| 单词 | dam up |
| 例句 | When the Portuguese dammed up the Zambezi, it pushed water back up the mouth of the Musengezi, widened it, and made it a dangerous place to sail. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That night Fayge began to speak, as if the words so long dammed up had risen to flood. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “What I was thinking about was not a mill, but electricity. If I could build that dam up a few feet higher—there’s a good flow of water. It could run a small generator.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t know of any dam up the river.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The Portuguese dammed up the river and flooded the whole valley. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The words spill out of me, a tumbling river I've dammed up for too long. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “It’s a . . . well a little dam up the river he knows about,” I said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But his fathering style wasn’t the type that celebrated a high-spirited child who needed channelling rather than being dammed up. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z As its name suggests, this border river has historically flowed with blood — not this peaceable, lucrative commerce, which the ruling threatens to dam up. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z He's the maestro of menace, but you always feel there's an ocean of sorrow dammed up behind those dark, hooded eyes. Top 23 character actors in film 2013-04-12T15:00:00Z “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” Terry McMillan remembers the book that spoke to her one summer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But by some miracle, after all this time, “there is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul nor lurking behind my eyes”, as Hurston said, as I appraise my body, its deeply hued edges. I am not your exotic unicorn: going on Tinder as a queer, dark-skinned black woman 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z They were building dams up and down the Missouri, and every Indian reservation along the way was flooded. The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Neither group has contact with the other until a few humans, seeking to restart a hydroelectric dam up in the forest, encounter a hairier host of primates. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Neither group knows of the other until a few humans, seeking to restart a hydroelectric dam up in the forest, encounter a hairier host of primates. Ape-ocalypse Now in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the library, time is dammed up—not just stopped but saved. Growing Up in the Library 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In “Summer of Soul,” in theaters nationwide Friday and streaming on Hulu, a musical flood, too long dammed up, is finally released. In ‘Summer of Soul,’ a lost history reborn to play loud 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, preservationists narrowly defeated a plan to dam up a couple stretches. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In 1992, five villages in Galicia, Spain were flooded on purpose when a river was dammed up to create a large reservoir. 2022 Year in Review: Nature and Climate 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z In this tension of opposites he sees an invitation to practice humility, a perspective that stands in contrast to California’s centuries-long, hubristic efforts to dam up, divert and tame rain and runoff. California's record rainstorms are a blessing, a hardship and a spiritual experience 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Few people associate urban and suburban Southern California with floods anymore, mostly because many of its rivers were dammed up or transformed into concrete gulches long ago. The Times podcast: The megaflood, next time in California 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “An integral part of the life here is the Trinity River. That changed dramatically in the 1950s when Congress chose to dam up the river,” said Mike Orcutt, fisheries director for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. Hoopa Valley tribe sues over water contracts in California 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Russian officials have warned, without evidence, that the Ukrainians plan to blow the dam up. ‘Total darkness and cold are coming’: Massive strikes hit Ukraine electrical grid 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The state has since dammed up its rivers and built bypasses to whisk floodwaters away from population centers. Why the ‘Big One’ Could Be Something Other Than an Earthquake 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The Sites project calls for the construction of two large dams up to 310 feet high, as well as nine smaller saddle dams. California drought resurrects decades-old plan for controversial Sites Reservoir 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The willow provided raw materials for beavers to dam up rivers. Reintroducing predators doesn’t always rebalance ecosystems 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z To do that, they want to dam up Homestake Creek in Eagle County south of Minturn and create a reservoir that could supply water for thousands of new homes. Front Range water demands have far-reaching impacts 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Recurrences are likely to wipe out a trout habitat that existed long before humans began damming up the Bushkill Creek for grist mills and mining limestone in nearby quarries. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Possessing limited vocabulary dams up feelings, particularly when what few words can be mustered often remain misunderstood or ignored. My sister is nonverbal but she knows the words to every song. Now we’ve made an album together | Ian Brennan 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z “You are placing something impenetrable across drainage area, so drainage will get dammed up in certain locations, and that will lead to underwash,” Zarenski said. Long-term maintenance for Trump’s border wall could cost billions, but government isn’t saying 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z “I am busy as a beaver,” says Parton, ever a master of the folksy bon mot, “and about as dammed up.” Dolly Parton for America 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The applicator built a berm to dam up the spilled manure, but estimates that up to 500 gallons reached the creek. DNR: Manure spill leads to fish kill in east-central Iowa 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z They were only temporarily dammed up, gathering destructive force before the inevitable flood. Opinion | Brexit and Trump are flailing. But the establishment shouldn’t relax yet. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “We started damming up everything in the name of flood control, power, recreation, but we destroyed a lot of beautiful countryside, businesses and people’s livelihood,” Primus said. Man flooded the town of Iola; now nature is bringing back its ghost 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z That changed after humans began to alter the Mississippi, hardening its banks and damming up the sediment-rich rivers that flowed into it. Inside race to save Louisiana’s 1st line of storm defense 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z “Then they floated logs down it, and it got dammed up.” Nature Conservancy to work with Forest Service in Wisconsin 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Consider, for instance, the old graves that moved into the public domain when the West Fork River and its tributaries were dammed up in the 1980s, creating Stonewall Jackson Lake. War hero’s gravesite at center of Supreme Court case 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Then in 1904, the state dammed up the bayou - not far north of the railroad tracks - with plans to put locks there. Historic rail project opens up Bayou Lafourche 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “We are forever in Washington, D.C., making sure they spend the dollars to keep the locks and dams up.” U.S. Opens Spigot for Lock-and-Dam Fixes, Even as Coal Traffic Dwindles 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Yawning often increases the secretion of tears because of muscular tension on the glands, which may simultaneously dam up the drainage system. Yawning and the Tears That Follow 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The landscape consists of low-lying, densely vegetated barrier islands built of sediments washed down the Mississippi long before the Army Corps of Engineers began to dam up the river. Can a Naturalist Go Fishing in Fragile Waters? [Excerpt] 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In 2005, the center pier supporting the bridge again became a choke-point where trees and other debris dammed up, flooding the casino district. Reno bids farewell to 1905 bridge made famous by divorce 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z His memories include how the men from his church, Mount Salvation Baptist, would dam up a branch of Spout Run so water would pool and create a setting for baptizing new converts. Interested in Arlington history? This is the place for you. 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z The reason the gap between the rich and the poor is bigger than ever now is because these corporate CEO billionaire beavers are damming up the flow, hoarding. Part 4: Doors Drummer John Densmore Talks About Preserving Band's Legacy 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Everything that matters is changing every minute, and any attempt to dam up that natural wave motion is a vote for Godzilla. The Truth About Company Policy, Part Two 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “There are literally tens of thousands of dams up and down the east coast—large ones, small ones—and most of them are in the Northeast,” says U.S. Glass Eel Gold Rush Casts Maine Fishermen against Scientists [Slide Show] 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Narrow straits could indeed be dammed up, as some feared the Soviets planned for the Bering Straits. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z Most of the anglers that Fateley was talking to were fishing from the dam up stream, but anglers fishing from the top end down should also be experiencing better action. Rufus Woods fishery heating up for big rainbow trout 2012-12-15T23:15:06Z He goes onstage, he’s famous, and then me; I’m just some kid from Liverpool … this little kid who used to run down the streets in Speke … collecting jam jars, damming up streams in the woods. Happy Birthday, Paul McCartney: 70 Iconic Images for 70 Years 2012-06-19T01:35:16Z They correctly inferred that this indicated a damming up of the River at some recent time. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z The thing was done easily enough, for the arm was dammed up close to the great river. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Canadian scientists repeated the oft-heard rumor that the Soviets were planning large-scale manipulation of the oceans, along with drastic modification of climate, by damming up the Bering Strait. We tried to weaponize the weather 2013-04-27T19:00:00Z After a careful examination of the locality, I concluded that I could relieve very much of the suffering by damming up the stream. Four Years A Scout and Spy 2012-02-23T03:00:37.640Z Karatayevka was situated on the slope of a hill, above a little spring-fed stream which was dammed up at the end of the village and turned a small mill. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z There are, moreover, sunken forests on both sides visible at low water, which seem plainly to indicate that at that point the river was dammed up by some great rock slide or volcanic convulsion. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z They begin by damming up the channels of about twenty yards width between the islands. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z By this wall, and the canals, which it would be necessary to dam up, any attack on the heart of Babylonia from the direction of Mesopotamia would be rendered almost impossible. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Blackmore said it had been dammed up by the slide, and that there would be all hell popping when it broke through. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z But this has only been the damming up of a stream which eventually bursts through the more violently, and carries away the dam with it. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z And then the fog dammed up the river and the water ran thru the canal. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z This particular colony had dug the canals from the pool to their pond, which was located in a bowl-like depression of the woods, and there dammed up the outlet. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z If a streamlet ran along the line, it was carefully dammed up, so as to be rendered impassible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z The sawmill was farther down on Pine Brook, where that stream widened out and was dammed up to make a waterfall. The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp 2011-09-30T02:00:20.203Z The Susquehanna overflowed, as did tributary creeks and streams dammed up with fallen trees. Flood Victims Getting Fed Up With Congress 2011-09-26T03:01:20Z This was nothing less than to dam up the water of the lake for a little space, so that we might cut a passage through the side of it towards our hut. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z "Everybody thought that you dammed up the narrow channels." Fat Molecule May Cause 'Water on the Brain' 2011-09-07T19:00:00Z Let your topographers go out and find some other stream to dam up. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z Your prow will soon be fast in the mud, your vessel's sides will scrape the river's banks, your boat will dam up the waters of the Hudson, and all the surrounding country will be inundated! Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z It was full of turbid water which lipped to the very brim, and the clay which dammed up the broken wall was sodden and dripping. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z The village of Wolf’s Glow was distant about a mile and a quarter from the old willow tree whose fall had dammed up the brook and caused the marsh. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The fourth was a powerful glacier, with a discharging face of blue three miles long, closing up a valley and damming up a lake about four miles long and one mile wide. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The road had served as a storm-water drain, converting the two wheel furrows into running streams, and I, rolled in my blankets, had dammed up one of them. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z At other times, owing to the bursting out of thaw water which has been dammed up at the top of the cliff, large landslides are caused which bury many hundreds of nests beneath them. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The Rh�ne is already dammed up, and tapped, and tortured, until all its rich alluvial deposits are lost to the soil of Provence. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Saw-mills were built, the streams were dammed up so as to be impassable for trout, and the trout eggs were buried under sawdust. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z Thou hast felt thy heart swelling and plunging against its bony prison, but thou hast never had it gorged and choked with the dammed up waters of bitterness, gathered through long and dreary years. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z And this compliance having the effect of damming up the stream of the maternal eloquence, the two girls sallied forth. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Amongst all this dreary waste of rock and stone, there were large patches of bright green pasture, and rushes on the level spots, formed by the damming up of the springs and mountain streams. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z But the two riper ladies, passionately preoccupied by Shoolbred, continued to dam up Ingeborg and her opposite neighbour into a stagnant and unfruitful isolation. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z They were strong and clever at fitting stones into the right place for walls, and they could dam up a stream for a fishpool or a bathing place. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z But the waters, dammed up by surrounding ridges, formed large lake basins, which were drained only by the slow excavation of “cañons” as the land rose still higher. The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants 2011-06-01T02:00:24.880Z The Guard Corps followed it as far as Dugny, and lined the Mor�e brook, which was dammed up at its mouth, and afforded useful cover for the line of investment along a considerable distance. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z The human race is so essentially social that they who endeavour to dissociate mankind, stand in much the same situation as he would do who should hope to dam up the ocean. Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century 2011-05-17T02:00:19.317Z The water and luscious grass in her dammed up the reservoirs of her vitality, would not let her respond. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z At these words it seemed as if Pomuchelskopp raised the sluice which for years and years had dammed up all his human sympathies, that he might the more fully pour them out over P�mpelhagen. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z His mind and feelings were precipitately rolled back upon their own resources, and the suddenly dammed up waters of bitterness sought vent at every avenue. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z There was mony a burn dammed up wi' dead hogs that year! The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z A vast deal of sage eloquence would thus be choked and dammed up. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Along the Bay of Biscay in France, the sand dunes formerly drifted in ridges along the shore, damming up the streams and converting what was once a forest into a pestilential marsh. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The culverts and bridges beneath the railway embankment had been dammed up so as to prevent the flood from extending westwards. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z I’ve studied their weaknesses, humored their whims, Muddled their eyesight and weakened their limbs, Bloated their faces and dammed up their veins, Rusted their joints and beclouded their brains. Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads 2011-02-13T03:00:19.390Z One might as well dam up a mountain rill with one's hands—it would simply flow over the top of them, or round about them. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z When cash-strapped clients call for a session, we turn over a few stones that are damming up their cash flow and often resolve the immediate problem with a few simple changes or action steps. How to Find Money in Your Business 2011-01-24T11:00:00Z All her eagerness for knowledge, which a feeling of spiritual isolation and aimless endeavour had dammed up within her for years, now gushed out. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z This, they could see, was constantly decreasing, and at length ended in complete stagnation, as though the water were dammed up below. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z There’s something damming up his mind, and when he gets by it he’s a roaring water, but when he doesna he’s a despizable trickle. The Little Minister But his advance was here checked, as Bayen Hu, the rebel leader, had flooded the country by damming up the course of the river. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar The rapid flow of the river, as they advanced along its bank, began to change into a more quiet current, as if some obstruction below had dammed up the water, rendering it deep and still. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The damming up of these great water courses was another cause for increasing the width of these lakes. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. Crowded together, as frogs in a pond, they had devoured every fish, every living thing dammed up along with them in the sheet of stagnant water, and were famishing. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z By the damming up of the mouths of some of the tributaries of the Skaptâ, many villages were completely overflowed with water, and thus great destruction of property was caused. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology A pretty brook runs in front of the Battery which the boys have dammed up to make deep enough for a pleasant bath. An Artilleryman's Diary Youth is essentially the season of confidence; and to restrain its warm impulses, and dam up the flow of its affections, is to destroy its best and highest charm. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Cabins have been erected to house the visitors, a stream has been dammed up to provide a lake—and most astonishing of all to the mountain folk who enjoy their park is the sandy beach. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia The water is for the most part stored in artificial ponds, made by damming up hollows through which the water runs in the wet season. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars The Tangaran river was also dammed up by nine hills, and in its channel were large quantities of drift trees. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Boys busy in the afternoon damming up the creek in front of camp to make swimming pond. An Artilleryman's Diary Oh, yes, they had to dam up the doorway to keep the rest of the house from being inundated. All That Goes Up At this point, however, the sand had rolled down from the roadway into the open ditch, damming up the water so that it could not escape into the basin. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin What had been underground passages became, in a moment, underground rivers, for the water that had been held back and dammed up so long just poured in in a drowning flood. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls Mud derived from this source descended, in 1797, from the sides of Tunguragua in Quito, and filled valleys a thousand feet wide to the depth of six hundred feet, damming up rivers and causing lakes. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology For centuries the peasants in the neighbouring villages have carried away stones from this place in order to dam up the earth of their vineyards on the slopes of the hills. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 In the deep pond they had dammed up, we found a quantity of birch poles pegged out. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North The city was divided into separate districts for the different races, the canals were dammed up, the water-works fell to pieces, the valley was left untilled, and fruit trees were unpruned and unwatered. Cathedrals of Spain Out of the cleft of a granite rock gurgled a merry little brook, half dammed up by two huge jagged stones. Pretty Michal Its great river of truth has flowed serenely on, watering the whole earth with its life-giving streams, and refusing to be dammed up by any foe. The Christian View of the Old Testament Artificial lakes or reservoirs were formed, so that by damming up the streams in the rainy season a good supply was created for the dry season. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The center remains in a condition of tension; energy is dammed up there, unable to find an outlet. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life A flood that he had never acknowledged, that he had hardly suspected, that he had set all his faculties to dam up and wall over, had been suddenly let loose and overwhelmed him. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 Brooks may be dammed up, and thus made to cover a large quantity of land. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools In the first place, you've got to do something to keep your money from being dammed up and running all over everything. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht And the hurkles dammed up small streams with logs to increase their marshland. The Asses of Balaam We have already seen what the conditions are that cause this damming up of energy. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life It seems he was over around Clifton when some French miners came in and, knowing their weakness, Spud dammed up the creek and got ready to have a frog farm. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp The cause of this was a damming up of his feelings toward his mother, for whom he longed in the unconscious. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study There is something in me stagnated or dammed up. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Arrested, pent, dammed up, the lusty life of that great waterway leading into the West and South scarce took time for sleep. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman The municipality of Adelaide, however, have wisely dammed up the river, and converted it into a lake of about one and a half miles long, thus improving an eyesore into an ornament. Six Letters From the Colonies The stream which formerly flowed past the entrance-lodge is dammed up by the fallen bridge and spreads out in a broad morass. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 I and some of my neighbors are going to dam up that basin, and the irrigation laws will protect our rights.” Whispering Smith We soon had a vast throng of these fugitives dammed up in our front, a terrible menace to the integrity of our own line as well as of all in our rear. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 A swift-flowing stream was there, and the body fell across it—blocking the water which dammed up, then turned aside and went roaring off through the mangled forest. The World Beyond Yet is he weaker after that herculean task than the other chap who dammed up his stream of tendency with the side of his boot? Sunlight Patch Man goes forth in the morning with all the springs of generosity open; but before night selfishness has dammed up the hidden springs. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character By and by great tomanowos bridge at cascades he fall in, dam up water, make river higher all way up to Tumwater; then salmon he get over. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. The blue clay that formed them was full of springs, which the boys dammed up in little ponds and let loose in glassy falls upon their flutter-mills. A Boy's Town In many places the debris from the rocks above would reach right across the valley and dam up the stream. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In You may dam up the busy waters, but they will sweep away obstructions, or force a new channel. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans While dere, he take de slaves and dam up de branch, to make a pond for to pool de water. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 The mighty arch, the long low mountain of stone, had fallen in, damming up the waters of the Columbia, which were pouring over the sunken mass in an ever-increasing volume. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. On going back to the hole, and, gazing into it, the animal, as Alexis had anticipated, was quite dead; and the water, partially dammed up by the huge carcass, was flowing over it. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Those due to rockfalls, landslips, or lava currents, damming up the course of a river. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In In a few minutes, Ossaroo approached the bank of the stream, at a place where it was dammed up, and formed a reach of deep water—a pool. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Here Cagatinta—who like water that had been a long time dammed up and had now found vent—stretched out both his arms, and in a loud voice cried out: “I can swear to it!” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora His voice wobbled strangely; there was scalding water dammed up behind his ugly honest eyes. The Dop Doctor The situation was discouraging, but I was not to be discouraged; to reach that stronghold I was resolved, if I had to dam up the irrigator, build a bridge, or fill up the quagmire. A Bird-Lover in the West The water dammed up against the viaduct, the wreckage and débris finishing the work that the torrent had failed to accomplish. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin Must have been dammed up some place, and suddenly released. The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X The Birmingham reservoirs are a chain of lakes artificially produced by damming up the River Elan, a tributary of the Wye. The Blue Germ Another division of Indians was immediately to dam up the river at the convent of Santa Clara, and thereby lay the streets under water. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Sometimes the masses are such as to dam up the river and form temporary lakes, until the accumulation of force behind bursts the barrier, and a furious flood rushes down the valley. The Huguenots in France Upon the arrival of the water, it ought to be dammed up, and the engine will lift it by suction out of the pool so formed. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction "I wondered if it would not be a good plan for me to build the dam up again, so that you could use the pond." Lisbeth Longfrock It is because the learner's mind is dammed up by difficult and to him empty technical terms. The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young "In the main working; but the water is dammed up; we can never pass." A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Inundation is also a method of impeding the approach of an enemy, by damming up the course of a brook or river, so as to intercept the water, and set the neighbourhood afloat. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When the man inside the drain or common sewer has collected a proper supply of water by damming up the channel, the suction-pipe should be handed down to him, and the engine set to work. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction It seems to have had a sluice at the west end in order to dam up the water if required in greater volume for flushing the drain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See The hate, consequently, that is being dammed up within me is possibly nothing but rage at my fruitless wooing. The Goose Man He put a check on himself, and during his four years in London contrived successfully to dam up the flood that was secretly threatening him. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Then the animal showed him how they dammed up the river, by letting the trees fall across it and filling the spaces between with mud and leaves. Thirty Indian Legends An artificial fall can often be made where the banks are high by damming up the stream several feet. Amateur Fish Culture Two very fair doors ... were lathed, daubed, and dammed up, the fair pillars were ordinary posts, against which they piled billets and bavens. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See So bring on your dredges, And shovels and sledges, Yer bricklayers, masons, yer hammers and mauls— The public be dammed while we dam up the Falls. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) The stream, as I had rightly conjectured, was dammed up, at the point where the channel was narrowest, but not by any accident. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness To our right was the stagnant river, dammed up behind the blockading arm of grass. Greener Than You Think “I once myself saw them hold a council, and then they all separated to go to work, for they were about to dam up a stream and build their lodges.” The Settlers in Canada Her share of that current of human nature which has welled forth from its fountain in the earthly paradise is dammed up, and cut off from the general stream that overflows the world. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 If you dam up his mountain-streams, you have, instead of fragrance, poison and pestilence; and if you chain up the negro’s life in slavery, you have, for music, wailing and curses. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Indeed, being almost tideless, they have to be occasionally dammed up and cleaned out. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta All day300 Monday the warmth increased; and the farmers coming into town reported great ponds of water dammed up in the swales and hollows against the enormous snow-drifts. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Between the ridges flowed the sluggish Antietam, dammed up for milling purposes. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac The slightest accident, as the treading of cattle, the track of a loaded cart, the burrowing of animals, dams up the water and lessens the effect of the drain. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles There is here a grist-mill driven by the water which they dam up in the creek; and it is hereabouts they go mostly to shoot snipe and wild geese. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The whole of the river Schuykill is dammed up, and forms a huge water-power, which forces up the supply of water for the use of the city. Diary in America, Series One And as our beginning has been tardy, so will our progress be rapid, even as waters long dammed up rush out to devour the plains, etc., etc. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic As a final measure they dammed up the springs and drained the lake. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow They made a manly, but vain attempt to suppress a roar of laughter, which only gathered strength from being dammed up, and at last burst over all bounds. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren "I once myself saw them hold a council, and then they all separated to go to work, for they were about to dam up a stream and build their lodges." The Settlers in Canada The growth of the West—which has always outstripped its internal improvements—like an immense river long dammed up, bursting the barriers that confined it, forced its way toward the sea. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 The ancient cañon of Lake Chelan had been dammed up by the lava, and a lake occupied a portion of the former bed of the river. The Western United States A Geographical Reader We have unusually heavy obligations maturing on the first of next month and you will understand that for the proper conduct of business the flow of credit should not be dammed up. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence I remarked upon this, that they who "now blame the impetuosity of the current, should rather turn their animadversions upon those who have dammed up a majestic river, till it has become a flood." Apologia Pro Vita Sua They catch antelope, hares, pig and nilgai in their nets, and kill them with sticks and stones, and they dam up streams and net fish. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Leo Kofler speaks of the same tendency: "Tell a pupil to let his tongue lie flat in his mouth; he draws it back till it dams up his throat." The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern The extra volume of water is what makes this terrific current through the cavern and the very fact that the water goes on through without damming up proves to me that it has an outlet. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters "There's a big dam up at Four Corners," said the blacksmith. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way The water thus dammed up rushed out with frightful velocity against the fury of the gale, producing a sea that beggared description.” The Ocean and its Wonders On getting the word from Biarne to begin, you will all set to work to dam up the water, right across from this bank to the head of the island. The Norsemen in the West Gets dammed up together in bends and corners of the river, and makes it cut itself a fresh bed to right or left. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco I was not by the great dam up the river, but there in our own furnace-house, and something was making a strange rustling noise. Patience Wins War in the Works Yes; it’s a deep bit of a pool as the master dammed up, and this here’s a tree felled to lie acrost it like a bridge. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales One part of our mind dams up—even damns up!—the other parts. Memories and Studies They have to be trapped or else they dam up streams and overflow good land. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies They had a playful habit of damming up these streams until an unusually hard rain would come, when they would open the gates and give us the benefit of the whole dose. The Emma Gees Deep clear water fed by the great dam up in the hills, and of course that dam was fed by the mountain streams. Patience Wins War in the Works A stream of cars which had been dammed up as far as the eye could reach began to flow swiftly past. Jill the Reckless Movement in any direction, save for a few yards to the flanks if the mud had been cleared away or dammed up, in daylight was impossible. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry It is in connection with this damming up of nerve currents from following their wonted channels that the emotion emerges. The Mind and Its Education The thing it would emphatically not do is to dam up an insurgent current until it overflowed the countryside. A Preface to Politics Then Champlain must dam up the brook for a trout pond. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom She had asked so little of life—just a few good times to offset the drudgery, just an outlet for the ocean of love that was dammed up in her small body. Quin Long ago he learned the advantages of co-operation, and he unites with his fellows in building dams of felled trees, which have been cut up into suitable length for use in damming up water places. The Human Side of Animals The knoll on which it stood was converted almost into an island by the damming up of an adjacent brook, and the whole enclosed area amounted to 30 acres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" A glacier, advancing beyond its usual limits and rising against the opposite mountain-slope, dammed up the waters of the torrent and caused a lake to be formed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 I remarked upon this, that they who "now blame the impetuosity of the current, should rather turn their animadversions upon those who have dammed up a majestic river, till it had become a flood." Apologia pro Vita Sua The shock of my arrest had simply dammed up the sympathy stream like a sudden frost; but now the reaction had come and I was not without friends. Branded The water below the drains stands at a level, like any other water that is dammed up. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health In an old hymn-book it was said, 'Two places, O man, thou hast before thee;' but in modern times they have slain the devil and dammed up hell. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The sluggish tributary seems to be dammed up by the impetuous monarch. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Do not think to dam up the red current of his life—he may die. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists We are told that near Benedict's first monastery there was a very deep lake, made in the time of Nero by damming up a mountain stream. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Every day my anxiety increased, for the intelligence would soon get about that the brook was dammed up, and any pools left in it would be sure to attract attention. Nature Near London This might also be done by damming up and tapping the adjacent bottom. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative De place whar us dammed up de crick for our swimmin' hole was a right smart piece off from de big house. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 He argued that when one sets out to dam up the tides set flowing back in the tributaries of the heart it is written that one must fail. The Lighted Match He had to blast a channel to keep the little stream from damming up on him. Little Fuzzy Long after they had finished a storm descended, and the rain, thus dammed up and unable to escape, flooded the corner. Nature Near London He has dammed up all those lights that nature made into the noblest prospects of the world, and opened other little blind loopholes backward by turning day into night, and night into day.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Rudolph and his uncle pushed forward through the thickets, and on the banks of a small stream, dammed up to form a lake, they found the bonnet and shawl of the missing girl. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales This is the unrighteous Adam, that dammed up the water springs of universal liberty, and brought the Creation under the curse of bondage, sorrow, and tears. The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer Passing on a little farther, I came to a brook, which, I remember, the old man's son and I dammed up, so that it almost overflowed the road. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics The greater part of the river communication might be rendered passable by Durham boats, merely by damming up the rivers. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. The last we heard of Liemba was that at a great way north-west, it is dammed up by rocks, and where it surmounts these there is a great waterfall. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Abeshu, the next Babylonian king, endeavoured to shatter the cause of the Sealanders, and made it possible for himself to strike at them by damming up the Tigris canal. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The river was here about six yards wide, and frequently dammed up by the beaver. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. No; with this sabre I defy the destinies, and dam up the passage with my person; like a rugged rock, opposed against the roaring of the boisterous billows. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 "The torrent which had been dammed up in one channel rushed violently into another." The Haskalah Movement in Russia He had so formed his entourage that he did not receive through private channels the current of faith and enthusiasm of which the public sources seemed dammed up. The Economic Consequences of the Peace Luckily, it never entered their heads to hasten the inevitable by damming up the stream before it entered the enclosure. Round the World in Seven Days If you dam up this strong current, it may find other outlets, possibly less desirable. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Through thoughtless Hotspurs, who allow themselves to be carried away by excitement and do not dam up the flood of their eloquence, much mischief can be done. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 I run about a mile off and run into a mill dam up to my head in water. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Baretti is for ever in the state of a stream dammed up: if he could once get loose, he would bear down all before him. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings The second reservoir, a dammed up valley, was just below the first; it served to break the fall from the higher to the lower level and receive the overflow from the crater. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance By no means discouraged, he dammed up the entrance more effectually, got rid of the water, increased his farm by many acres, and the old ship makes an admirable cow-shed. Vanishing England For the skating season he prepared a pond, spending several thousand dollars damming up a small stream, in order that the children might have a place to skate. Twelve Men That was the old dam up in Norman's Woods, where he and Ruth had gone fishing. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund Streams are dammed up and the pears thrown in. White Shadows in the South Seas I asked permission to dam up a little stream, dig some trenches, and irrigate the fields, by which I could have doubled the produce both in quantity and quality. The Roman Question If he could only dam up that entrance, he thought he could rescue the bed of the cove and add to his acres. Vanishing England It was as if his passions had been dammed up by the original influence of Valentine. Flames Then, too, we heard a loud thunder of the beams falling, and there was a great mass of woodwork in the river, that dammed up for a while the flood. The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven Time, however, passed on, and no success attended her efforts, till at length she caused the hills which dammed up the waters to be pierced, and then De Chissey was found. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland Two tears were dammed up inside his eyelids, which were so unused to tears that they held them in. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods To stay him would be impossible; We might as well try with a finger to stop Ixion's wheel, or to dam up the current of the Thames with a child's foot. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs The mill afterwards causing the water to be dammed up, gave rise to a succession of paltry bridges, chiefly of timber, to preserve a communication between the two streets. An History of Birmingham (1783) One can not be too watchful against the attacks of timidity, which, like a contaminated spring, poisons the entire existence of those who are unable to dam up its flow. Poise: How to Attain It Us dammed up dat little crick right back of whar de Seaboard Depot is now and it made a fine pool to swim in. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 We are still endeavoring to check it and hold it dammed up in the swamps of the reaction, but we have succeeded only in checking our literature itself. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The directions of these ridges will be determined by the lay of the land—the object being neither to dam up water or to encourage washing. The Dollar Hen The well was on a hillside, and the valley below had been dammed up previously to form a reservoir capable of holding a large supply of oil. Persia Revisited It was much smaller than he had been led to expect, and very low and studded with small lakes, probably made by the action of beavers damming up the little streams. Pioneers in Canada But it was as easy as to dam up the Falls at Niagara. The Moon-Voyage Legal enactments are right; but to attempt to dam up a torrent and neglect the fountain-head is surely insanity. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography For it did seem as if his deep ambitions dammed up for a time by furnaces and Jabezeses, had broke loose into a wider, deeper current than ever. Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition Men have no need to dam up a little purling brook. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections It had been a severe winter, the whole of Lake Venern was frozen; the ice dammed up the outlet, and for many hours there was a dry bottom. Pictures of Sweden "Not until some one gives us a million dollars to dam up a natural formation that is there and turn the river into it," said one. Abroad with the Jimmies Stop its currents, dam up its inlets and outlets, and it is reduced to stagnation, and soon becomes foul and mischievous instead of healthy and life-giving. Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" They perform great public works by the united efforts of the whole community—such as damming up streams and constructing mounds for their habitations. The Illustrated London Reading Book O thou of ascetic wealth, thou canst not dam up this mighty current. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 This is often dammed up and so kept back partially, but it generally forces its way through. Hodge and His Masters The Honorable William Jones, his eloquence thus dammed up, seemed to experience a sudden restriction of the throat, and coughed once or twice. The Purchase Price Two entries that can be dammed up give a storage of 16,500 gallons, making a total storage capacity of 27,500 gallons. Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 You see, the doctor is like a bright mountain stream that has been dammed up among the hills and is waiting for an outlet into the Atlantic. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans She could dam up the wellspring of her impulses, walk steadfast along the accustomed ways. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest The Arno flows, or rather stands still, under my windows, for the water is low, and near the western wall of the city is frugally dammed up to preserve it for the public baths. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America Not only life's tragic elements diminish and dam up its vital energies. The Education of the Child At the distance of a few hundred yards, where the water of a little rill had been dammed up into a pool, there was a large and substantial water-mill. The Voyage of the Beagle So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him—rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew. White Fang Women were busy with their household tasks; some boys were playing in the streets, damming up the gutters and shrieking with joy when their dams broke. Boyhood in Norway In one place they have made a lake by damming up the stream; in another their works have created an island, and they have made several falls. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains He was not likely to forget; but you cannot dam up life like a sluggish stream. The End of the Tether The girl flung herself down again and sobbed—poured out upon the bosom of our mother earth all the torrents of tears that had been damming up within her. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise I want to block up this passage at its month, to seal it hermetically, and even, if necessary, to conceal the entrance by damming up the lake.” The Mysterious Island The water that had half filled the lower passage is due to the river having been dammed up for a mill, and so having raised the level considerably. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe They set to work and dammed up the stream, and gradually all this flat became a lake. In the Heart of the Rockies We quickly reached the clearing, and then made our way to the counting-house, a lofty cottage, standing by itself over a small gully, which had been dammed up and converted into a pool. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Mr. Bridge had not then entered the navy, and was engaged in a great enterprise on the Androscoggin; nothing less than an attempt to dam up that river and apply the water-power to some mills. A Study of Hawthorne They do not consider that when the earth has dammed up the stream, the supply of water will be cut off. Buddhism and Buddhists in China Those scoundrel Swabians have dammed up their fields, and that has taken some more off the hill.' Selected Polish Tales The river which devastates a nation, dammed up within banks, may fertilise half a continent. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke His long-suffering mercy and more than human tenderness do not hamper His arm when it is bared to smite; His judicial severity does not dam up the flow of His mercy and tenderness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Looking up stream, the water 'stood'; and, as the flow above went on, it was dammed up, and, as would appear, swept back to a point not now known, but apparently some miles up. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Such is Lord Byron's description of one of a series of beautiful sheets of water, formed in old times by the monks by damming up the course of a small river. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey Many of the sources of earthly felicity are dammed up and shut off from us if we are living beneath the shadow of God's wings. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The French Revolution was not an accident or a product of chance, but rather the inevitable result of an attempt to dam up the stream of human progress and prevent its orderly onward flow. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization If you wish to have a current going down the main bed of the stream, sufficient to keep it clear, you must dam up all the side channels. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The silent presence of the ark is enough to dam up the stream. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII And there were days with a thick mist that came floating in from the sea, damming up everything behind a wall of murk. Pan England and France would not allow our great staple to be dammed up within our present limits; the starving thousands in their midst would not allow it. The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2 Cold boggy stewponds in the garden, such as our ancestors loved, damming up the stream. Two Years Ago, Volume II. It is called the Devil's wall from the tradition of the Devil having endeavoured to make a wall to dam up the river. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 He has dammed up all those lights that Nature made into the noblest prospects of the world, and opened other little blind loopholes backward by turning day into night and night into day. Character Writings of the 17th Century Being unable to reduce this place by force, the Tartars dammed up the river, and drowned the whole city, with the inhabitants and their goods. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Love dammed up was apt to spring a leak in time, even if it did not overflow, and—well, it was known that water sought its level, even if it could not run uphill. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Thy dam up in the old Caucasian cave was great of heart, and, like her, thou wouldst not quail before Hercules, were he living. The Prince of India — Volume 01 A stream of automobiles which had been dammed up as far as the eye could reach began to flow swiftly past. The Little Warrior The talus which had lately been poured into the valley formed a gently sloping bank, twenty feet high, over which the Lachen-Lachoong rolled, from a pool above, caused by the damming up of its waters. Himalayan Journals — Complete He says that he quotes a great deal of poetry in it, and that I must dam up the fount of my tears when he reads it. The Potiphar Papers In the garden at Kalamazoo already referred to, the water was obtained by damming up a spring. Success with Small Fruits Wallace even found means to dam up the spring which had supplied the citadel with water. The Scottish Chiefs In Switzerland, the most terrible inundations often result from the damming up of deep valleys by ice-slips or by the gradual advance of glaciers, and the accumulation of great masses of water above the obstructions. The Earth as Modified by Human Action The water on the upper side of the bridge was dammed up and fell over the little sluice gates under the arches into a clear and deep basin about forty or fifty feet in diameter. Clara Hopgood They bathed their feet in the fountains, dammed up the gutters, or hid themselves beneath piles of vegetables, and remained there prattling to each other just as they did in bed at night. The Fat and the Thin The swamp was produced by the labours of the beaver, which, by damming up the stream, had inundated a portion of the valley. The Great Salt Lake Trail He had spoken like a torrent, which, for a long time dammed up, at last becomes too powerful for restraint, and bursts forth, overthrowing all obstacles with its headlong flood. A Siren These travellers observed "a long chain of marshes formed by the damming up of a stream which had now ceased to exist," Chap. The Earth as Modified by Human Action And he went and sheared all his sheep, and, with the multitudinous fleeces, dammed up the stream, caused the water to flow into other channels, and thereby rendered the widow's forty mills useless and unproductive. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Wherever it was possible little canals leading water from reservoirs and dammed up streams crossed the plains, and every foot of the irrigated ground was covered with a luxuriant crop. The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal There's something damming up his mind, and when he gets by it he's a roaring water, but when he doesna he's a despizable trickle. The Little Minister It dammed up vast unsalable surpluses, helping to bring about unemployment and suffering in the United States and everywhere else. State of the Union Address This river, at Belleville, is often dammed up by confused piles of timber. Roughing It in the Bush On August 25th they reached a fall where the river was once dammed up for a great height by an overflow of lava from craters on and near the brink. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons "I, too," he said, "am a neglected book gnawed by the moth," "a stream dammed up with mud," "a Phalaris, clapped, for nothing in particular, into the belly of a brazen bull." The Life of Sir Richard Burton You might as well try to dam up the river Leichardt with this little hand I'm holding.' Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life The mud carried down by the river has formed a bank at the month which nearly dams up the stream, and threatens to throw it back over the low-lying lands of the Pointe Mulâtre estate. Atlantis : the antediluvian world The two centre piers in particular caused a great deal of trouble, as the river broke in several times, and had to be dammed up and pumped dry again before work could be resumed. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures A gentleman told us that the man on whose farm the spring is located dammed up its water, only to find that he had lost his spring. See America First There are men at Oxford who have rested their brains this way for over thirty years: the accumulated brain power thus dammed up is said to be colossal. My Discovery of England There we had a delightful swim in the broad piece of water above the lock, where the river looked much bigger than its natural size from its being dammed up by the weir. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance She has a heart as big as the Mississippi, and I assure you, Miss Louder, you won't make her happy, but miserable, if you try to dam up its channel. Stories of a Western Town The youth in him, that had never had free play in the years of early manhood, lay still dammed up, and had to find an outlet. The Great Hunger A portion of this line was covered by the Warwick Creek, which he dammed up to make it unfordable, and erected batteries to guard the dams. With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War The debris, by damming up the stream, caused a freshet, which swept everything before it and killed quantities of folk lower down the valley. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Her love—thus dammed up into a small space—at last burst its banks, and overflowed on her father. A Dark Night's Work The whole course was at once dammed up, and the river rose sixty feet in one hour before the principal mass of rock was made topheavy by the power of the flood. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it "And what happens to those dams up there is more to you now than what becomes of me!" The Great Hunger The intense and abnormal rider's passion in him, like Bostil's, dammed up, but never fully controlled, burst within him, and suddenly he awoke to a wild and terrible violence of heart and soul. Wildfire His rage, dammed up for the past four days, finding at last an outlet, flowed in gross insults and insane threats. Other People's Money Now see, Macumazahn," he said, taking some snuff, "how hard it is to dam up the stream of nature. Finished Sometimes its deposits dammed up river courses or inequalities in the surface, to form the lakes which everywhere abound over Northern territories. A History of Science — Volume 3 Have I done all I could during this life of mine to dam up this fearful tide? The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation The torrent which had been dammed up in one channel rushed violently into another. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 He tried to dam up Time, to deepen the stream so that he could bathe in it carelessly. Where the Blue Begins The swamp was produced by the labors of the beaver, which, by damming up a stream, had inundated a portion of the valley. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Many of them they had so completely dammed up as to inundate the low grounds, making shallow pools or lakes, and extensive quagmires; by which the route of the travellers was often impeded. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains You see, there was a small creek that we dammed up to make our lake. Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record Only one sweet word of all the unspoken tenderness which, like a river without any outlet, had been seventeen years dammed up in his breast. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable There was no way to dam up the over-spilling monstrous flood of life. The Strength of the Strong Here, not merely the river itself, but every rivulet flowing into it, was dammed up by communities of industrious beavers, so as to inundate the neighborhood, and make continual swamps. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West About two and a half miles below this the river expands into a wide basin, seemingly dammed up by a perpendicular ridge of black rock. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains |
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