They now held only the island and the east shore opposite, with no line of retreat except the Mississippi, because the land line on the east shore was blocked by swamps and flanked by the Union armies in western Tennessee.
At the first of these, called the "Five Finger Rapids," the river is partially blocked by high islets, which cut up the stream in several portions.
At all other seasons they are, or were in those days, blocked up with impassable snows.
The carriages of the nobility and gentry were blocked up among railway goods-vans and Parcels Delivery carts.
This modern Tavern was part of the offices of Craven House, and the adjoining stabling belonged to the mansion; the extensive cellars still remain, though blocked up.
Having blocked the passes to the best of his ability, General Hunter hoped for the best.
We were aware of him climbing over the noisome litter of the dead giant's body whichblocked the tunnel's further end.
Looking back, I could see only the lower part of his legs blockedagainst the outer light.
There is no evidence that Ralegh, who must have heard of the transplantation, knew the new town directly blocked the approach to the Mine.
He admitted further that his patent did not formally authorize him to remove the Spaniards when they blocked the path to the Mine.
But other Indians on the borders blocked further progress by firing the savannahs.
The same defence which he might have conclusively urged if soldiers, descending from the original San Thome, had blocked his transit, is justly pleadable for his men's voyage on the Orinoko past the new town.
The very roads threatened to beblocked with the multitude of high-born supplicants, till the old disciplinarian, shocked at the indecency of the scramble, imperiously enrolled them into regiments and insisted on some order being observed.
Lambert's troops blocked every road, and it was found necessary to take Clarges into their confidence.
Then through the very channel that the Dutch prize should have blocked the enemy came on.
You'll have time to go and wash yourself first"; and he deliberately blockedmy way.
For the three western arches, two of them doorways now blocked up and the central one open, indicate a type of crypt which is generally held not to have been used later than the beginning of the twelfth century.
Two arches blocked with masonry in the western wall and the construction of the west window indicate this original intention of adding a nave.
No one could escape, for Beybars had blocked all the entrances.
The entrance is nine feet wide, and was blocked by loose bricks, flush with wall face, as seen in the photograph.
In the year 1863 the two branches of the White Nile were blocked above their junction at Lake No.
The parish must have been an uncivilized place in former times; there was an accusing record beneath the west window of the tower, in the shape of a blocked up entrance.
The boys watching the match, and the other spectators, some agreeing with, and some disputing the verdict, rushed into the centre of the ground, and completely blocked the open space still shouting vociferously.
As she rode through the streets the crowds blocked her way, and eager admirers rudely jostled each other in the struggle but to touch the horse that bore her.
Marching around Paris by way of Auxerre, only Troyes blocked the way, and its garrison, panic-struck, evacuated the town after a show of resistance.
The wind, blowing like a hurricane for fifteen or twenty hours, rendered it impossible for man or beast to live abroad, and has blocked up the roads so that they are impassable.
It is rumored here that Admiral Hopkins is blockedup in Newport harbor by a number of men-of-war.
Let us go down," cried he, "before our only way of escape is blocked up.
The oxen, as they could not work to advantage at sudden turns, had frequently to be unyoked, and the cart blocked to prevent it from sliding back.
The private rooms of the restaurants were still ablaze, the cafes threw bright radiance across the road, the pavement was blockedby their tables and chairs and customers.
He refused the only chair which blocked up the narrow passage where scarcely three customers could have stood in a row.
Boris blockedthe fist with a sweep of his long arm and clinched.
Blocked from his vision for the time being by an intangible something which lay like a dark shadow across the path.
