The principal streets, the Bundand the Nanking Road, run at right angles to each other, and the chief thoroughfares run parallel to these two.
Shanghai seemed more European on our second arrival, and the Bund on the front more attractive.
The Bundis broad, fronting the water, and is a popular thoroughfare.
In the event of the actual constitution of the Bund being shattered by war, the German states were asked whether they would be prepared to join this new organization.
These older tracts may either have been raised like the Ullah Bund in Cutch, during the period when the sediment of the Rhine was converting a part of the sea into land, or they may have constituted islands previously.
From his description it appears that, at that season, the driest of the whole year, he found the channel traversing the Bund to be 100 yards wide, without water, and incrusted with salt.
The Tigris was steadily rising throughout January and by the 20th was near the top of the bund running along the bank.
Creeping along the smallbund dividing two fields, we endeavoured to keep on dry ground; but were not very successful.
By the end of March we had a splendid bund across the middle line capable of keeping out nearly three feet of water; this being 4 ft.
The whole bund is in a very unsafe state: it was raised three feet after the last flood, but its width was not increased correspondingly.
We had heard most disquieting tales of floods; the water had burst the bund at Srinagar, and there was said to be ten feet over the polo-ground.
I dreamed a dream last night, and in my dream I was walking along the bund and came upon an elderly gentleman laying Naples yellow on a canvas with a trowel.
The German Bundof 1815 was a mere confederation between sovereigns or Staaten Bund.
The North German Bund of 1866 was a federation of semi-sovereigns, or Bundes Staat.
A small bund (embankment) separates the two parties.
On the tenth day, a ceremony is performed on a tank bund (embankment).
If those standing on one side of the bund cross it, a regular fight is the result.
If he had opposed the Bund actively, as he certainly did in a passive and deprecatory sense, the result might have been a serious hindrance to its progress.
Sidenote: An Imperium in Imperio] From the first the Bund was regarded with suspicion by not only English politicians in the Colony, but by a few of the more sober and statesmanlike leaders amongst the Dutch.
But now the local Dutch farming population had awakened to its real political influence--largely through the formation of the Afrikander Bund in 1881--and its representatives in the Assembly soon obtained a change in the law.
Hence, also, his hope that as British power grew in South Africa the Bund would eventually see the futility of its effort to make the whole country a Dutch republic, and would meet his policy of conciliation at least half way.
I entertain," said he, "grave doubts as to whether the path the Afrikander Bund has adopted is calculated to lead to that union and fraternization which is so indispensable for the bright future of South Africa.
So long as President Brand lived and ruled at Bloemfontein there remained, however, some check upon the Bund as well as upon President Kruger.
Brand's policy was to, indirectly and quietly, keep the Cape Colony and the Free State in harmonious and gradually closer co-operation instead of promoting that closer union of the two republics which was one of the ideals of the Bund leaders.
There is also the Kala-Weva tank, with a bund of twelve miles in length, which would, if perfect, create a lake of forty miles in circumference.
Among the most remarkable of these ancient works is the Horra-Bera tank, the bund of which is between three and four miles in length and from 50 to 70 ft.
Lights were beginning to twinkle on the bund when they drove back to the hotel.
Wide streets should be laid out from the Bund of the Yangtze far into the inland following the direction of the canal.
Thus a depth of six to eight fathoms can be secured right up to the Bund of Hankow.
The bund alongside the Yangtze should be reserved for commercial purposes and those alongside the canal for factories.
To create Pootung Point, therefore, as a civic center and to build a new Bund farther on along the left bank of the new canal in order to increase the value of the new land which would result from this scheme must be kept in mind.
A bund should be built from the First Bar Island along the north side of the new waterway, the west side of Honam to connect with the bund of Shameen, and the northwestern side of Canton city.
Another bund should be built from above Fati along the east side of Fati Island to Mariners Island thence turning southwest along the left bank of the new waterway.
This new canal would encircle nearly thirty square miles of land which would form the civic center and the New Bund of our future Shanghai.
The bund operates as the Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft and its propaganda center functions under the name of the "United German Charities.
Orgell identifying himself to Peter Gissibl as a representative of the People's Bund for Germans Living Abroad.
Illustration: Further evidence of Gissibl's tie-up with the People's Bund for Germans Living Abroad.
The agent's photograph and a sample of his (or her) handwriting is sent via the diplomatic pouch to the Nazi Embassy, Legation, Consulate or German Bund in the country or city to which the agent is assigned.
Schwinn, for instance, keeps a regular list of the German-American Bund members at the Deutsches Haus in Los Angeles.
A Nazi bund to direct this propaganda was organized secretly because of the government's unfriendly attitude toward fascism.
The Nazis are strong in Colombia, south of the Canal, with a Bund training regularly in military maneuvers at Cali.
The English Consulate looks out over the Bund, but it is such a different Bund to the usual one of handsome houses and gardens touching the water's edge.
Along the Bund or sea wall is a row of grey verandahed houses, looking very Eastern amongst their palm trees.
But in another month or two the Bund will be a model of neatness, swept and clean, and all this bustling scene will be hushed under the spell of winter, for the Peiho freezes in the end of November or beginning of December.
I'm bund till own it was ill my pairt to do as I did; but the best o' us wull gang astray whiles.
The tank is now under cultivation, but faint traces of the bund are said to be still visible.
They peg a creeper from one bund (mud embankment) to another, parallel to the tank bund, four inches above the water in the field.
The 102 other pits were, it is said, in the fields round the bund (embankment) of this tank.
I am told that it goes to Corbal, ten fursungs from Persepolis, a large place in the province of Kerman, where its waters are received and kept up by a very considerable dam called the Bund Emir, i.
Before we reached it, we skirted a small artificial lake called the Bund Kohrood, the waters of which are supplied by the river of Kohrood, and the melting of the snows of the adjacent mountains, and are confined on the N.
When a tank bund (embankment) was under construction in Mysore, there was a panic among the workmen, owing to a rumour that three virgins were going to be sacrificed.
This journal was originally the organ of the association for the protection of mothers, more especially unmarried mothers, called the Bund für Mutterschutz.
A few years ago, when the German Dürer Bund offered prizes for the best essays on the training of the young in matters of sex, as many as five hundred papers were sent in.
Austria proposes that the Bund shall take action against Prussia’s helping herself in Holstein, and mobilise the whole army of the Bund.
On June 1 Prussia declared to the assembly of the Bund that she would at once disarm if Austria and Saxony set the example.
The Bund now calls on the “revolters” to discontinue the war, which they proceed to do.
On the 16th the Bund requested Austria and Bavaria to go to the assistance of the Hanoverians and Saxons, who were already attacked by Prussia.
Beust has put the question before the assembly of the Bund, with what right can the allies accept the cession of the duchies from a king whom the Bund has never recognised as their lawful possessor?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bund" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
