideway so violent that resistance to its force, so as either to get on or return, appeared at the moment hopeless.* Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 They bring the charge near to the ship's bottom, but are difficult to manage in a tideway, and can be easily found by dragging. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 The foredoomed smack was almost like a buoy in a tideway; the sea came over her, screaming as it met her resistance, like the back-draught among pebbles. A Dream of the North Sea These, of course, will be found in our tideways as small grilse, weighing one or two pounds, in April and May. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 When the Curlew was seen to capsize a loud shriek rent the air, for all knew that to be cast into that dreadful tideway meant almost certain death. The Pilots of Pomona The first has been the canalisation, the fencing in of the tideways; the second has been the banking out of the general sea. Hills and the Sea Those creatures'--she pointed with her left hand at the prisoners swaying like seaweed in a tideway as the circuit pulled them--'those people have friends and wives and children in the city and elsewhere. A Diversity of Creatures So without climbing out from under the high banks of the creek he splashed out into the tideway, and started back. A Thane of Wessex A wind came roaring down some tideway of the air like water in a flume. D'Ri and I The children watched it sink until only the antlers showed above water like a forked bough adrift on the tideway. True Tilda Silently, with none to heed and none to know, was enacted again in the gloom the play that is as old as the first ship upon tideway. Virginia: the Old Dominion Meon's people could not bring a boat across for some hours; even so it was ticklish work among the rocks in that tideway. Rewards and Fairies There it stands, accordingly, full in the tideway; driven in, with hard taps, like some strong stake for the noose of a cable, the swirl of the current roundabout it. The Ambassadors Underneath the airy decking of the bridge a tug went puffing by, her port and starboard lamps trailing red and green threads over the tideway. The Haunted Bookshop Besides the estuary fish which naturally come up river, dace and roach began to come down into the tideway, and during the whole summer the lively little bleak swarmed round Chiswick Eyot. The Naturalist on the Thames Keep," they said, "the old traditions, and we know you will not shame us When you try the stormy tideway in your zephyrs and your shorts. The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch A puzzled angry murmur arose, confused and chopped, like cross currents in a tideway. The Sign at Six We boys did as we were bid, drawing the skiff well up clear of the tideway. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories The Rip-raps was the name of a race or tideway on the Campeachy coast; he had often told me about it, and I had remembered the name because it was such a queer one. Jim Davis Among the happiest results of the modern feeling about birds is the conversion of the whole of the Thames above the tideway into a "protected area." The Naturalist on the Thames By chance one of the party glanced towards the spot where they had landed, and saw half a dozen vigorous gins endeavouring to haul the boat above tideway. Tropic Days We came at last to a little river, or rather tideway, leading from the lagoon to the sea, which goes by the name of Doubloon River. At Last Warrington, swaying precariously over the edge, held tight by the loin-cloth, depending on it as a yacht in a tideway would to three hundred pounds of iron. The Winds of the World The sea is constantly agitated, and ships suffer at once by the violence of the wind, the tideways, and the bad anchorage. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 They were sitting on a shelving rock that jutted into the tideway, and at his feet his kindly plank bumped gently in an eddy of the current. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell The general course of the Kennedy River runs in this line, and from the head of the tideway to the north-west coast the breadth of land does not exceed six miles. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland When a storm comes on the Shetland fisherman makes for land, although it is in approaching it that he meets with the dangerous tideways in which the shipwrecks of his comrades have usually taken place. Second Shetland Truck System Report Meanwhile the victors stood like rocks in the tideway. Bob, Son of Battle He rolled forward majestically to the turn-table, and swung like a man-of-war in a tideway, till he picked up his track. The Day's Work - Volume 1 It lay open to the south, guarded on either side by a precipitous headland, and withdrawn from the tideway and the swell of the western ocean. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell The Great West Wind Drift, setting squarely into the teeth of the easterly gale, kicked up a tideway sea that was monstrous. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The points of inrush, the tideways of these Pandour Deluges seem to be mainly three. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 From the broad windows he could see the whole shining tideway of Fifth Avenue, passing lazily in the warm sunlight. Where the Blue Begins But that might have occurred through want of careful tending in a tideway. The Mirror of the Sea |
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