After the cessation in 1882 of works in connexion with the Channel tunnel, to connect England and France, coal-boring was attempted in the disused shaft, west of the Shakespeare Cliff railway tunnel near Dover.
The Indians took their customary omnibus drive-- not on this morning, as the old chief anticipated, to the menagerie, but to the Thames Tunneland London Bridge.
Here turn left, turning right almost immediately, following the Sumner Tunnel sign on to North Street.
Continue on North Street to the AMOCO Service Station, turning left and into the Tunnel which you go through to East Boston.
Directly across the street and to the left we pass by the Sumner Tunnelwhich was opened to the public in 1934.
Mr. Ball the elder was invited to send in a tender for the construction of the tunnel at Gad's Hill previously mentioned, but it was not accepted, as appears from a letter addressed to him by Mr. Alfred L.
Both ends of the tunnelare covered with ivy, which has the effect of partially concealing the openings.
The tunnel itself is cut through the sands, and, being only a little longer than the width of the road, it is not at all dark, but very pleasant and cool on a hot day.
DEAR SIR, "I am very sorry that absence from home has prevented my replying to your note as to the tender for the Gad's Hill tunnel before.
The tunnel ran uphill, and I drove the pony up it as one drives a hoop, by incessant beating; had I relaxed my efforts he would probably, like a hoop, have lain down.
Presently, and still uphill, we turned a corner, thetunnel ceased, and we were face to face with a large pink house.
There was one five-minute interval of excitement when, far down the tunnel through the forest, we saw a light gleaming.
At the mouth of a tunnel a lion stood motionless, menacing, regarding them.
An entrance drive to the plantation of Les Iles, unknown to Nick and me, led off from the main road like a green tunnel arched out of the forest.
To reach Honora's cottage, you turned away from the pomp and glitter and noise of Bellevue Avenue into the inviting tunnel of a leafy lane that presently stopped of itself.
American Division reached the Bellicourt tunnel to time, the 27th on its left was held up.
As soon as a fly has been destroyed--its blood sucked--it is seized by its captor and dragged to the tunnel to be thrown out at the trapdoor.
It consists of a circular tunnel with a double outlet.
The tunnel leading from the well toward the south is 19 inches high, 3 feet 9 inches wide.
Ashes continued in the north tunnel for 26 feet from the entrance, beyond which no further progress was possible.
The statement may be true; but instead of a cave there is only a tunnel a few rods in length.
The cave itself, however, more resembles an artificial tunnel than a natural result of erosion.
While school was in session the young engineer was not idle, for he had with him his instruments, and many a chart he made as he studied the way to bridge chasms or to tunnel mountains.
I'm just sure you are trying to figure out how to tunnel through Old Piney and make your walk home with me a quarter of a mile shorter.
From this turret he was to climb down by the ivy and the heaps of stone into the courtyard; and, softly opening the unlocked gate, to make his way along the passage to a subterranean tunnel communicating with it.
Centuries ago this tunnel had formed a secret corridor between the fortress and a tower on the neighbouring hill; now it was quite disused and blocked in many places by the falling in of the rocks.
Leaving their ponies in charge of one of the cow-punchers who had accompanied them that far, the party had proceeded through the tunnel on foot.
Still cheering, they emerged into a place where the passage broadened, and in another moment would have been out of the farther end of the tunnel but for an unexpected happening that occurred at that moment.
If ever a boy felt foolish and angry, it was Rob, as his silent captors slid noiselessly as cats into the black mouth of the tunnel of the cave-dwellers.
As soon as it was dark we agreed to start; and watch the entrance, as our only chance of slipping through the tunnel unobserved would be during the night-time.
These birds live in Australia, and their bowers are made of bits of strong grass or thin stick woven over to make a sort of tunnel through which the bird can run.
He digs into a cliff or sandbank a long tunnel quite as long as your arm, and just big enough for him to pop in and out with comfort.
Just imagine how long it must have taken to cut out and carry away all the masses of earth that had to be removed to make a tunnel of such a length--a tunnel which should run right round underneath London.
Until they grow older they never go down that long mysterious tunnel where mother and father run in and out, but only see in the distance the white gleam of a round hole.
To reach these, we go through a tunnel and come up on the other side.
But that has never happened, for the men who built the tunnel made it very strong, and lined it with bricks.
A moment more and Bob Jarvis was wriggling through the little tunnel on his stomach.
To do so he had swerved from the tunnel through which he was passing, stepping into an open pocket in the rocks, believing that he was following the wall, on which he had kept one hand constantly.
Of course, if we have a pond or a ditch near us we can easily make a tunnel to the edge of it, but it is not every mole who is so fortunate as to live by the waterside.
Why, if I had only one tunnel into my room I should be almost ashamed to go through it.
Just when she thought she must succumb and was on the verge of opening the door, the tunnel ended, the phantasm vanished, and her longing for self-destruction abruptly ceased.
It need not necessarily have been attached to the compartment in which she happened to see it, but may have haunted the tunnel itself, manifesting itself in various ways.
To this mass a train was to be laid through the cross tunnel to a convenient distance.
In the cross tunnel at the back of the cave bags of gunpowder and dynamite were to be hidden.
At the entrance to this tunnel a short cross-tunnel had been cut, with an exit on the side of the hill and at right angles to the mouth.
On one occasion he is credited with engineering a tunnel through a mighty mountain, that his royal master might fall unawares upon a powerful enemy.
The tunnel was constructed, and the attack made with complete success.
The dark tunnel is met with in many British stories of daring heroes who set out to explore it, but never return.
Quickening his steps, he then escaped from the dreadful tunnel and once more rejoiced in the rays of the sun.
The walls of Jerusalem were repaired by Jotham, father of Ahaz, and a tunnelconstructed to supply it with water.
The tunnel may run from a castle to the seashore, from a cave on one side of a hill to a cave on the other, or from a seashore cave to a distant island.
At the same time, the value of the co-operation of these gentlemen is not denied, only I desire to point out that the comparison with the tunnel is not quite accurate.
But he saw that the enemy was maneuvering with the object of first circumventing him and then making for the tunnel and chasing the fugitives.
Do you imagine that the tunnel serves no further purpose?
It's curious, you know, that the tunnel isn't better watched and that we have been able to come so far without accident.
Paul remembered the ruins of the old lighthouse on the bank of the Yser and the tunnel from Ornequin to Ebrecourt.
As he anticipated, the two sets of rails joined a little way back and they saw the yawning entrance to a tunnel about nine feet wide and the same height.
Then the road sloped upwards; and, at the end of the darktunnel through which he was walking, Paul perceived the glare of light that points to an open space.
The idea of digging for twenty years at a tunnel intended for the possible bombardment of a tiny fortress would never have occurred to a Frenchman.
Once the adventure was completed in accordance with Paul's designs, the tunnel would bring back all the three of them to the Chateau d'Ornequin.
Look here, surely you remember the Ebrecourt tunnel and the system of electric wires?
His plan, which was to use the tunnel before the alarm was raised, his plan was shattered.
Paul went on: "It was in 1894 that you suggested to the Emperor the piercing of a tunnel from Ebrecourt to Corvigny.
Four men to dig a six-mile tunnel through the rock in an hour!
By placing the entrance to their tunnel there, they were able to continue their works in time of peace without attracting attention.
His enthusiasm increased still further when he observed that the roof of the tunnel was supplied with ventilating-shafts.
Jerry threw in the gear and the next instant the car glided forward and shot along the tunnel of trees, leaving the hut where Tommy Bell had been a prisoner.
They found it just as Bob had said, almost exactly like an immensetunnel in the forest.
He led them several hundred feet ahead of the automobile, and away from the glare of the lamps, the tunnel curving somewhat.
There were just two ways open to him: through the underground tunnel or by way of the woods.
Of course, if the man did, it would be much safer for them simply to get some officers of the law up there and try and trace the tunnel and find out where the man lived.
The young people at the lodge were eager to explore the counterfeiters' tunnel that night, but Barry persuaded them to wait until the following day, and they finally consented.
The sides of the tunnel had been carefully cut, and it seemed to him that it had been built for some definite purpose.
If I went through the tunnel and met the spook face to face, I'd never be able to get away, and I've simply got to get back and warn the people at the lodge!
He had planned to return to the tool house by way of the tunnel and tell his friends what he had discovered, but now it was highly dangerous to go back that way.
The man had gone up the tunnel to the lodge, and when we got over that way, we saw him run into the tool house!
If I had my hunting rifle I'd go back along the tunnel and call on him to surrender, but I haven't a thing, and I imagine that the man is armed or at least able to put up a good fight.
I found a secrettunnel from that quarry over there to the tool house out back.
