Wilson [44] that the section of the Moyar river "stretching from the bottom of the Pykara falls down to the sheer drop into the Mysore ditch below Teppakadu is occupied principally by Carnatic carp.
Constructed of wood in the shape of a large rake head with long teeth close together, they are fastened securely across the ditch or runner at a slight angle with teeth in the gravel.
Dorothy did as she was desired, and thus supported gazed upon the moat below, where it lay a mere ditch at the foot of the lofty wall.
She rushed at hedge and ditchas if they had been squares of royalist infantry.
The one had been a soldier at Liege, and had managed to scramble across a ditch after his three days' tramp to Holland, although the sentry's bullet whistled uncomfortably close.
Certain undefinable moral qualities, such as the last-ditch spirit of the old British Army on the Yser, did not come within their scope of reckoning.
Here, at the moist edge of the road, the ditch stone-crop is opening its yellow-green flowers, each one a study in perfect symmetry.
Then some fool, the first gate or stile we come to, is sure to show off his vaulting, and upsets himself in the ditch on the opposite side, instead of going quietly over and helping the damosels across.
In 1846 a furious thunderstorm caused the Fleet Ditch to blow up.
Of course, with the disappearance of the Fleet Ditch the bridge also vanished.
This fort, like that of Canajoharie, has no ditch and has a large swing-gate at the entrance.
The old canal was a ditchfollowing the line of the Mohawk and other rivers and creeks.
He wiped his glasses the better to behold his beloved water, then seized a hoe and strode down the main ditch to open more laterals.
They joined him on the edge of a dry ditch and looked down.
A five-inch stream of sparkling water splashed into the shallow main ditch of his irrigation system and flowed away across the orchard through many laterals.
It sounds good for a last-ditch stand," said Mason.
Fierce and vindictive in his hatred for the superior race, he determined to fight to the last ditch rather than to capitulate to the men under Jackson, Coffee, and Floyd, who headed the Georgia militia.
Provisions were scarce, but the courage of his soldiers was not lacking, and he determined to fight to the last ditch rather than to capitulate to such an enemy.
Next morning gallant Ecuyer was watching the woodland through a glass, when several painted warriors strode from the shade of the trees to the ditch beyond the palisades.
A narrow track from Foster was cut between high walls of impenetrable scrub, and it soon became like a ditchfull of mud, deep and dangerous.
They said the Government ought to have asphalted the ditch for them.
At this time there was a mining registrar at Foster, as the new diggings at Stockyard Creek were named, and some men, after pegging out their claim at Turton's Creek, went back down the ditch to register them at Foster.
A god who can be dragged away and lost in a muddy ditch by a drunken priest!
But I had to crawl on hands and knees a pretty long distance, in a ditch filled with mud, not to be seen, and escape death.
I knew the cars might jump the track at any moment and ditch the locomotive, sending the fireman and myself to quick death; but we must take the chances so long as there was a possibility of stopping the runaways.
Whether my former conclusion was correct and he had been shaken from his narrow hold into some ditch or gully, or whether he was hurled to destruction at the time of the explosion, I cannot say.
The prince stepped a little aside, and wrote as follows, suitable to his wretched circumstances: "The blind man avoids the ditch into which the clear-sighted falls.
When the troops fell back to the breastworks, Pillow, instead of getting down in the ditch as the others did, took his seat on the parapet while several comrades behind him loaded guns which he fired at the enemy with deliberate aim.
Near the top of the hill there was a ditchleading from what appeared to be an old icehouse, and in this ditch we made the last stand and fought the Yankees until they were close up.
This order was obeyed in double-quick time, all hurrying over the breastworks, getting on the reverse side, into the ditch half filled with water, preferring the cold water to hot lead.
There was no possibility of rescue, so it was die in that ditch in a few minutes or surrender; we chose not to die then and there.
Dey laughs an' tells her how yaller he am an' dey buries him in a ditch like a dog.
We had our wurk ter do, of course, but mammy ain't had ter ditch ner plow no mo'.
The played bowl must itself run into the ditch without touching either of the stationary bowls.
Even if it run into the ditch or be driven in by another bowl, it will yet count as alive.
The end ditch within the limits of the space is, according to Scottish laws, regarded as part of the green, a regulation which prejudices the general acceptance of those laws.
Beyond the ditch are banks generally laid with turf.
Where two fields are separated by a hedge and ditch the boundary line will run between the hedge and the ditch.
The player who drives the jack into the ditch between the two bowls scores three.
XI THE LAST DITCH It was a mark of the later and larger development of David Kent that he was able to keep his head in the moment of catastrophes.
This done, every soldier then began to dig a little individual ditchfor himself.
With two quick jumps he was out of his ditch and alongside Leon.
Scarcely had he spoken when a 105-millimeter shell dropped directly into the ditch next to Earl's.
This crater is much larger and safer than your ditch and lightning never strikes twice in the same place you know.
Lying side by side in that shallow ditch the two young soldiers ate their luncheon.
With a quick jump Leon sprang out of the ditch and over into the one Jacques had formerly occupied.
Capers in crossing a ditch had mired in its bottom and had found some difficulty in extricating himself; that the war horse of the male persuasion ridden by Col.
Sitting in the ditch with our faces turned rearward, some one in the ranks spied a squirrel in the branches of a tree standing near our battery.
A little creek and a drainage ditch have cut away varying portions of them, and they merge insensibly into the soil and gravel on either side.
The central space, between the two, is paved with large stones which apparently pass under both platforms and extend from the foot of the east wall nearly to the west wall, a slight ditch separating it from the latter.
They have not been much disturbed by cultivation; the creek and a drainage ditch have cut through several of them, but, as usual, there is nothing in the construction to show their purpose.
One hundred hours through this inland sea, and we are at Suez waiting our turn to enter that great highway of nations, that sandy ditchcut through the desert, that connects the eastern with the western globe.
This morning the Peiho has dwindled into a ditch between extensive mud flats, and we are constantly aground, our five brown coolies struggling and sweating in the quagmire of soft mud under a broiling sun.
Last of all, we dug a ditch all around our house to keep the water from draining down into our room and driving us out.
And even then, for the actual assault to succeed, the deep wet ditch at the foot of the bastion had to be crossed.
On February 8th, at one in the afternoon, Captain Roese had gabions flung into the ditch of Hautes Perches, sprang into it with five sappers, and rapidly scaled the parapet by the steps hewn in the scarp.
Meanwhile, however, the artillery of the attack had unquestionably become very much superior to that of the defence, and, in spite of every obstacle, the saps were pushed on to the edge of the ditch of Les Perches.
Most of the men in the ditch were still able to escape.
