| 单词 | embank |
| 例句 | The lower section, from the embanked waterfront to the boulevards, is the French quarter, once the hub of colonial power. A revelatory road trip along the Algerian coast 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Historic England's flying archaeologists identified two round houses, separated from the surrounding land by an embanked boundary with an entrance on the southern side, opening towards a stream. Ten English archaeological finds of the decade 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The scheme also involved the huge challenge of embanking the Thames, creating the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea embankments. Story of cities #14: London's Great Stink heralds a wonder of the industrial world 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In the Ganges Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh and India, home to 170 million people, the surviving wetlands are up to 1.5 metres above the embanked and reclaimed land. Sea defences not enough to protect delta cities from rising flood risk – study 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In addition, various kinds of canals 590 and endiked or embanked lakes had come into existence, forming altogether a vast network of more or less stagnant waters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The water-power required by the ironworks was obtained by embanking small streams, to form ponds; as here at Ifield, where a fine head of water is still existing. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Embank′ment, the act of embanking: a bank or mound made to keep water within certain limits: a mound constructed so as to carry a level road or railway over a low-lying place. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z A roadway lined by trees, like a boulevard, runs between the houses and the river, which is embanked, like the Thames in London. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z At one point in about the centre of your section, the land dips and the line is embanked to a height of some ten feet, for a length of about half a mile. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z High embanked roads were made throughout the country, and large tanks, lakes, appropriately termed “seas,” were excavated under this arrangement. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z Sir,—What are the authorities about that they do not at once embank the river on both sides up to Richmond, and span it with five bridges between this and Gravesend? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 2011-08-20T02:00:11.307Z Similarly, the winding creeks are all embanked, but here dams of earth are sufficient to retain within its bounds the sluggish water as it rises and falls. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z Above it is an embanking wall of irregular masonry, and below it some remains of Roman baths, including five parallel vaults of concrete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z If you were to embank Lincolnshire now,—more stoutly against the sea? or strip the peat of Solway, or plant Plinlimmon moors with larch—then, in due hour of year, some amateur reaping and threshing? Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z In the South Level Sam’s Cut was dug and the rivers were embanked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The chief acts showing title to foreshore are, taking wreck or royal fish, right of fishing, mining, digging and taking sand, seaweed, &c., embanking and enclosing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z For, as Niebuhr observes, "the basin of the Po, and of the rivers emptying themselves into it was originally a vast bay of the sea," which by gradual embanking was confined within its present channels. The River-Names of Europe 2011-04-20T02:00:18.983Z This lady is buried in a little churchyard, Stratford-sub-Castle, that lies below the huge embanked mound of Old Sarum, overshadowed by a pleasant avenue of limes. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z "Is he empowered to pull down churches that he may use the stones to embank his drains?" The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The light that my embanking meadow laves Over me like a purer billow glides. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z It is navigable up to Rendsburg, and is embanked through the marshes across which it runs in its lower course. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The interstices of the country between these embanked heaths were occupied by water, rocks and marshes, producing abundance of firs intermixed with some birches, all covered with black and white filamentous Lichens. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z And, then, there were the woods which embanked and enclosed me all around. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 The rate of the advance of this new land has been accelerated, as before stated, since the system of embanking the rivers became general, especially at that point where the Po and Adige enter. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The wall stands almost entirely free, as at Arpinum—polygonal walls in Italy are as a rule embanking walls—and increases considerably in thickness as it descends. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" He had not gone three hundred yards before he saw a woman standing near the low wall that guarded the embanked highway from the water. The Silent Barrier In every such case, his road has ascended a tongue of d�bris, and has crossed the embanked torrent carried by force along its centre. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) It was they that embanked the Nile, turned morasses into meadows and piled the pyramids. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The question arose spasmodically until 1838, when the Corporation consulted with p. 87the Government as to the advisability of embanking the Thames all the way between London and Vauxhall Bridges, and, in Jan., Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Exhausted, he still made light of his achievement––climbing through day and night to arrive before the snow should embank around him. The Eye of Dread The Tajo, Tagus, which the fancy of poets has sanded with gold and embanked with roses, tracks much of its dreary way through rocks and comparative barrenness. A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain And, for the space of five leagues below, and ten above the town, the river has been embanked, to defend the adjacent fields from those inundations of the Mississippi which take place every spring. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe They greatly affect the troughs of watercourses, among whose rocks and embanked masonry they love to strike their roots. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life The embanked approaches to the Victoria Bridge had tremendous forces to resist. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Even as it is, much of the embanking seems to be of a rather slight character, and quite unfit to stand the tremendous tropical downpours of the early summer months. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia If you were to embank Lincolnshire more stoutly against the sea? or strip the peat of Solway, or plant Plinlimmon moors with larch—then, in due season, some amateur reaping and threshing? The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The road follows the direction of the river, sometimes running along the cliff, which once embanked it, and sometimes descending to the water's edge. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe The day may arrive perhaps when, having embanked the Thames, we shall follow suit to the Seine and the Rhine, by tenanting it with cheap baths for the many. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Some poor hard soils are only fit for crops of coarse rice sown after the embanked fields have been filled in the monsoon by drainage from surrounding waste. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Only as you approach Urga, north of the desert, would there be much in the way of bridging and embanking. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Carefully embanked on either side, the stream flowed swiftly, cutting the descent at right angles. The Car of Destiny Where we were, this creek was embanked very slightly; but, at about two hundred yards’ distance, on each side, there was a range of bluffs that followed the direction of the stream. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Again, he speaks of embanking, and says he has some experience on that head. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles In the Pachádh dams are built to divert the water of the torrents into embanked fields. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir All these estuaries are embanked by drift, as are also, in their lower course, the rivers connected with them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 The whole of this flat country is laid out into embanked rice fields and sugar-cane plantations. The Philippine Islands They had landed in a tiny glade beside a dank marsh of water, where ferns shoulder high were embanked. Tarrano the Conqueror From the bridge westward the river has been embanked and a promenade built and lined with seats, and this is a favourite spot on warm summer evenings. Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London The cultivated area is recorded as 1723 square miles, but this is enormously in excess of the cropped areas, for a very large part of the embanked area is often unsown. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir A drive through the Phœnix Park will bring one by the embanked river or through the northern side of the city. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway The young horse which drew us, as we were rattling down the high embanked road leading to Samaden, took a sharp turn to the right, where a road branched off. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother The river will be embanked, the morass drained, and piles driven everywhere, as has been done in the island, and the capital will rise here. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden Then a late train ran grinding over the embanked railway behind the house, and drew up with the screaming of brakes at Victoria Park Station, and distracted him again. None Other Gods The only comparatively flat land is on the banks above river beds, which are devoted to rice cultivation, the water being conducted to the embanked fields by an elaborate system of little canals or kuhls. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir The creeks are embanked with brick and lined with popular café's where incredible numbers of Arabs squat and eat or drink huggas and hacshish and the like. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Along the embanked roads, men, cattle, and donkeys file past against the sky-line, recalling the straight rows of such figures depicted so often upon the monuments. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Four men were employed at the well, and two more in guiding the water into the little embanked squares into which they divide their fields. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official In recent times drainage canals have been cut and the streams embanked, so that there is little to remind one of the existence of the lake save for the hamlet still known as The Marishes. The Evolution of an English Town The favourite crop in the embanked fields into which the water is diverted is jowár. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Nothing seemed to be moving except the Thames, whose embanked waters flowed on sullenly in their eternal act of escape to the sea. A Christmas Garland As to the misdeeds of the rivers, it might almost be said that every village was feeling the need of embanking and of going to the source of loss by planting trees in the hills. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Ferry-boats for crossing the river, fords wherever the canals were shallow enough, and embanked dams thrown up here and there where the water was too deep for fordings, completed the system of internal communication. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt It was then the rivers were embanked, the canals made, the great roads planned and constructed, and our communications established for ever. Ravenna, a Study The town stands on the flat alluvial of the Hwang-Ho, and is approached by high embanked roads. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 The town is drained; the river is embanked; our streets are paved; and we have a penny post. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 In the morning a Governor with imagination told me of the prefecture's gallant enterprises in afforestation and river embanking at expenditures which were almost crippling. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People They excavated a space, to the depth of three or four feet, and used the earth they threw out to embank the walls raised upon the edge of the excavation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 They regularly follow certain tracks, and these are embanked, like the course of a river, with wood or bundles of branches. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 If a road had to be made, or a stream embanked, or a trench dug, he was invariably called upon to provide the tools, and often to direct the work. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Daisy was strolling along the top of one of those great mounds of ruin that are embanked with mossy marble and paved with monumental inscriptions. Daisy Miller The land must be embanked with stones and then levelled. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People He went to one of the great windows, and looked out at the stiffly embanked river and the formal gardens which lay beyond it. The American The carpentry of that city, embanked and embowered in foliage, shared the picturesqueness of Charlestown in the distance. The Rise of Silas Lapham The ditch had been narrowed and embanked, and two tiny rustic bridges, of fantastical wood-work, spanned its dark water. Run to Earth A Novel The dredging and deepening of the channel forces the waterway to contract its flow, while the embanking of its sides enables the tide to slip down at great speed. The Naturalist on the Thames Where there was embanked roadway it was almost always uphill and downhill and it frequently swung sharply round the corner of a cliff. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People It is a wonderful country for atmospheric effects across the embanked swamps and sandhills that lie between the hamlet and the sea. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Above the embanked clouds of the twilight shone a pale star in a green border, and on the horizon, animated by the last breath of day, could be discerned the hazy silhouettes of distant mountains. The Quest At present our Sunday may be considered as so much Holy Land, rescued from the sea of oppression and vain luxury, and embanked against the fury of their billows. Literary Remains, Volume 1 I trust that if urban improvers ever want to embank the "Mall" or the eyot, public opinion will see its way to keeping this unique bit of the London river as it is. The Naturalist on the Thames The prow-shaped extremity of the modern island has been artificially produced by embanking the sites of two or three minor islets. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 No deepening, embanking, straightening, canalization of the river is to be permanently effective until all danger of flood can be removed. The French in the Heart of America The Romans seem to have done something toward the draining and embanking of this dismal swamp. Prose Idylls, New and Old When the rice-field is ready—a sloppy, muddy, embanked little quagmire—the ryot gets his bundle of young rice-plants, and shoves in two or three at a time with his finger and thumb. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter The Water Gate, the embanked wharf, the Cradle Tower, the Lantern, which he made his bedroom and private closet, the Galleyman Tower, and the first wall appear to have been his gifts. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 The fens of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, before the rivers were embanked, the water pumped off, the forests felled, and the reed-beds ploughed up, were exactly in the same state. Town Geology It lies on a lower level than the former one, and, like it, is embanked by a ridge of distant hills. Lost in the Backwoods The patch is embanked and frequently inundated, and each plant grows on a small hillock of puddled earth. The Hawaiian Archipelago The high road, embanked along the riverside, passes on amidst enormous rocks, between which glimpses of the valley are caught at every step. The Fortune of the Rougons As much as 5,300 yards of track was surveyed, embanked, and laid in a single day. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan The high-road, raised and embanked above the low-lying fields, ran eastwards in an undeviating straight line. Michael A few attempts had been made to deepen and embank the natural streams, but with slender success. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 He has embanked the hill to make little platforms for the growth of wheat in the light shadows of olive leaves. The Rhythm of Life He was like a jelly minus its mould, he had to be embanked; and that was precisely the source of her interest in him and the ground of her project. The Coxon Fund |
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