During the night he pushed his track up to the disputed crossing, 'rushed' the guarded engine, and ditched it.
From what I could overhear I gathered that the ditched engine is still in the way; that they are trying to roll it over into the creek.
But now the wrestling fireman had thrown the switch, and at the Rajah's command the Rosemary shot out on the spur to be thrust with locked brakes fairly into the breach left defenseless by the ditched engine.
So I ditched Ben and went in town to see if I couldn't see some name that would recall Lisa's.
Everybody ditched his luggage and made a line for the little corrugated iron building around the corner.
There was a rumour that one of the tanks had become ditched in climbing out of the road.
The tank commander learned by a runner, who on his adventurous little journey shot two Germans with his revolver, that the second tank was also ditched a few hundred yards away on another road.
The shock seemed to knock the deck right out from under my feet, and I was slammed hard against the starboard wire rail, which must have kept me from being ditched then and there.
This has continued for thousands of years, until now the ridge on both sides is seamed, threaded, cut, worn and ditched by these torrents into almost every conceivable shape.
He came from Portogruaro with the news that five new tractors were on their way back, and that some other British guns were ditched further ahead.
The moonlight was now bright as day, and one of Star's promised tractors arrived and finally succeeded in getting out our ditched guns.
At half past ten the Italians ditched a lorry full of ammunition just at the top of the road from the Battery position to Pec village, in full view of the enemy on Hill 464.
A beam like that on the highway at the lake paralyzed three men who were carried away, and later two others whose car ditched and who stayed paralyzed until the beam was turned off.
Then one of them said something which stimulated the others to frantic flight down the highway away from the ditched car.
He headed through the night toward the ditched small car.
She'd probably try to make her way to his ditched car.
But if they didn't know that Jill waited for him where the trail toward hisditched car began, then there was no reason to let them overhear the information.
The original castle of Carisbrooke consists of a high motte, ditched round, placed at the corner of a parallelogram with rounded corners.
The motte was ditched and banked round, but the plan does not show any bailey or any entrance.
There is no motte, but an oval area of 45 yards by 25 is ditched and banked; a modern imitation of a round tower stands within the enclosure.
It was ditched around, and is said to have had a stone keep on the top; but no foundations were found when it was recently excavated.
Renfrew Castle is entirely destroyed, but the description of the site, on a small hill, ditched round, called Castle Hill, strongly suggests a motte.
Newport Castle, in which the writer says that there are two mottes at Llanhyfer, the larger one ditched round.
A ditched motte with square bailey on the left bank of the river Edwy, near the village of Forest Colwyn.
The sub-grade should be well ditched in the center with cross ditches every fifty feet, as is done with the pole road.
After the poles have been laid, the sub-grade should be ditched in the center deep enough to carry away the water that falls in the middle of the road.
I see you've ditched your other gun somewhere--you had two.
The way you ditched that posse to-day I didn't think you needed a bodyguard.
They ditched the entire place to carry off all the rainwater that might wash down from the crest during a heavy storm.
The signal flag was displayed on the track and the lower end of the switch was opened, so that the train would be ditched if it attempted to pass.
About the time it got as far as Copah, we happened to have a mix-up in our Copah yards, with a ditched engine that Gridley couldn't pick up with the 60-ton crane we had on the ground.
Flemister, and a man whom Judson has identified as Hallock, were the two who ditched 204 at Silver Switch last night.
There was another interval of delay, and Lidgerwood held aloof from the group at the fire, pacing a slow sentry beat up and down beside the ditched train, and pausing at either turn to listen for the signal of Dawson's coming.
As you say, the operating force is as godless a lot of outlaws as ever ran trains or ditched them.
Perhaps you've forgotten the morning When your car of the Overland Mail Broke loose on a curve, without warning, And was ditched by the spread of a rail?
The rustlers might have got wind of the gun dash and ditched the locomotive.
This determination was shaping itself in the Kentuckian's brain when, after many futile backings and slack-takings, the ditched car was finally induced to climb the frogs and to drop successfully upon the rails.
Charges were freely made, now, that the railroad had deliberately ditchedits friends, and all that.
Gallagher's intentions were good, but about three miles up Horse Creek he ditchedthe car so thoroughly that we couldn't inhabit it; so we got out and walked back.
You said Gallagher ditched your car: did it block the track?
The early Norman castles in England and Normandy were of timber, and consisted of a ditched and palisaded mound and a court, or several courts, also ditched and if possible moated with water.
Then the moon arose and the stars came out-- He was ditched on the Gila Monster Route.
Down by the track in the jungle's glade, In the cool green grass, in the tules' shade, They shed their coats and ditched their shoes And tanked up full of that colored booze.
I consider we were successful in quelling one of the many sniper posts, but on account of being ditched were prevented from proceeding.
The four which started from Roclincourt had but little better luck, and though they advanced considerably further they also ditched and went out of action.
It will be remembered how on the night of April 8-9, the night previous to the first day of the battle of Arras, six tanks became ditchedat Achicourt on account of a bog existing under the hard surface of the ground.
On the following day only minor operations were undertaken, and salvage was at once started, the ditched tanks being dug out and withdrawn to refit.
The front line proved a serious obstacle to the tanks, in spite of their fascines, four of them becoming ditched in it on this battalion front.
In the first place, two of their tanks wereditched in crossing the front line.
In spite of this precaution the Hindenburg Line was in some parts so broad and deep that a number of tanks were ditched in spite of the fascines.
Bishop Badman was a queer old piece of theological confusion, who went over to popery, body, boots and breeches, believing that Oliver was a bounder and was soon to be ditched by destiny.
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