Scooping out some earth at the rim of the flags which crowned the embankment wall, he made a hollow for the hinge and threw the rope down into the boat.
A second fence to climb and Robert found himself on the rockyembankment of the stream.
There the embankment shoots forth flames of fire, And upward doth the cornice breathe a blast That drives them back, and from itself sequesters.
Our tents were pitched at the northern extremity of a long flat, between the river and a serpentine lagoon, which left but a narrow embankment between itself and the stream.
We reached the plain just as the sun was descending, without having dismounted from our horses for more than fifteen hours, and as we rode down the embankment into it, looked around for the cattle, but none were to be seen.
The two lines of mounds which enclose the long low valley above mentioned are probably the remains of an embankment which here confined the waters of a great reservoir.
The bricks of this embankment are of a bright red color, and of great hardness.
The Wapato Canal completely blocks this water way, but a gap has been left in the west, or near embankment for the purpose of permitting any possible flow of the creek to enter the canal.
Not only this, but the canal embankment completely closes all avenue of escape for waste water from his south forty acres, heretofore utilized by his neighbor, Simon George, Indian, whose land adjoins him on the east.
Fire, which suddenly went out, sometimes appeared along the face of the rock or on the embankment of the further galleries.
It had not been made in a simple embankment of stones, but in a mass of schist, which had penetrated to this depth in the coal stratum.
The Canal tossed them back to the Grand Stand, and the Embankmentwas white with waving handkerchiefs.
As the horses turned to the left at the Corner, something white detached itself from the stragglers on the Embankment and shot down the slope at the galloping horses like a scurry of foam.
Chukkers leaned far out and slashed the oncoming bay across the face; and the crowds on the Embankment and in the saloon-carriages on the railway heard distinctly the swish-swish of the falling whip.
The waves dashed melodiously against the stone embankment of the road, and I missed the sound when the route left the bank and ascended to Saspul, where we were received with the usual music and dancing-women (Illustration 26).
Now we travel along the embankment beside the river.
Down the embankment the way we came, past the Savoy and the Temple, through Queen Victoria Street, and by the Bank to Bishopsgate Street we ran.
As we came down the narrow stairs and out of the old arched passages of the Temple, Dorothy said, “Let’s walk up the embankment to the hotel.
Already the Thames was wholly hidden, and the water side of the embankment showed only faint, twinkling lights, just on the point of complete extinguishment.
Did you see that they are tearing up the embankment down by the obelisk?
Finally, that arm of the cross-roads which overlooks the slope down to Gemioncourt ran partly on an embankment which could be used for defence as a ready-made earthwork.
Before the engine of that special was cut off to go scurrying down to the embankment where the skilled workmen were making preparations to dynamite away a half-mile of track, the operating man lifted his hand.
In many places the embankment for the roadway is 8 or 9 feet in height, and the roadbed is ballasted with the same material.
An embankment that the railroad had built for a branch down the valley was blocking the waters, and orders had come from New York to dynamite out that embankment.
The engineer hesitated, but Harriman urged and they courageously began the construction of miles and miles of embankment and of trestle.
But the commission won--it almost always does--and the men down at the embankment ate their sandwiches with a double thickness of butter.
For a time the projectors of the Erie considered making a solid fill, but the tremendous cost of such an embankment was prohibitive.
At that part of the road, or street, was an embankment about eight feet high, and a drunken fellow tried to pass over it to the people opposite.
Smith kept gaining ground on the left spurs of Missionary Ridge, and Colonel Loomis got abreast of the tunnel and railroad embankment on his aide, drawing the enemy's fire, and to that extent relieving the assaulting party on the hill-crest.
In a word, we ran off the line three miles or so from the start, and that we did not also run down a steep embankment into a river was certainly not Matvey's fault; we could not have gone much nearer the edge than we did.
Up and down the embankment we go, and the fish are leaping and struggling close in now; but C.
Down the embankment we rushed like a speeding centipede, straight at the fine hog-proof wire fence of the C.
The agent simply told us where the car would be shunted to, Blackmore figured out the best line from there over the embankment and through the woods to the river, and Roos undertook to keep up with the procession with his camera.
Captain Henderson strode along the embankment shining his flash-light and encouraging his men to do good work.
A bucket line was formed down the steep river embankment at this spot and under the glare of flaming torches the men worked filling the boiler till the Navy Machinist in charge of the engine stated the gauge was "full up.
The expert rifleman's test consisted in first firing ten shots slow fire from 600 yards over an embankment at the silhouette of a kneeling figure of a man with his arm raised as in shooting.
It has two women with bundles, and two soldiers toiling along the embankment in the plain, and a baggage waggon in the distance.
Of all architectural features of the metropolis, that embankment will be, in future, the most conspicuous; and in its position and purpose it was the most capable of noble adornment.
Louis could sympathize with these preferences; he, too, liked to walk up and down the Embankment in the summer twilight--though why such abrupt stoppages?
He met it face to face on theEmbankment somewhere between Charing Cross and the Temple.
Finding a hand-car they mounted it and pushed forward till they neared Etowah, where they ran on the break we had made in the road, and were precipitated down the embankment into the ditch.
With a frantic effort we broke the rail, and all tumbled over the embankment with the effort.
The embankment constituting this figure is more than 5 feet high, with a base 30 feet wide at the centre of the body, diminishing somewhat toward the head and tail.
At Newark, Ohio, when first discovered, they were spread over an area more than two miles square, and still showed more than twelve miles of embankment from two to twenty feet high.
Sergeant Doucet reached the top of the embankment at last and hurried past the navvies, who stopped their work to stare inquisitively after the representative of authority.
The embankment is not public property, and I don't trust these rascals who are for ever coming and going among the workmen to see what mischief they can make.
As Wilson dropped down the embankment on our left side of the railway, we found machine-gunners sheltering in a quarry, awaiting orders.
As we spoke, the enemy shortened his range; a shell skimmed the roof, and burst at the embankment bottom, directly under two Sikhs who were cooking.
Along these lines of embankment were large fields of cultivation, showing the country had declined in its agricultural industry, which, indeed, is manifest from every oasis I have yet seen in The Sahara.
In another moment it struck a rock or something and, with an awful crash, the whole train went off the embankment into the river below.
He had hardly spoken, when, with a whoop and yell, Skinny slid down the embankment and was running like mad up the track toward us, waving his hatchet in one hand and swinging a rope around his head with the other.
During this little interchange a procession of men streaming homeward in their hundreds came walking down the Embankment in twos and threes or singly, shambling past the loosely gathered assemblage about the bench.
The way of it was this: Sam was raisin' an embankment 'round one of his ponds, and Uncle Jim Matthews and Amos Crawford was helpin' him.
He said Sam run up the embankment with his spade, and set it in the ground and put his foot on it to push it down.
They were sitting together on a bench in the little Embankment garden where the Carlyle statue is.
