This German had come into the lodging-house asking for Dwire's clothes; he came twice, the second time armed with a letter from Dwire authorising him to receive the clothes, but they were impounded for moneys owing.
The observer looks directly along the course of the fault from the left foreground to the cliff beyond and to the left of the impounded water (after a photograph by W.
The water which falls in a neighboring upland is here impounded between two parallel, saucer-like walls and will flow under its head if the upper wall be perforated at some low level (Fig.
As the glacier front retires from the moraine which it has built up, the water which emerges from beneath the ice is impounded behind the new dam so as to form a lake of crescentic outline (Fig.
The now impounded waters found their lowest outlet near Sandy Brook, and in waterfalls and cascades the now reversed river falls one hundred feet to the bed of that stream.
The impounded waters soon find an outlet over the levee at some point higher up the river, and the waters flowing off through the timbered bottom lands, other logs are caught by the standing timber as in a weir.
Whenever a continental glacier, either in advancing its front or in retiring, lies across the lines of drainage upon their downstream side, water is impounded along the ice front so as to form ice-dam lakes.
Small lake impounded between the ice front and a moraine which it has recently built.
By this process the waters of the main river are impounded in essentially the same manner as are the rivers of humid regions by the deltas of their tributaries.
This temporary diversion known as “border drainage” was brought to a close when the partially impounded waters had, by cutting their way through the moraines, established more permanent valleys (Fig.
Their labour and their best energies were thusimpounded for the general good, in the sanguine expectation that they were being utilised in the progress and development of French colonisation.
Now, I am dead sure that the Colonel will ask me if I impounded 'Big Brindle,' and I'll bet I puzzle him as he did me.
On his head was a tall black hat, the puggaree had been impounded by one of his captors.
There would not be a sufficient head of water impoundedeach tide to keep the sea channels and approaches to the Mersey scoured and fit for navigation.
He must-- deliver up on oath, to be impounded during the pendency of action, upon such terms and conditions as the court may prescribe, all goods alleged to infringe a copyright.
The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
By degrees things quieted down, though there would be more or less uneasiness manifested among the impounded cattle throughout the night.
But taken and impoundedas a stray, The king of Scots.
Defn: The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Their effort is useless: Wheat is impounded and hunted up in vain; it takes to the earth or slips off like a frightened animal.
Thereupon popular instinct invents for the cure of the evil a remedy which serves to aggravate it: henceforth, wheat must not travel; it is impounded in the canton in which it is gathered.
Having been picked up by the count, poor Harold was treated as a waif, and impounded until a heavy sum was paid for his ransom.
But he did not drive them away; he impounded them within his bend, and at his leisure selected the fattest for slaughter, thus living literally on the fat of the land.
No wonder if the hardy bullock-driver became a cattle lifter after his team had been impounded by the station stockman when found only four hundred yards from the bush track.
Nile water, impounded during floods, irrigated the land during the long dry seasons.
River water, impounded for the purpose, provided the means of irrigating an all but rainless desert countryside.
Returning hastily to the Paradise, he led the animal away, impounded it, and then sat down in front of the corral gate with his Winchester across his knees.
Even the pound had yielded him nothing for over a week, the old patrons of Rawhide's stores and saloons preferring to ride twenty miles farther in another direction than to redeem impounded horses.
A reservoir of water was impounded and tremendous pumps installed.
Orchids abound, especially on the Atlantic side, and while the waters of the Chagres were being impounded in Gatun Lake, native boatmen would go out in their cayucas and gather orchids from the trees.
Things may ye fall in with there who may not be impounded in the snow like to elks, but can go light-foot on the top of the soft drift from one place to another.
No long story need be made of their hunting, for not very far from where they had taken shelter they came upon the elks, many of them, impounded in the drifts, pretty much where the deft hunters looked to find them.
Water was also impounded in a series of small ponds maintained for the benefit of fish and waterfowl.
At this locality an artesian well provided an abundant year round water supply, which was impounded into an artificial lake half a mile long and a little less than a quarter mile wide.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impounded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cloistered; confined; enclosed; restricted
