The same persons who found fault with Washington's levees would probably have regarded the practice introduced by Washington as anti-republican, as it is practiced by the sovereigns of Great Britain.
The levees of the President, and the evening parties of Mrs. Washington, were said to be imitations of regal institutions, designed to accustom the American people to the pomp and manners of European courts.
Free levees were said to savor of an affectation of royal state.
One glance at the emptylevees told you of the town's dead glory.
I saw the leveespiled with merchandise, and a score or more of packets rushing fresh cargoes ashore--mates bawling commands down the gangplanks where the roustabouts came and went at a trot.
They] will find their levees crowded with silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of officers without soldiers.
Defn: An embankment to prevent inundation; as, thelevees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
This gave him an opportunity such as he did not have at the levees to unbend and to enjoy himself.
The President should hold levees to receive "visits of compliment," and two days a week might not be too many for this purpose.
As I advanced in years it was more strongly developed; becoming, for many reasons, a cause of serious disquietude to my friends, and of positive injury to myself.
I had but one consolation--in the fact that the imitation, apparently, was noticed by myself alone, and that I had to endure only the knowing and strangely sarcastic smiles of my namesake himself.
During the five years of my residence here I was never able to ascertain, with precision, in what remote locality lay the little sleeping apartment assigned to myself and some eighteen or twenty other scholars.
What chance--what one event brought this evil thing to pass, bear with me while I relate.
The Lamartine, on returning to Stillwater, found the shores and levees submerged, and passing over them landed her passengers directly from the boat upon the floor of the Minnesota House, on the southwest corner of Chestnut and Main.
The Duke of Newcastle's crowdedlevees were his pleasure and his triumph.
The lost women-souls of the levees are but a pitiful and small part of the army of Vice.
We are but describing one of the levees of the city.
Ask for cigarettes in any den of infamy in the levees of the city, and this brand will be forced on you.
The passengers cheered; the crowds on the levees answered, while fluttering flags blossomed from boat and adobe fort and trading posts as wild roses blossom in spring.
The levees were no longer crowded with bales of merchandise, piles of buffalo hides and boxes of gold.
The contractors profit financially by the "Levees Only" system.
The rest of the people, wherever they dare to entertain an independent opinion, recognize that the Mississippi Valley can never be rightly developed so long as the present "Levees Only" system continues to prevail.
The purpose of this outlet and wasteway would be to make it impossible that in any year of unusual floods the levees or banks should be subjected to any greater hydrostatic pressure than in ordinary years.
It is on the western bank of the river, and for the most part on the southern bank of the bayou; and is protected from both by that continuous system of levees which alone saves southern Louisiana from yearly inundations.
We are totally tired of the monotonous flow of the muddy river, and the interminable parallel curves of its natural levees and the glassy stretches of ocean which seem to slope upwards toward the eastern and western horizon.
The Commander-in-chief held his levees at Port-au-Prince on certain days of the month, all the year round.
The chief object of curiosity was Napoleon himself; and English statesmen, of the highest class, were among those who now thronged the levees of the Tuileries.
These levees extend the whole length of the town, and are lined with steamers of all kinds and classes, but all built on a similar plan; and the number of them gives sure indication of the commercial activity of Cincinnati.
An office, that yielded several hundred pounds sterling annually, the business of which consisted in little more than attending the levees of the great, and writing letters to America, was worth preserving.
At the rear of the hotel, in the hollow between the levees and the rivers, is "Camp Defiance," which must be the base of operations of any force proceeding down the Mississippi.
A few miles above the wharfs and large levees of the city, the country really appears to be a sea of light green, with shores of forest in the distance, about two miles away from the bank.
Beyond the levees there were occasionally large clearings and plantations of corn and cane, of which the former predominated.
Our chart shows the levees as beginning above Caruthersville, but we saw nothing there except a little stone dumped alongshore.
The levees here are simply banked fascines, stone land earth, to keep the river from cutting into the shores.
When the cutting approaches the levees new ones are constructed further back; and the intervening country is handed over to its fluvial master.
We soon discovered that levees are not meant as restraints of this erosion--the river flows how and where it will--but to protect against the flood waters.
On the levees along the canals and on those which traverse the inundated portions, there moves a mob of passers-by and of travellers.
Moreau was in Pains, but no longer appeared at the levees or parties of the First Consul, and the enmity of both generals against Bonaparte, openly avowed on the part of Pichegru; and still disguised by Moreau, was a secret to nobody.
The levees had more of courtly ceremonial than has been known since; but it was necessary to maintain the dignity of office by forms that should inspire respect.
Mrs. Lewis Morris was one of the belles distinguished at the levees of the first President.
The levees were piled high with cotton, molasses, and other commodities, and more activity was shown than they had witnessed since leaving the Ohio.
The small steamboat had a regular landing-place, but under orders from Dick and Harold Bird the captain took her up and down the levees and also to the other side of the stream.
West Lafayette, where Purdue University is located, was cut off from Lafayette by the breaking of one of the levees and the submerging of the other.
If levees are constructed, it is found that the bed of the stream rises also, so that the situation is not materially changed.
One had charge of rebuilding the streets and alleys; another the levees along the rivers; another the sewerage system, and still another the bridges.
Because of this fact the brunt of the high water was expected to strike that stretch, and any possible trouble to be looked for could be expected there, although the levees between Old River and Baton Rouge might also be in danger.
The breaking of thelevees along the Mississippi itself, an inevitable result of the great floods in tributary streams, had already begun.
At no place was the water behind the leveesdeeper than four feet.
The fact that the water had already destroyed several bridges and broken a levee gave cause for the alarm that other levees might break and further damage result.
Although the levees had been made higher in some places, it was not to be expected that they would be strong enough all along the river from St. Louis to the sea.
At that height, and even with the tide reduced by several immense crevasses, waters came over the New Orleans levees at a number of places, despite the fact that they were topped with several rows of sandbags.
The overflow, coming with astonishing suddenness, caught farmers throughout the state unprepared and the breaking of levees in many places forced persons living along the rivers to desert their homes.
A glance at Mrs. Washington's receptions has been given, but the leveesof the President remain to be described.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
