| 单词 | ditch |
| 例句 | They had to step into the ditch to let us pass. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He abandoned the ditch for the forest the moment he saw someone coming toward him from the opposite direction and ran through the cluttered forest frenziedly like someone pursued, his cheeks burning with disgrace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The man's rapier took flight and came to earth in the water of the ditch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He hopped across the ditch to the further bank and looked round him again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were streams and creeks everywhere, instead of the irrigation ditches you saw out west, and the air felt different. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Major Major told you that? In a ditch?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I pushed some tall weeds aside and jumped over the shallow ditch that ran along the edge of the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Sip turned to me, and seeking intelligence, demanded, “Augustus, I hear you dug ditches for the rebs. I hear you dug out Bunker Hill.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We had ditched her, left her to the bears and wolves and chortling mountain men. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He waded into the ditch and fished out his rapier. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When the Belgian rises to close the window, the scent of all this reaches him: the storm, the ditch, the woman with the corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The road was blocked by a line of cars standing aslant halfway in the ditch. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I turn and run out the door, past the grove, the tractor, the community building, past the houses and the reservoir ditches and out onto the cliff overlooking the sea. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Elizabeth became a skilled equestrian and learned how to jump ditches and four-foot fences on horseback. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Farther on some teen-agers halfheartedly chopped at weeds along an irrigation ditch behind the junior high school football field bleachers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As he lay face down in the muddy ditch, he didn't know if he'd ever get up again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I figured he must be on the other bus, but then I overheard Miles tell Amos that Julian ditched the grade trip because he thought the whole nature-retreat thing was, quote unquote, dorky. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Dandelion was inconsolable to think that he might have stopped Hazel breaking from the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She headed for the farm, following other people who were fleeing, and falling into the same garbage ditch that I did along the way. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A girl, dead in a ditch, her skirt knotted high. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The ditch was thick with cow parsley, hemlock and long trails of green-flowering bryony. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The man flicked the stub at the boy in the ditch. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z This time the ditch seemed warm and comforting. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He pushed Tayo out of the way, into the ditch running full of muddy water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Much later, as they came under the pylon line, he remembered the overgrown ditch at the foot of the hill and set himself to reach it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama Brunelle was closest, legs splayed, her corpse sprawled halfway into a ditch. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t look like a favor. It looks like leaving them in a ditch.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He pulled the bloodstained mask from his face and got up and rinsed it in the ditch and wrung it out and then just stood there in the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Which was good for the field, but against ditch regulations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep trying to ditch her in places, but she inexplicably reappears at my side, insisting that as my escort she’s responsible for my staying on schedule. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Houses or barns or under the bank of a roadside ditch with the blankets pulled over their heads and the noon sky black as the cellars of hell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z "I couldn't help it. I fell in that ditch." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Got on’y our heads sticking outa water, an’ up under the grass that sticks out from the side of the ditch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z It was inevitable that some people would just look for an opportunity to ditch class, but he supposed it didn’t really matter in the long run. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The couple to be joined faced her across the ditch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z She said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditch water, as long as animals were drinking from it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He was on a river called the Yazoo, not far from Vicksburg, digging ditches, chopping wood, and building bridges. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This gone-away hand that never helped me over the stile, or guided me past the dragons, pulled me up from the ditch into which I stumbled. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had alighted from Joe’s back on the brink of the ditch when we came up, and had not moved since. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Badly wounded and shocked, the survivors on the roadway tried to crawl back to the safety of the ditch, only to be buried beneath rubble which thundered down on them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She also had news of her own: She was ditching her job as a computer specialist at the Federal Reserve and going traveling—not for weeks, but for months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We have one set of people constructing the ring ditches and another set of people constructing the causeways and mounds,” Alvarez told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Malachy isn’t in a ditch, he’s there in our own house eating fish and chips a drunken soldier dropped at the gate of the Sarsfield Barracks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Most of the oil field work was for whites only, but because of the oil there were fat cats to chauffeur, dance halls to clean, ditches to dig, pipes to lay. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I smiled to myself and thought, Miss Diana Ross wasn’t hardly digging any ditches in her sparkly gold pants. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Do you want to ditch school today? I bet they’ll let us.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Hours and hours and hours, ditching chores and trips to the mall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As they approached, a big rabbit appeared over the edge of the ditch, looked at them quickly and vanished into the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We found concrete slabs where the latrines and shower rooms stood, and irrigation ditches, and here and there, the small rock arrangements that once decorated many of the entranceways. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They jumped across an irrigation ditch with their long, nine-year-old legs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see a break through the trees that he thought was a ditch or a cut and they came out through the weeds into an old roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If either factor failed—if reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit the variations—then nature would be mired in a ditch, the cogwheels of evolution jammed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I ditch my tray and bolt for the door. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Most of the kids had been going to a dance down at St. Mary’s Hall, but when they heard Lorraine and I were having a party, they ditched that idea. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I ditched my classes and would call him from the public phones on campus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A line of cars had already collected up and down the ditch line in front of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine palace. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She waded deeper into the cemetery and, pulled by her cosmic force, I ditched my parents and followed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Overjoyed, I quickly removed and stacked them in crude piles next to a ditch nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The immigrants, under Woundwort’s direction, dug their holes between the roots of the trees, in the undergrowth and along the ditches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the kinds of throat-clearing phrases you can usually ditch: At this juncture I thought you might be interested in knowing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My security detail wore shorts and sneakers and ditched their earpieces, doing their best not to stand out as they trailed me and my assistant Kristin Jones through the store. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At length, the larger of the two came out, slipped along the bank under cover of the brambles and so down into the ditch and up into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is poison water. Is bad water from the ditch that make my baby belly swell so,” says Marie, Lagurie’s woman, carrying her youngest on her hip, her child sad with bellyache. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And the four crawled out of the ditch without drawing any more fire. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined the other people who had fields there, by the main ditch, and nobody went back to work after lunch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They’d found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch, badly burned, flies in his mouth and eyes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a dozen twenty-five-pounder guns were piled beyond the ditch, as if swept up there by a heavy bulldozer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I ain’t never heard him. When I was home he weren’t doing nothing but chasing after women and lying in the ditches, drunk.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Had Valley shown her true colors and ditched them right when things got dangerous? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Still among the bees, they reached a stinking ditch of slurry which they crossed by a wobbling plank. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He observed exactly what I saw four decades later: isolated hillocks of forest; long raised berms; canals; raised agricultural fields; circular, moat-like ditches; and odd, zigzagging ridges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a foot of water in the ditch, and the tall grass grew up from its sides. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Trying to pretend it didn’t matter that Eddie had ditched me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The end could not be rushed; there would be fighting to the last ditch, but the end was inevitable. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately alongside was the abandoned railroad ditch that carried the pipe that carried the aviation gasoline down to the fuel trucks at the airfield. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “And when Nancy fell in the ditch and Roskus shot her and the buzzards came and undressed her.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in a puddle of water in a ditch. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Joe himself hopped out, grabbed a shovel from the back, and proceeded, in a few minutes, to divert water from Indian Creek into the Roybal ditch that led to his illegal field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Missiles from the wall had slackened off, giving Cluny’s horde a chance to desert the ditch for the relative safety of the meadows. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We listened like it was some kind of serenade, while I sat with my eyes closed, trying to picture my mother asleep in a ditch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We couldn’t ditch her stuff, not yet anyway. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Hours later, within sight of the Abbey walls, Chickenhound discovered a slope that was not too steep and started to pull himself up out of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Bring the archers! Keep the slings going! Let’s give that mob in the ditch something to think about.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There was a ditch thirty or so yards distant that we employed as a latrine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yelling and shouting fearsome war cries, the attackers leaped from the ditch, peppering the ramparts with a hail of arrows, spears and stones. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Limping about, the rat explained that he had been in a hay cart that overturned into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I could have ditched it, but that would have been the same as littering. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He climbed from the ditch and wiped his weapon in the grass. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Without another word Cluny marched off with his selected rodents, first to the upturned hay cart in the ditch down the road, then a quick circle around into Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There are also the exciting thin metal posts with the flashers on top, so drivers don’t veer off into ditches because of pitch-blackness or sheer boredom. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Chickenhound had screamed and fallen into the ditch, helped by the feet of the rat executioners. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They worked all day on a ditch, drinking beer, until they were bone tired and the ditch was clean, with its banks built up strong again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes me only a few seconds to realize that they are photographs of suffering: narrow, pinched children with huge eyes, ditches full of bodies, huge mounds of burning papers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Alex was saved only by a narrow ditch in front of him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Then Bigwig, his eyes set in a fixed, glazed stare, began to jerk his way up the ditch toward the opening. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time, a thread of blood began to trickle over the lip of the drain into the trampled, deserted ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was seven years old, he rode his bike into a ditch and broke a rib. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Dig a ditch to dump his garbage in, he says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d pulled over beside a big empty field, so we jumped over the ditch and spent a few minutes rubbing our hands together and watching our breaths rise. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One was the tunnel; the rats in Mossflower Wood were attending to his second scheme; and the third—Cluny glanced over to the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Several seconds of silence followed, then there was a crash, accompanied by screams of pain and shock from the rats packed into the ditch below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Who were these people who passed the bodies of dead Jews in the ditches every day on their way into town to work? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Under the cover of night he wobbled unsteadily to his feet, limping away up the bed of the ditch towards Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z People popped out at him from trees and bushes, from ditches and tall weeds, from around the corners of tents and from behind the fenders of parked cars. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You ditched your friend—your only friend—because he didn’t want to help you control the school.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Good practice in case you ever have to ditch or make a crash landing. Tee-hee-hee.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Back in the lorry, Henri was sick in the cab, and Jean-Marie, who was at the wheel, got into a panic and drove into a ditch. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Surrounding the walls was a ditch filled with those prickly palmetto palms that had sliced them when they ran from Nathan’s house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She just looks off to the left, where the ditch disappears into darkness. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When he got to the ditch, he saw no signs of the deadly sparkle-tailed snakes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He scrambled quickly down the bank and found the rat nosing in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heels gouged ditches in the soil as she struggled to stand, to push up, to run away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They hurled clods of earth at the prone forms in the ditch and stood watching them for a time. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As the supply of water from the irrigation ditch waxed and waned, the lights flickered on and off and glowed with varying degrees of in-tensity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He kept to the ditch along the river road so that he could duck out of sight whenever a rare oxcart came rumbling by. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He landed catlike on all fours as the hay cart upended in the roadside ditch, its buckled wheels spinning awkwardly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The edge of the highway isn’t very wide, you know, and people get in a hurry sometimes, and I didn’t want to fall down into the grassy ditch next to the road. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Bluebell and I had just got clear of the ditch when we realized that Pimpernel was still there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ditched her. What are you doing now, messing her around?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We’ve even dug some irrigation ditches, in case there’s a drought. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a last ditch effort, son. I’m sorry, but things have moved too fast.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Hazel and Leo were still ghosts, but now they stood in front of a rundown house next to a drainage ditch overgrown with weeds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was only when he had crossed it and reached the ditch beyond that he realized that he was on the opposite side of the lane from that on which they had first approached. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hands awkwardly raised, he circled warily around the old man, backed up to the ditch bank, and walked sideways along the bank to the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And after a while he had dug so many holes along the ditch bank that water began to leak into his field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ai, Chihuahua . . .” And, now that it had devoured most of the town’s water snakes, that grubby yellow feline reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca was pitter-pattering quietly along the irrigation ditches, hunting frogs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had prized it from the fingers of a captain in the West Kents lying in a ditch outside—outside where? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To his immediate right was a ditch, but it was shallow and exposed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Cars careened off roads and into ditches, where their occupants clutched cloths to their faces, struggled to breathe, gagged, and coughed up dirt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Since Mom was attached to that archery set, which her father had given her, Dad had Brian and me hide it in an irrigation ditch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They began to walk through the long grass of the ditch. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z With all the rats, and a great deal of luck, he managed to lift the hay cart until it was halfway out of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z However, there seemed to be nothing to worry about—the ditch led down the slope and that was the way home. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had just spent an hour bowing before a ditch with O’Dell. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her heart leaped when she imagined him ditching Scott to be with her. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “We did kind of ditch her, you know,” he finally blurted. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I ditched my bike on the sidewalk and was approaching my fans when it finally clicked. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t ditch walking dogs because of our fight yesterday, would she? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z "I will have every opening in the ringwall ditched and staked before dark," the Old Bear had commanded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many that were released wrongly came hurtling back down into the ditch, sometimes slaying the very creatures that had hurled them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We keep all our old subjects, or I’d’ve ditched Defense Against the Dark Arts.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z T. P. lay down in the ditch and I sat down, watching the bones where the buzzards ate Nancy, flapping black and slow and heavy out of the ditch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of clumps of tall reeds alongside the ditch darkened it in spots. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We are both staring at the rivulet of foaming beer flowing into the drainage ditch beneath us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was especially noticeable after Joe had forced through a town ditch to drain the street in front of the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I kept going and going and now I’m at university and not dead in a ditch somewhere and that is how he saved my life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “We have to go up the slope, I know that: but you must show me the ditch.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you ditch her to hang with him?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z After seeing myself in that ditch, I had not been able to look for Teddy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His head felt like it had a ditch running through it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “A washwoman is the one thing I don’t need right now. If you had any manservants capable of ditch digging, I’d take you up on the offer, but ...” He paused and shook his head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy was the first to ditch us for the Kings, in the end. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The water flowed apart, leaving a ditch of air down the middle. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We ended up ditching the steak house and going to Patsy’s that night, and I picked at my slice. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly Roy worked his way along the ditch, hunting for more clues. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan unlatched the lock and the horned toad sprinted away to a nearby ditch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Taking the ditch in a single leap, he darted across the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Slowly he rattled along the dusty road to where he had to climb the Roybal ditch bank, and once he had accomplished that he teetered along the bank to the field. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived, damp and uncomfortable from Francis’s sodden car seats, cars lined the road on both sides, as if for a rural dance or bingo night, sloping gently into the grassy ditch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The half dozen men he had gathered up before had picked themselves and their rifles out of the ditch and were wandering off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Luckily, while I was having an emotional meltdown in third period, Rebecca suggested we ditch the rest of the day at school and walk home. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He would have to lie low in this stinking ditch until darkness fell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And let’s not forget the two days of ditching school—a rotten cherry on top. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Behind their ditches, they were building catapults, scorpions, tall trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pushed himself up on his knees and dragged himself off the road to the ditch that kept it drained. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Nana, who could have given her away, or tossed her in a ditch somewhere and run. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure Grandpa Park was wrong about me ending up in a ditch. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He says, “I had to ditch my backpack.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Anyway, this Captain Campion took us down to a hole in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I warn you, Silver, they’ll be at us before it’s done. There’s thick cover in the water meadow—they’ll use that. Acorn, come back, keep away from that ditch!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled Dr. Trefusis out of the ditches where water still ran over the silt. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Radar and I walk away from the building to join him near a shallow drainage ditch. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The snow had started to descend more heavily and the fire in the ditch was guttering out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Politicians who had opposed suffrage in North Carolina urged members of Tennessee’s House of Representatives to fight suffrage “to the last ditch, and then some.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And back over the straight line that the ditch makes. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I’ve ditched the red cap, gloves, and black sweater, and am wearing a navy pullover and jeans. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sharpened stakes were wrenched from the ground, planks were dropped across deep ditches, and the stockade gates were thrown wide. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Stuart sat down in the ditch beside him and breathed deeply of the fresh, sweet air. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “You get the guys out of the ditch okay?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Satisfied there were no unusual sounds above me, I crawled on my stomach along the length of the ditch, which led outside the stadium, on Twelfth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After trying it, the conquistadors ditched their steel breastplates and helmets wholesale and dressed like Inka infantry when they fought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The car was late meeting us—the driver had to avoid an unexpected patrol—Paul and I stood for half an hour shivering and stamping around in the drainage ditch where we hid the bicycle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no references because she’d ditched out on her first and only job. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The bones rounded out of the ditch, where the dark vines were in the black ditch, into the moonlight, like some of the shapes had stopped. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z After school, Jessica followed me home in her old white Mercury so that I could ditch my books and truck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And over all the burned stuff on either side of the ditch. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The car veered out of control and plunged into a ditch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The standing water in the roadside ditches black with the runoff. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Apparently, one reason my grandfather supported the union was that it meant my mom would ditch her plans to move to London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z An anguished moan arose from the dormice lying in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Pacheco’s back ached from all that digging in the damp earth along the ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Having negotiated the ditch, they charged across the road. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Caked with filthy mud and trailing broken spears, they dashed off along the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z If it is, they definitely haven’t read The Art of War, which points out that setting up camp in a ditch is a death wish. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Try to make her believe that I didn’t miss ten feet of catching you in that ditch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I survived the death march and gotten my strength back, such as it was, all so I could die in a muddy ditch? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I ditch my bag and look for the Liars. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In here, he gets stared down by most of us, and the other people just think that’s he’s either stupid or must have ditched the day he was supposed to take the assessment test. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a pasture to my left, a ditch to my right. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Not a hole. A ditch, to bring water from the river to the fields. We mean to plant beans. The beanfields must have water.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He covered the width of the ditch with a mighty leap and ran off across the meadows. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after there was a huge fire burning in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I guess I’m just about the best pilot around now when it comes to ditching or making crash landings. It would be good practice for you.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I started ditching school, stopped going to football practice, and dropped all my old friends. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Afterward, the townspeople found a local man dead in a ditch near the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She ditched the first publicar at a small town right on time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “We felt so terrible ditching you!” she says. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Confession time: I ditched Grover as soon as we got to the bus terminal. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I run back toward the ditch where I came from and I see a hand sticking out. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that Ocean’s decision to ditch practice would probably blow up in both our faces, but I was also grateful for the moment of peace. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes I’d catch a ride with him, but he had that zero period in the mornings and he usually ditched me after practice to do something with his friends. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I hope the cops find him barefoot, frenzied, and naked in some roadside ditch a week from now,” Margo answered dispassionately. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Rats struggled from the ditch and the cart—frantic to obey the harsh command as quickly as possible. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He lost his balance and went sliding down a ditch that ran like a tunnel through the thicket. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They ditched her and became my friends instead. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He looked for rocks to turn over and ditches to explore. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What was the decision-making process when it came time to ditch the diapers? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Most ditch their backpacks shortly after entering Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He cut more hay, dug more ditches, dynamited more stumps, and spread more hot, black asphalt on Highway 101. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “My parents would say to do what they did: ditch journalism, get really into essential oils, buy a cabin in the Vermont wilderness, and own six hundred LL Bean vests that all smell like patchouli.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They avoided the stone farmhouses on rock outcroppings by walking in irrigation ditches. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z At last Fiver began to move along the bottom of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The streams and ditches bubbled and chattered with rushing water. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “We can’t get on, Hazel,” said Dandelion, “without leaving the ditch. It’s blocked.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His first night on the highway, Bob slept in the icy mud of the ditch. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot—I had to ditch it over the bar when the cop searched me earlier. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They cross a seething thoroughfare, then go up an alley that smells like a muddy ditch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I could ditch them when I got to Grand Rapids. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Minutes later they passed five bodies in a ditch, three women, two children. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was soft, swampy land, drained by half a dozen deep ditches, which we crossed on wooden footbridges. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In another month the grasshoppers would be dead; autumn wind and old age would chill them bone white, leaving their hollow shells to swirl with the dry leaves in the ditch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He dug a bunch of irrigation ditches that drained water out of the Colorado River to grow lettuce and grapes and broccoli right there in the middle of all the cactus and sagebrush. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I start walking off, ditching the cigarette first thing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Through the curtain of rain he glimpsed Woundwort dodging among his officers and urging them back into the ditch on the edge of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The ditch down the street! The ditch! The ditch!’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He probably wished he’d come with her and was likely plotting some way to ditch us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z How long he had been dragging his wounded body along the ditch bed he could not tell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Pheasant sickness” became a well-known phenomenon: birds “seek water, become paralyzed, and are found on the ditch banks and rice checks quivering,” according to one observer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It’s Ellie who ditched us, remember? It’s Savanna who hasn’t been nice to us.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Cluny’s horde was only making spasmodic sallies from the ditch now. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rest of us threw ourselves into the low ditch that was the field boundary. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “School starts early this year,” he said and leaned against the apple tree by the water ditch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s the fact that I am standing here in a ditch on the side of the road. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was well built, well dressed, and well mannered, with nothing foolish or humble about him, despite the fact that he had just fallen into a ditch and been relieved of his weapon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “She just ditched us for you guys. Which is fine. I don’t care. I’m not Maya.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I find the gash in the swamp, the ditch, find the wreckage of her ship, but there’s nothing there except what we left. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z If he hadn’t ditched that party, maybe things would be easier now. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I feel kind of sorry for the ditched ones, to be honest. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “The steering went out. We ran into a ditch.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch, he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadowy recesses of the strange burrow seemed full of whispering, malignant ghosts and he recognized the forgotten voices of rabbits done to death months since in the ditches of Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the rest of the extra nitrogen, the spring rains wash it off Naylor’s fields, carrying it into drainage ditches. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes I miss the days when she didn’t seem to care what I did with my time even if it did involve ditching her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “He told me in his office after we left the ditch and jumped inside. He told me not to tell anyone he told me, so don’t start shooting your mouth off.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Climbing out of the ditch, they crossed the road into Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z With Fiver beside him, he led the way out of the ditch and down the slope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond it, the ditch and trees curved back again in a re-entrant, so that the field formed a bay with a bank running all the way round. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After supper I wrapped the toady-frog in the sweater Ma had been working on and put it in her knitting basket and ran ’cross the road to hide in the drainage ditch with Cooter. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Donay and I must go out by the ditch, at night after dark. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Others just lay by the ditch, unconscious, or lost in hopelessness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Once a great river had flowed through the city, but the water had long since vanished, and it was now only a wide ditch of gray dust. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z As a teenager, Nguyen found odd jobs to do for the Americans on the nearby base, digging ditches and fixing potholes in roads. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Why not just throw him in a ditch now and be done with it? That’s where he’ll end up at this rate.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Joe had gone every spring with his father to clean the irrigation ditches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My family ran in all directions, my grandmother and mother holding on to each other and jumping into a ditch. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Do they even have ditches in New York City? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It avoided the clumps of nettles, and sidestepped known ditches and anthills. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “How did you see me? I thought you were ditching.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The administration area in which Hungry Joe had pitched his tent by mistake lay in the center of the squadron between the ditch, with its rusted railroad tracks, and the tilted black bituminous road. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z While the battle went ahead, ranging from the heights of the parapet to the depths of the ditch, the Joseph Bell rang out over the carnage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then I found an opening, and stepping through a ditch, came up to a fence. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As a pigtailed child, Joella had once ditched school to compete in, and win, a horse race against legendary Arapahoe riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We wince, our eyes become tense, our hands are ready to vault over the side of the lorry into the ditch by the road. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Three massive forms lay ahead of us, one in the road and two more in the field adjacent, just the other side of a shallow ditch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I swallowed hard at the next thought: She wasn’t going to ditch me, either. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She came running across the railroad ditch to the road and, like a wilted pot plant that just got watered, smiled up at me with the purest pleasure on her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We waited, lying flat beyond the ditch along the main road while a German battalion passed, then when they were gone we crossed the road and went on to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She’s obviously not jealous of my girlfriends, but I sometimes wish she were less okay with me ditching her for weeks without thinking twice. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Ahead there was a ditch running into the river. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Awaking at dawn, he immediately tugged on irrigation boots and a sweater and plunged outside to dig worms from the rich damp earth along his irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as a man rises in the mornings to dig ditches for his bread, so I’d work daily. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We ditched our bikes and started the trek to the big rocks at the edge of the tide, egg-shaped hunks of granite banging together underfoot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Some rats ran off down the road, others hurled themselves into the ditch, pursued by the relentless, stinging insects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I met Mr. Fleming at the end of the driveway, where I was dolefully flailing about in the drainage ditch looking for water striders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The fields and woods all had shallow ditches dug around them to drain away water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Men scurried past us without so much as their muskets, leaping into the ditch we had dug across the promontory, and confusion everywhere reigned supreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He pulled off the road, over the bump at the edge, and down into a ditch. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I must have been down in the ditch close to half an hour, still as a mouse. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he lurked by the latrine ditch waiting for some enemy to take a squat, the chances of his losing more than one quarrel would not be good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We made wooden boats out of cigar boxes, devised wooden paddles to which we twisted pieces of rubber and sent the cigar-box boats sailing down the ditch under their own power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, climbing out of the ditch and brushing myself off. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “You deserve better than a cook. Better than a ditch digger.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If there was no village, he slept in a ditch by the side of the road or under a tree in the forest. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I felt suddenly frustrated that I’d ditched all those pep rallies. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The two scouts who had ditched Billy and Weary had just been shot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Dawn Celeste’s country, everyone gets do what they want to do, and that means he can run and Annabelle can ditch him when she needs to. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And Pomp, hearing of change, mentioned his experiments in the fluctuation of swamp-water in ditches, which he hath conducted in his idleness, but which speculations would do honor to one of our academicians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My bag was heavier now than it had ever been, so I hesitated on the front step, debating whether to ditch anything. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Me and some of my friends are ditching school to come support y’all.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The Dominican government has used much concrete to make this ditch, to bring water to the cane fields when the rains fail. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A line of men, comprised of players and audience alike, formed between the playhouse and the nearest drainage ditch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Deep into wet pits of clay, into sticky ditches, up slippery slopes I would struggle with the pail. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The car wound up backward in a ditch. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Roy Lee stopped to let me go throw up, and when I came back from the ditch, the other boys had climbed up on a stone wall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “What was it like,” he asked, “when you dug ditches for the rebels?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The rat captains marched off to the ditch to make ready. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At break time, everyone runs out to the iron bridge, because lying in the ditch below is a dead woman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He walked down the ditch beside the highway, below the shoulder of the highway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog’s mercury in the wood, blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Woundwort would give them tasks—to search for hlessil in a certain direction or to find out whether a particular ditch or barn contained rats which could later be attacked in force and driven out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry Metelmann said, “We had to respond by throwing ourselves into ditches or dashing into bushes or other shelters.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the ditch, Hazel overtook Haystack and Dandelion under a clump of brambles. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only Thursday and I’d only been ditching class for four days, but I was getting homesick for my regular routine. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Down a block they had put in new pipes under the street and dug a swell deep ditch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He watched the weeds in the ditch speeding by. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The water not deep, Donay. And anyway, we don’t have to stay always in the ditch. Is just to get past guards. Other times we can walk along, you know.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After the zafra over, I work on drainage ditches for rice, I clear weeds, I cut and burn chaff. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry turns right, and we follow the rocky path, avoiding the boulders and ditches along the way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the base camp the observers were instructed to lay prone in ditches excavated to protect them from the blast, with their feet pointed toward the tower. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You can ditch us. Cal’s getting demoted back to stage manager.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She’s finally ditched her nightgown and is wearing her white robe. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Instead, he began plans for ditches and outlets for the river. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Screw this, I thought, and for the first time, I imagined just going back home, ditching the Great Perhaps for the old comforts of school friends. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Charles coughed, his eyes fixed on a point across the room, and began rather mechanically to tell the story of the apartment key and the car in the ditch and the olives and the Bisquick. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z How many ditches, in this one year, have I dug? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I felt bad about it, because I missed Seanie, but since they were roommates, I couldn’t expect him to ditch JP just so he could talk to me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They came upon the road unexpectedly and he stopped the boy with one hand and they crouched in the roadside ditch like lepers and listened. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was always being ditched in Pittsburgh by people who did not want him with them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "I can ditch it if you want, baby," I joked. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The coast was clear, and the chaplain jumped out of Major Major’s office through the window, darted swiftly around the comer of the tent, and leaped down inside the railroad ditch to hide. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The first real work in Jackson Park began on February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage ditch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Together they slunk off down the ditch, running crouched over to the south-east corner of the wall where it was relatively quiet. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Fernanda feared that he was as crazy as his twin brother when she saw him taking the measurements, and even more when he told the digging crew to make the ditches three feet deeper. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There’s the normal stuff you’d expect to see in a drainage ditch: old tires, rusty shopping carts, broken sofas that seem to have fallen from space—a brand new obstacle course. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I stole it from the factionless. They fix them up. It wasn’t easy to get it to start. Better ditch those jackets, girls.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z On one side was the creek, on the other a ditch so deep that if you got in it you’d never get out without a mule team. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The tipple area was locked at night, but just inside the tree line on the mountain, there was a deep drainage ditch that went underneath the fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To his surprise he discovered that there was a man sitting in the ditch, leaning against a signpost. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The sluggers had ditched the phone but left the tape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Some of the vehicles lying across the ditches had been shot up in air attacks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I shine the flashlight over the wreckage and think of the burned ditch behind it and it can only mean one thing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Immediately beyond the brambles, the ditch was closed by a pile of earth, weeds and rubbish. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A good letter could get you a position in the better cohorts, sometimes even special jobs like legion messenger, which made you exempt from the grunt work like digging ditches or conjugating Latin verbs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There is only plunging night and owls calling from the trees and bats straining insects above a roadside ditch. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “She can sit where she likes,” I say, reminding myself that Maddy has ditched me twice since school started. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Nobody ought to die the way he would have—lying in a ditch, drowning in mud and whiskey and his own vomit.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The worst was the time I had to stand in a ditch filled with icy water to my waist. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Who knows where that bag wound up; probably in a ditch somewhere with a pile of other bags of bones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He was a junior now, but back when he and Cherie were in ninth grade they ditched school all the time, wandering through the city with their friends, looking for fun, courting trouble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh God, Via,” said Mom, remembering now how she had completely ditched me last night. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He took his foot off the gas pedal and looked for a place to turn around, but the road was narrow, and on either side the ditches were muddy and flowing with the run-off. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want to play ditch the Doofus?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Ben and the colonel were urinating in the ditch that paralleled the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran into the ditch and through the thorny hedge to where they stood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As the incline began in earnest I saw three cars pulled off near the ditch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The guy following us is a total doofus. As soon as you can ditch him, let us out, then keep on going to the bridge.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Paul spent the night frantically helping to build fortifications—dirt walls and ditches that could protect them from musket fire. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z That was all I did when I ditched—chilled and smoked. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Daddy still had on his work clothes, but he’d taken off his jacket and loosened his tie, like he was going to dig a ditch in his suit. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was scathingly critical of the small hole that had been gouged into the side of the ditch, roundly cursing any creature who dared to complain of difficult obstacles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I saw you walking toward the food court when I was on the Demon, so I ditched the guys after and headed back to find you, to talk to you. Then I heard you scream.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Several guerrillas roughly pulled him out of the ditch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The attackers bared angry fangs at her from the cover of the ditch—of all the Redwall defenders the big badger was the one they most hated and feared. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I heard a wagon coming before I saw it and dropped do\\\\ n into the ditch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the dead bodies of the girls were found in a shallow ditch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If we made the heat shield and outer hull detachable, they could ditch a lot of weight after landing at Ares 3, and have a lighter ship for the traverse to Ares 4. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us cowered together in silence another three hours until my mother returned from the ditch where she had been hiding. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There were gray slagpools of melted glass in the ditches and the raw lightwires lay in rusting skeins for miles along the edge of the roadway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I only survived because I was on a good assignment, like you—not hard labor hauling stones or digging ditches in the snow. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Hazel and Fiver remained in the ditch, nibbling half-heartedly at the dark grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The two scouts, loving the walnut stocks of their rifles in the ditch, whispered that it was time to move out again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Liuzzo’s car swerved off the highway and crashed into a ditch. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile he had cowered in a ditch with his head in a culvert and caught the shrapnel in his side. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We huddled in the shadow of one of the half-completed breastworks, crouched in a ditch; and there situated, we watched the light infantry, alert with their danger, pass through to the outer fortifications. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The grass alongside irrigation ditches bolted toward the sky like some jungle weed shot full of hormones. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably? I feel bad for saying it, but if they got into a car accident I’d be relieved. At least that’s a reason to ditch your kids for two days.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Lourdes learns that many smugglers ditch children at the first sign of trouble. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z After a few moments he tried to get up, but a faintness came over him and a feeling of turning over and over in a ditch of leaves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They rustle in the ditches, they tug and hang on the hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A little farther. There’s a ditch and a pump house—and a willow tree. Do you remember the willow tree?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because you ditched me. The second you got placed in House Hyacinth, it was like I was a ghost. You haven’t sent me messages or called or anything!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The ditches prevented enemy tanks from entering German territory. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We never walked really on the road, but along the edge, so that we could vanish into the bushes or a ditch if anyone came along. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A deep ditch had been dug around it, with sharpened stakes inside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was fixing to sleep in a little ditch. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven rats, two ferrets and a stoat lay dead in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Back to the ditch and the meadow! Stay out of their range!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She delivered at just over five months and left the stillborn baby's remains in a drainage ditch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It had fallen into a little ditch, full of weeds and tree roots and ferns. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion Lannister could smell the salt in the air, mingled with the stink from the latrine ditches behind the slave pens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He paces on the flattened grass by the ditch, remaining remarkably clean, while the driver labors to change the tire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not jump the ditch, so he scuttled off down the road in the opposite direction from the way they had come. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He stumbled along the inner wall of the ditch, feeling the blood flowing over his foot. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me school is easy now, you don’t have to sit in a ditch learning your sums or the glorious history of Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Powell gives his name as Lewis Payne and makes up an elaborate story, saying that he has come to Mary Surratt’s at her request, to dig a ditch. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Beyond her walls the yellow tents of the Yunkai’i stood in orderly rows beside the sea, protected by the ditches their slaves had dug for them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My chance to ditch this dumb club is here, but it’s all wrong. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When they moved off and started back toward the trees, I had a clear view of the truck driver being rolled, unconscious and bound, into the ditch alongside the road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I was sorely tempted to ditch the rest of the day, at the very least Gym, but a warning instinct stopped me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z After a few moments, however, Bigwig followed Hazel back to the ditch and began to join him in scratching at the dry ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t left the building and ditched Tad after all. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I threw my underwear in a ditch when I left the barn. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He stood well back in the meadow behind the ditch, surrounded by his captains. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He stooped and scraped with a shovel, digging irrigation ditches by hand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It will be filed and forgotten about, I assume, unless I turn up dead in a ditch somewhere. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He might be in a cell, in a ditch, a thousand miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Feeling braced after his mad ride and the subsequent narrow escape, Cluny strode to the ditch’s edge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Filthy poisons. The government not going to trouble to keep the ditch dean, because the people who live along the ditch are all kongos “So there are many kongos living along the ditch?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A guy who had ditched me, who had haunted my sexual awakening with a nightmare of self-doubt. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He pointed it out and said, “Lupita, we’ll walk in the fields alongside this big road as far as we can. Then we can hide in a ditch if a car stops.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When I ditched I was my own person. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m about to rush the stage, thinking she’s having a heart attack, when she suddenly ditches the speech, the page fluttering to the floor, and speaks directly to the microphone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeological excavations uncovered complex systems of drainage ditches dating back to 9,000 years ago and becoming extensive by 6,000 years ago, as well as terraces serving to retain soil moisture in drier areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For hours, his father desperately worked to save the farm, chopping away brush and digging ditches. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I ditched family parties with her so we could drive to a nearby park and listen to her boyfriend play guitar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z As they approached the great ring of elm trees, they heard once more the quick sighing and rustling above them and one yellow leaf came spinning down to the edge of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad got disgusted every time we drove past one of those farm fields with their irrigation ditches wide as moats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then, he jumped forward across the ditch, and took a dozen paces quickly forward, eyes closed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I drove back to where Commander Lewis had originally dumped it, ditched it in the same hole, and drove back to the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Killconey marked a cross on the ditch wall with his claw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As Bigwig approached the hole that led into the ditch, he found two or three young bucks loitering in the run and, as usual, set himself to act his part as convincingly as he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On one of the Ridgewood hills, he set his foot down wrong in a ditch hidden in the grass. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m in a ditch right by the road. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well, yes, obviously he is a mighty digger of ditches and trenches,” said Loki grudgingly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Saw some bottles in the ditch down near Doc Murphy’s.,” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Next day I listen for talk of the ditch. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out at the field. The new one. The illegal one, the symbolic one. He was half-down in the ditch, Pacheco was, soaking wet, almost drowned, when they found him.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sea things retreating with the ocean’s tide, water snakes and muskrats went back to the green areas along ditches and in the dampest vegas. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I don’t get some paying work done, my ma will tan my hide tonight. I’m supposed to be one county over digging ditches right now.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then they could make straight for the Ferry over country that was open, except for a few ditches and fences. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Willys had fishtailed while it climbed the snapped branch and nudged down into the drainage ditch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To themselves, they seemed to struggle in the poisoned runs and to blaze with rage for poor Pimpernel in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Would they do better to stand and fight behind Deepwood’s deep ditches and wooden walls? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was given a choice—go home and ditch the coat, or go to the principal. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We are ditching our Sociology Seminar, and Kara is filling every space with nervous chatter, and when she laughs her black bobbed hair shakes like a skirt at her shoulders. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “But I think the Chicago experiment, in particular, has been a success for so long that they’ll be a little reluctant to just ditch it now. It was the first one with factions.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z We wander around awhile and then ditch our communicators under a bush. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I tumbled into a ditch that served as a garbage dump for the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z To Ranzi's surprise, in his home state of Acre—Brazil's westernmost region, a ranching center—PRONAPABA discovered half a dozen large circular ditches carved into the newly cleared land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now, lying in the ditch with Billy and the scouts after having been shot at, Weary made Billy take a very close look at his trench knife. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A huge ditch was dug across the white cemetery and a big ditch was opened across the black graveyard. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Yeah. 1 feel a little guilty about ditching my parents, though.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir,” I muttered, internally kicking myself for not ditching when I had the chance. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z You have to tell your mom you aren’t in a ditch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Normal for me was stolen bread and ditch water. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z A ditch full of elephant ear plants and soggy grass. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z She nodded toward the colored woman, who was nearly to the ditch that separated the unfenced pasture from the road. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Above the ditch the air shimmered and danced. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His name was Tanner and he was trying to kill the cockroaches in a drain ditch behind the apartments. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I thought you'd ditched class after lunch or something,” I say with a grin. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was the place where privies were set over open ditches. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The armed ranks of the horde were formed up in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Soon salmon and steelhead and trout from the Dungeness made their way up the irrigation ditch and gathered in schools in the pond. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They passed an ambulance, half in the ditch with one wheel removed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “And if the blind leadeth the blind, both shall fall into the ditch,” she told him, making her argument unassailable because it was clearly on the side of the Lord. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He pushed Bartsia to one side and hopped into the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We ditched my umbrella and jumped out of the way as the first panicked wave reached the building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But elil they met none and although they were continually on the watch for signs of an Efrafan patrol, they saw nothing but mice, and a few hedgehogs hunting for slugs along the ditches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get some soldiers and light a fire down in the ditch. Make it a proper blaze, good and hot.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Once it lands here, they'll ditch the heat shield, all the life support stuff, and a bunch of empty fuel tanks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman strides alongside the ditch under her basket of roasted corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Melisandre’s back was to the Wall, on one side of the deep ditch where her fire burned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I know this view. That drainage ditch...This is my mom’s old neighborhood, where she grew up. Hobby Airport is over that way.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We ditched our boots by the back door and washed up in a basin in the mudroom. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I ditched my bike and took a seat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The three were still in the ditch when Hazel heard a movement above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, we didn’t kind of ditch her. We ditched her.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if I really had been brave, I would’ve told Julia a long time ago how her ditching us made me feel. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I might have to stay there by the Shannon or find a door or I might have to go back out the country and find a ditch like Brendan Quigley with four goats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A good walk from the batey, behind the latrine, is a ditch. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to climb out of the ditch and fell back. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Somewhere near the top of Coalwood Mountain, I misjudged where I was and stepped off the road, disappearing under the snow into a deep ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d dropped into the millrace, the ditch where the river water ran to turn the mill’s wheels. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He tripped on something that he could not see in the dark and sprawled into the ditch on the side of the road, his right hand sinking into several inches of cold mud. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There was a ditch, overgrown with thick grass and weeds. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We were supposed to make the ditch deeper. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “I feel bad about ditching you on Halloween,” Maddy is saying. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z With a wild turn of the steering wheel, Grandpa landed us in a shallow ditch. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A group of mice led by Brother Alf tried fording the ditch and climbing up into the meadow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “One time she ran away from home. I can’t even remember what she was upset about. We looked for her long past dark. Found her curled up in a drainage ditch, sound asleep.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I ditched them, but it felt the other way around. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The road was muddy, the ditches at the side were high with water and beyond the trees that lined the road the fields looked too wet and too soggy to try to cross. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was harmattan, but because they feared the thunderstorms, they covered the ditches with tarpaulins spread across bamboo sticks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Billy made no reply to this, either, there in the ditch, since he didn’t want the conversation to go on any longer than necessary. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The cart still lay upturned in the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was pummeled spinning to the edge of the ditch and sent slithering down on his head and shoulders. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Tom pulled ditched cars free with his freshly painted two-ton wrecker; Dave sold gasoline, batteries, and motor oil and advised his customers to go home and stay home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He carried Hank forty yards and shoved him into a ditch before the mortar shell got him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She’ll ditch them as soon as she can, I know, to help with guide duties. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z I gripped the chain-link fence and edged down the mountain until I stood on the precipice of the ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A pickup coming around the curve veered and ran into the ditch—plantains, oranges, mangoes, yucca spilling all over the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicole Castro had faked an incoming call to ditch the girls that were crowding around her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They crossed a small, soggy-bottomed ditch before they got to the line of low, dark buildings on the left side of the highway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Alfhercht let his threads go, and the water of the ditch slapped together as it engulfed where the group had just walked up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Strong lost his hearing and ditched the gang to work in a tannery in Canada, or so the rumor went. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He swerved and nearly put the truck in a ditch two times before he stopped overcorrecting and got the hang of the subtle movements of the steering wheel. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She had no idea that I had been ditching since the first day of class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There he licked the hot blood off his fingers and watched as that ugly yellow cat calmly devoured a small water snake over by the irrigation ditch. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t a ditch the Nazis took us to. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The rats in the ditch were ordered to continue pressing home the attack until Cluny and his party scaled the walls from behind and fought their way across the grounds to open the Abbey gates. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then, only a few yards away, footfalls vibrated along the edge of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the ditch, all the other rabbits were squatting together, watching their approach. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d dug too many ditches, cut down too many cottonwoods, foraged in the cold, wet woods for too many berries and mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I ditched my apron and punched out again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They passed under where the water touched the ceiling, and then Ivan pulled threads to close the ditch of air behind them, forming an oblong bubble around them instead. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Even Melisandre’s fire was shivering; the flames huddled down in the ditch, crackling softly as the red priestess sang. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When my parents, shadowed by Fang, finally ditched the preacher and piled into the car, they definitely looked a bit bent. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Getting Mom to ditch my paperwork was beyond luck; it was another miracle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The block and tackle parted under the strain, sending the ferret and the rats on the level shooting down into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The Germans quickly found the wreck, questioned survivors, then shot them and dumped them in a ditch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The ditch systems were similar to those still used today in the highlands to drain swampy areas for use as gardens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tess moaned, crossing the road, hopping over the ditch, and running to the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He scrambled past him, pressing him against the side of the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Woundwort, on the other hand, had taken his rabbits into the ditch and then made use of it to get them down to the water meadow, unexposed to further attack from Kehaar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But Joey said that wasn’t funny, because if we didn’t find Chas and he got into trouble or something, it would look like we’d stolen his car and ditched him. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But before he went, Bigwig turned to Hazel and said, “You got yourself out of that ditch down there instead of me, didn’t you, Hazel? I shan’t forget that.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The others came and we all crouched in the mud behind the embankment, looking across the rails at the bridge, the line of trees, the ditch and the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z His right name was Compeyson; and that’s the man, dear boy, what you see me a pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s healthy to ditch class now and then.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He showed Richard the wide rectangular ditches where the excavations had taken place, the shovels and pans that had been used to brush the dust off the bronzes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The fields were bordered by poplars and crisscrossed by streams and irrigation ditches, on the banks of which tiny female figures squatted and washed clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She yells and we got to hide in a irrigation ditch all day with guys lookin’ for us, and we got to sneak out in the dark and get outa the country. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Ryu ditched his work assignment one day, and his disappearance was quickly reported. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Orr was in Rome, due back that same afternoon from the rest leave he had won by ditching his plane in the waters off Genoa. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Wait, I don’t understand one thing—why would you ditch class with a guy who thinks you don’t exist?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It is unfathomable to me that he was able to move, let alone drag himself a quarter mile through fields and over ditches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Plumpen had concealed himself in the ditch and traveled under cover until he was level with the gatehouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Good. You did well. I want them kept alive,” muttered Cluny as he walked across to the ditch and peered down at the captives. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A group of boys who were walking about ten yards in front of Richie and his friend had ditched what appeared to be a bag of heroin as the cop car approached. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On weekends he cut hay again with Harry Secor and dug irrigation ditches for local farmers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A few moments later Bigwig was in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We make for the ditch beside the road, and stooping, run along it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But we left enough dead bodies in the ditches that they would know we’d been through. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Anya hadn’t finished her stew, but her appetite evaporated as she thought about her father sitting in a ditch with a sword. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Finn walked in the ditch on the side of the road so that the passing cars wouldn’t mow him down. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He’d left his walking stick behind in the ditch, and whatever pain he might have been feeling, he disguised it well. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was surprised when Beatrice Leep ditched her teammates and sat next to him on the bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Fiver have taken shelter in the overgrown ditch and I came on to tell you. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled over and ran toward the people clustered by the ditch. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And where there are water-filled drainage ditches near lakes in Florida, there are often alligators. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Lush soft grass grew about its edge and a little ditch brought the water from the river to it and from it little ditches went out to the orchards. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When I find water in a ditch, I strain it through my ragged shirt and drink drink. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “Best make a poultice,” the woman says and I think she heads off into the ditch but that don’t make no sense. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Abby turned at the end of our drive and jumped over the ditch that ran by the side of the road. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z No one, it turned out, but that madman Yossarian, who brought him down with a flying tackle one day as he was scooting along the bottom of the ditch to his trailer for lunch. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “He jumped down into that railroad ditch and took off like a frightened rabbit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I left the road, crossed the ditch on a footboard and walked along the field beyond the ditch. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z According to Big Ma, we should look like we were prepared to sit at our desks at school and not to dig ditches in the dirt. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The ditch came up out of the buzzing grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was beside the mouth of a land drain which emptied into the ditch—a smooth, cold tunnel, narrower than a rabbit hole, but wide enough. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We rented one half of a double corner house in front of which ran a stagnant ditch carrying sewage. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The South Gut was a little ditch of water, one of many that crisscrossed Rass, and a natural garbage dump. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the tanks crashed through the hedgerows and over the ditches, the boys sprang out, blasting at the vulnerable undersides of the tanks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They ducked under barbed-wire fences and scrambled in and out of ditches that crisscrossed beneath the freeways, ever aware of the frightening, oceanlike roaring over their heads. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Sammy was the first to ditch us for the Kings, in the end. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Oh no, Chief. We’re keeping ’em nice and fresh in the ditch there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z How we were going to show our loser dad who ditched Mama that we’re worth something. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The taillight missed me by inches, and I tumbled into the ditch. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z They were blue and frozen, lumped into the ditches along the side of the road so cars could still pass. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z On top of the wall the mouse archers kept up their relentless hail of arrows into the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Of course, mine was not the realest of jobs either, and it was easy to ditch whenever I felt like it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I ditched that quick enough, but one thought struck me about that dumb high school I go to. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She might be angry about the irrigation ditch. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You going to ditch us? Dump us back with the rest of the ship breakers while you go back to being swank?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There’s more graffiti on the walls of the ditch here, too. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I fled with the body to the woods, heart churning—boiling like a flooded ditch—with glee. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind freshened, and soon myriads of dry beech leaves were filling the ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts across the dark miles of open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could limp the short distance, get under the floor and then make his way to the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Should I lie and tell her I was sick or should I tell her I hate school and I was ditching? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z At the tunnel entrance in the ditch, Fangburn and Killconey were madly thrust aside as rats, weasels, ferrets and stoats fought their way out of the tunnel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And Ryna had thrown herself all over the ground, lost her mind, and was still crying in a ditch. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He straddled the ditch for a moment, feeling the sun on his back, though the air ahead of him was very cold. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They chopped the edges of the ditches and dug mud out of the bottom to build up the sides. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here are both men!” panted the sergeant, struggling at the bottom of a ditch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel gangs lounged about, leaning on the sides of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We both thought it was mad stupid and ducked out before it even finished, ditched everybody we were with. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet, Jake, Tom, and Basil threw themselves to the ground while the rocket hissed overhead and then slammed into the road behind, skittering along until it plowed into a muddy ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The car spilled crazily off the road into a ditch, flinging Teece against the glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Choking, his face streaked with dirt and sweat, he clambered out of the ditch and ran blindly forward. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He shouldn’t have gotten out of bed and he shouldn’t have ditched me in that home of fire and smoke. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Now I saw that the depression was in fact a ditch that ran the length of the street. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We ran arm in arm, tripping through a field rent with furrows and ditches, falling and catching each other in an epileptic dance. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “I found him unconscious, face down in a ditch. A little more and he would have drowned.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I drank from ditches, and when I bent to cup my hands in the water, the ringing pulsed in my eyes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Hey. Hey. Let’s go somewhere. Doesn’t have to be school. Let’s ditch and go watch trains or go to the Column or something.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Question Quigley says he ran away from home and spent half the night in a ditch with four goats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had no job, for he regarded digging ditches for fifty cents a day as slavery. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We move over into the drain ditch, cause the traffic on this little street’s starting to build up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z White described how, after being shot by Boxcar, he was found in the ditch and rushed to the hospital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After that Joe stood on the ditch bank smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After issuing orders to his remaining captains, Cluny, accompanied by a score of assorted rats, weasels, stoats and ferrets, crept off along the course of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They found the bottom of the ditch trampled by boots and streaked with blood, and returned to tell the others. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stole into the ditch, taking the piles of books with me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s at the foot of the hill at this very moment, in that ditch where you were the night Holly and Bluebell arrived.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We crawled into a ditch and slept there, all four of us, until morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At this moment, she is probably lying in a ditch thanks to him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She had completely ditched her, forgotten their plans. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z In the ditch a frog opened its eyes, disturbed by some slight noise from the hedgerow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I saw that Hamlet’s mind was stuck on the idea of revenge, like a wheel lodged in a ditch. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But you don’t want them to think you’re dead in a ditch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I can help to make the ditch a bit more comfortable, and probably Fiver will be able to do with someone else to help to look after Hazel.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hell, it’s a Jim Crow army. All they want a black man for is to dig ditches. And in the navy, all I can do is wash dishes and scrub floors.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dandelion, the dashing storyteller, so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaves of unraveling newspaper blow into the rank water that runs in an open ditch; the newspaper wheels along the street, scattering its sheets onto the water, where they float as translucent squares of lace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It might send him into the ditch, he realized, but at least he’d avoid hitting the sedan square on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z With one bound I follow him and fall into a ditch that lies behind the hedge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel, with the torch beam behind him, had almost reached the other ditch when he felt a sharp blow on one of his hind legs and a hot, stinging pain along his side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That swing set was still back there, weeds growing out of the little ditch I’d created from kicking myself higher as a little kid. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z You can usually ditch or not: knows whether Holden is telling the truth. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, suddenly you’re a perfect student who never ditches? Nice try. Let’s go.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He jabbed the prongs into the ditch, under an open grate, and laughed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In the end, Baba and Dayah are shamed out of the ditch. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She raised her hammer even higher when Ernie jumped a small ditch and walked across the road into her yard, Genie following, slapping grass and dirt off almost every part of his body. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was something, all right, to see that slender young fellow standing debonairly at the bar among the truck drivers and ditch diggers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He fought them, trying to lie down in the ditch beside the blanket already partially buried in the mud. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, hello, stranger. So nice to be in your royal presence. You know you ditched choir rehearsal Saturday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Over the years, wordsmiths from Noah Webster to Jacques Barzun have suggested that maybe we should ditch Choose one: The girl that married dear old Dad or The girl who married dear old Dad. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured he must work on the levee and I jumped out of the ditch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Z would rather sleep in a ditch than become slave labor for anyone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With Joe’s help, he dug a ditch to divert water, illegally, from an irrigation canal flowing out of the nearby Dungeness River. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Twice that day already, he realized now, Major Major had come racing toward him inside the ditch; and twice that day the chaplain had stupidly postponed the destined meeting by bolting into the forest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I saw the grocery bags in the trunk and I ditched my bike under the pine tree. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z They dropped the bicycles and sat by a ditch beside the road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The man stumbled sideways, tripped on the edge of the bridge, and splashed into the drainage ditch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Come by the library after you’re done at practice. Are you sure you don’t want to ditch? I have Mom’s car today; we could go to Newbury Comics.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Is it like a concrete ditch where kids skateboard?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Their movement was direct and purposeful, quite unlike the earlier, haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded by his captains, Cluny was led down to the safety of the ditch. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Bigwig, “he’s in the ditch here.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Blackberry, alert and intelligent, looking first up and then down the ditch before he crossed it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and Cooter near ’bout died peeking out of the ditch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z If it’s too far away, I’ll have the perfect excuse to ditch it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He got out of the ditch again, and began to walk slowly around the perimeter of the cornfield. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z As he somersaulted into a clump of nettles in the ditch bottom, he remembered vividly the scent of beanflowers at sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in open country, at night, away from any refuge but an overgrown ditch, with a rabbit who smelled of blood, was crying uncontrollably and looked as though he could not move. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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