Trees, torn down by flood and storm, floated and lodged in rafts, damming the waters back upon the land.
That forenoon a large mass fell from it, damming its draining stream, which at length broke the dam, and the resulting flood swept forward thousands of small bergs across the mud-flat into the fiord.
The place is a bad one; there has been a good deal of engineering work done in damming Hackley's chute, and jettying the channel over to the other side.
In one place they have made a lake by damming up the stream; in another their works have created an island, and they have made several falls.
Minneri, formed by damming across the valleys between the low hills which surround it with an embankment 60 ft.
The main underground channel does not receive turbid water, but that water runs in the ditches outside the town with four mills at the entrance and four at the outlet; and this may be done by damming the water above Romorantin.
The Rancocus River forms here a broad embayment, the damming of which was easily accomplished, and one of the best of water-privileges was thus obtained.
They correctly inferred that this indicated a damming up of the River at some recent time.
One Indian legend, probably the best known of their stories, is to the effect that the downfall of the bridge and consequent damming of the river was due to a battle between Mt.
The bath-house was a hollow square six or eight feet deep, formed in the river bank by damming up with mud the other three sides and covering the whole completely except an aperture about two feet wide at the top.
Immense labor was also expended in widening the natural channel at several points below the town, to prevent the damming up and setting back of the water--a fact I believe not hitherto noticed by travellers.
They were generally shallow pools formed by damming up the outlet of marshes, and they were among the most fruitful sources of endemic disease, and of the peculiar malignity of the epidemics which so often ravaged Europe in those centuries.
These travellers observed "a long chain of marshes formed by the damming up of a stream which had now ceased to exist," Chap.
In Switzerland, the most terrible inundations often result from the damming up of deep valleys by ice-slips or by the gradual advance of glaciers, and the accumulation of great masses of water above the obstructions.
Yet even now there is a project fordamming the Rhône between Pyremont and Bellegarde.
After more than an hour's ride among the mountains, they came to a lake formed by the damming up of a river by a tremendous stream of lava which had flowed from the side of a lofty volcanic mountain.
The talus which had lately been poured into the valley formed a gently sloping bank, twenty feet high, over which the Lachen-Lachoong rolled, from a pool above, caused by the damming up of its waters.
Her sobs were so wild and unrestrained that it seemed she had been damming them up for years, and now it was like the breaking loose of a torrent in the spring.
Directly in front of this island a party of miners called the South Fork Damming Company were making preparations to drain the river; and among its numbers we found the same ubiquitous individual so often mentioned as the Judge.
The American Damming stock was now among the best in the market, and was quoted in the Sacramento papers at ten thousand dollars a share.
The new-comers, who had taken the name of the Washington Damming and Mining Company, had already made considerable headway in the undertaking, and expected in another week to get to work in the bed of the river.
There was our two thousand vanished into thin air; we all looked rather foolish, and then and there decided that damming was a very unprofitable business, and we would have nothing more to do with it.
Damming the lake," said I, "whilst you damn us for making you wait.
Great improvements have been made here in the last few years at the cost of “a little damming and blasting,” as was remarked at the time.
In many cases they are due to the damming up of a stream.
There are other terraces in neighboring valleys at still different levels,--in Glen Gloy, for instance, where the one horizontal road was no doubt formed in consequence of the damming of the valley by a glacier from Loch Arkeig.
C] These two glaciers for a long time formed barriers across the western and eastern extension of this valley, damming back the waters which filled Glen Roy and the central part of Glen Spean.
An almost perpendicular mountainside has been encroaching on the river here for many years, possibly damming it all the way across at times.
There is some division of opinion as to whether these trees were submerged following thedamming up of the river by the slide which formed the Cascades, or whether they have slid in from the mountainside at a later date.
There was notation of some trouble because beavers were numerous and persisted in dammingirrigation ditches.
It is to benefit in large degree by plans approved by the Arizona Water Commissioner, for damming of the canyon for storage of water to irrigate land of the Virgin Valley toward the southwest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "damming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
