Along the left-hand dike they wheeled about; But first had each one thrust his tongue between His teeth towards their leader for a signal; And he had made a trumpet of his rump.
Nor did he tire to have me clasped to him; But bore me to the summit of the arch Which from the fourth dike to the fifth is passage.
Straightway upon the fourth dike we arrived; We turned, and on the left-hand side descended Down to the bottom full of holes and narrow.
The plan to put a dike around the city is perfectly feasible and so is a series of jetties.
I was six years city engineer of Galveston, and following the storm of 1886 drew plans for a dike ten feet high and extending all around the island except on the north side.
Galveston gave this plan consideration, and there is a map of the city in existence which shows it with a dike surrounding it.
It formed a dike," said Engineer Hartrick, in calling attention to this feature of the flood, "and had it not been for that dike we might not any of us be here now.
The dike by the sea was splendidly repaired without any dispute, for the estate once more belonged to the two brothers in common, and Xanthe found in Praxilla a new, kind mother.
The purity of the water was sadly dimmed, and the billows dashed foaming toward the sky, threatening in their violent assault to shatter the marble dike erected along the shore.
The rose-bush to which Xanthe went grew on thedike that belonged in common to her father and uncle, beside a bench of beautifully-polished white marble.
The cat crawled away down the dike in offended silence.
That cat had swum the rest of the way over the dike which he could not jump.
Look steadily to the eastward of that second dike and you will see the pink light upon the sands, which baffled every one until our friend Hamel came and caught it on his canvas.
They turned along the raised dike just inside the pebbly beach, and she showed her companion the narrow waterway up to the village.
The aqueduct, which was a sodded dike enclosing a great earthen pipe, had been gullied by some short-lived but furious torrent, and its pipe was broken at the place where Huetzin and the Tlascalan woman now halted.
When he had baked his last skillet of panbread and fired his last charge of dynamite in the heading, the dike was still unpenetrated.
But this apprehension was dispelled, when the front of the army had reached the first of the three ditches which intersected the dike of Tacuba.
The dikeof Tacuba was, like that of Iztapalapan, of stone, and so broad, that ten horsemen could easily ride on it abreast.
The three ditches divided thedike into four portions, of as many furlongs in extent.
In the days of Montezuma, it stood upon an island two miles removed from the western shore, with which it communicated by the dike or calzada of Tlacopan,--now called Tacuba.
Let us mount horse, and look at the dike of Tacuba.
The foe, relying on this simple precaution, had left the dike to its solitude; and the expedient for continuing the imprisonment of the Spaniards, was the warrant of their security.
Mrs. Dike gave her some beautiful silver playthings, with which she had a tea-party.
An old man by the side of Mr. Dike asked him whether Una were his grandchild!
On the dike, however, the glacier-marks extend for its whole length in great perfection, while they have entirely disappeared from the surrounding surfaces, so as to leave the dike thus standing out in full relief.
The general surface of the hill, consisting of rather soft mica, has been slightly worn down by atmospheric agencies, so that the dike stands out some three-quarters of an inch above it.
The reason for my saying so much on this subject is that Mrs. Dike and Miss Manning are very earnest for you to return to Salem, and I am afraid they will commission uncle Robert to persuade you to it.
Mrs. Dike was in the chamber; Louisa pointed to a chair near the bed, but I was moved to kneel down close by my mother, and take her hand.
Mrs. Dikeleft the chamber, and then I found the tears slowly gathering in my eyes.
Far away he saw Powell Dike running as though the old Nick was after him.
I think you are growing more queer--to accuse me," said Dike Powell.
Dike Powell, you are a villain, and if ever I get the chance I'll turn you over to the police.
I want to know what brought you out here, Dike Powell?
There was a rush and a crack, as the scout's fist met Dike Powell's ear, and over the man rolled, to bring up against the side of the barn with a crash.
An adjutant with an advanced guard had the curiosity to ascend the dike in order to view the country, when he discovered the Imperial infantry lying on their faces, and their horse in the rear, ranged in order of battle.
At three in the morning the enemy began to cannonade the prince's quarters at Hille, from a battery of six cannon, which they had raised in the preceding evening on the dike of Rickhorst.
This is nothing but a thick mound or dike of stones and earth, projecting half way across the river, and then running down the stream fifty or perhaps several hundred feet.
But, Splinter, my man, now since the enemy have occupied the dikein front, how the deuce shall we get back into the river, tell me that?
The rapids, formed by a dike of limestone stretching across the river, extend about two miles.
It was a rather uncomfortable pic-nic on that unsheltered dike in the keen November wind.
The main body passed along the public road toward Hancock's house, while Captain Saunders, with a small detachment, ambuscaded the dike that led to Quintan's Bridge.
Hence, in his case, the stream rose alarmingly high, but it did not reach an overflow, for the hand of a pious mother had thrown up in the heart of the child a living dike strong enough to resist the greatest violence of the swell.
This island is joined to the mainland of Friesland by a stonedike constructed in 1873 for the purpose of promoting the deposit of mud.
These rise generally only a few feet above the level of the sea, and are crowned by a single house standing on an artificial mound and protected by a surrounding dike or embankment.
Then he had the boy's two shoulders in his hands, andDike was saying: "Hello, pop.
But wheat and hogs and markets became negligible things on the day that Dike with seven other farm boys from the district left for the nearest training camp that was to fit them for France and war.
Dike looked from one to the other, alarm and unbelief on his face.
Of the roomful, Dikeand old Ben were the only quiet ones.
I think that he was playing a sort of game with himself, and that he pretended this was Dike become a baby again.
But Dike and his father were looking at each other quietly.
Young Dike smoked a solemn and judicious pipe, spat expertly, and voiced the opinion that the winter wheat was a fine prospect.
The look that had been on Ben Westerveld's face when he drove Dike to the train that carried him to camp was stamped there again--indelibly this time, it seemed.
Between Dike and his father there was a strong but unspoken feeling.
Dike was young Ben, sixteen; and old Ben had no need to try his hand at him.
All these things were dependent on him for their future well-being--on him and on Dike after him.
The great dike was like one of the dikes of Holland, with rich meadow farms behind it, which the high tides and spring floods had often drowned and spoiled in ancient days.
At last they found themselves close to the water-side, and made their two horses scramble up the high dikethat bordered it, and so got a shorter way to Passage and a drier one than the highway they had left.
Below, to the westward, the land was edged by a long line of dike which walled the sea floods away from some low meadows that stretched far along the coast.
Just then I got a flash of Dike Lawrence bearing down in our direction under a full head of benzine.
Dike carefully closed one eye and focussed the other on her.
Dike paused to let the horror of the scene sink in and then he fell overboard again with a moist splash.
The next instant a thick, reddish liquid began to flow sluggishly over the bosom of his immaculate white shirt and was lost in the region of his equator, seeing which Dike gave vent to a yell that brought the waiters on the hot foot.
Dike was escorting a three days' jag and whispering words of encouragement to it.
