单词 | dyke |
例句 | Long, dyked ridges, foam-tipped with snow-white quartzite rocks, stretched away to infinity, north and south; here and there a naked granite finger pointed to the cloudless sky. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Perhaps these quadrupeds are as numerous in the vicinity of Philadelphia as elsewhere, as I have never examined a stream of fresh water, dyked meadow, or mill-dam, hereabout, without seeing traces of vast numbers. Rambles of a Naturalist 2011-06-04T02:00:13.503Z Before another rainy season, the Etruscans and the Romans, working together, had made a very fair beginning on the dyking and draining of the worst of the marshes and the bridging of bad places. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z Cairo has since been built into a considerable town by dyking out the rivers, and was an important naval and military point during the Civil War.... With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 When the Loyalists arrived in 1783 the dyked marsh lands produced about 400 tons of hay, but it was said that “if tilled and ditched they would produce much more.” Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 It was the free press of England—Elizabeth invoked it—which drove back the "invincible Armada;" this which stayed the tide of Papal despotism; this which dyked the tyranny of Louis XIV. out from Holland. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence The whole island is swamp, dyked like the Netherlands, and trenched and divided by ditches and a canal, by means of which the rice-fields are periodically overflowed, and the harvest transported to the threshing mills. Records of Later Life This region now is drained and dyked, but in earlier times it was a wilderness of shallow waters and reedy islets, with frequent "islands" of firmer and more elevated ground. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel We came, and found Nature omnipotent, but we challenged her––drove the steel road down the great cañon to bring us provisions in, dyked the swamp meadows, ploughed up the forest, and rent the hills. The Greater Power That means we can do nothing there until next winter, and must continue the dyking all summer. Thurston of Orchard Valley He keeps some dyking plans in the hall. Partners of the Out-Trail A great strip of Marsh lies contiguous to the city, some of which is dyked and yields excellent grass. History of New Brunswick She had been buried in the shore field, where a square space had been dyked off in the centre for a burial lot because the church was then so far away. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 He also dyked and cultivated a large piece of meadow or marsh, from which he gathered more grain than from any land which had been made from woodland into tillable land. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The French essential poetry seems to me to flow out into prose works, into their school of romances, and to be least poetical when dyked up into rhythm. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II The strange thing was, Jim's notion of dyking the marsh annoyed him more than all; the annoyance was perhaps illogical, but he could not conquer it. Partners of the Out-Trail This is the finest part of the Province for stock; from the extensive tracts of salt marsh which lie in this county, many thousand acres of which are dyked and produce abundant crops. History of New Brunswick Then the man's passion, so long dyked and barriered, had its way. Lady Merton, Colonist The shore, inside along the Texelsdiep, is dyked; on the outside, along the North Sea, it is beset with dunes. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 The city was walled around and dyked like those of the Middle Ages. The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days Still, you see, he's rash; we have an example in his dyking plan, and I would not like my money squandered. Partners of the Out-Trail By dyking and pumping, certain wise men had changed ten acres, of sand and heath, into pasture and land for plowing. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks The granite hills, here as throughout Midian, were veined and dyked with two different classes of plutonic rock. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Enormous herds were visible for miles in every direction, bulls roamed here and there, bellowing moodily, cattle and horses by hundreds waded and grazed in the shallow swamps across which the dyked path led. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond At the mouth of Cedar Creek there are about twenty acres of overflowed land which could easily be reclaimed by dyking. Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia "Let's see if the creeks could be dyked." Partners of the Out-Trail The' was only one man in it, but he was dyked out in Sunday clothes, an' purt' nigh froze to death. Happy Hawkins A description of their methods of dyking and constructing aboideaux, written in 1710, is interesting to those who are doing the same work now. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers SO within a while they saw a tower as white as any snow, well matchecold all about, and double dyked. Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 The latter stream has an extensive delta of tide land, fifty or sixty acres of which could be reclaimed by dyking. Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia Wheat seems to have grown very abundantly on the marsh when it was first dyked, judging from the census reports of those days and the traditions handed down. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers With milling, dyking and general farming, there was work at Prospect to keep all the members of the family busy, besides a large force of hired help. The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers |
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