It could neither be surmounted nor doubled; and so they tunnelled what looks like a bank swallow's hole from a thousand feet below.
The descent through the steep tunnelled streets gave one the sense of being lowered into the shaft of a mine.
The tunnelled passages too were there, choked and fallen in; no flash of the lake now beyond their cool darkness!
They persevered in crossing for some time, but at last set to work and tunnelled underneath each rail.
As far as the eye can distinguish their tiny forms, troops upon troops of leaves are moving up towards the central point, and disappearing down the numerous tunnelled passages.
The river-banks, which yesterday had seemed chiselled out of solid marble, were to-day tunnelled and scarred with tiny rills and watercourses which groped their way feebly riverwards.
On the river's bank, where the portage commenced, was a cleared space, from which a path led round the cabin and tunnelled into the forest.
So I should imagine from what you told me about the part they played in the matter of the biplane and the tunnelled house," responded the young officer.
But suddenly, Under a tunnelled arch I see On flank and haunch the chestnut gleam Of horses in a lamplit steam; And the dead world moves for me once more With beauty for its living core.
The Turkish trenches were heavily bombarded, and mines which had rapidly been tunnelled under their trenches were exploded, with excellent results.
The Turks had largely brought this attack on themselves by having tunnelled forward to a crest that lay not very many yards distant from our position.
They had entered the temple, as Faris and I had done, by the tunnelled way, and had found everything just as we had left it.
The idea of again attempting to enter the maze of tunnelled passages we never for a moment entertained; and we at once set about to discover a means by which we might reach the opening above us.
Really, he had made astonishing speed for one who had tunnelled his way underground.
Couldn't you explain to Mr. Crow that you have tunnelled into the hills of corn in order to catch the grubs that would eat the corn if you didn't eat them first?
That day, in her narrow little corn-husk bed, she dreamed that she and Durkin had tunnelled under the Potomac River and had carried away the last ounce of gold from the United States Treasury.
He felt like a lean and empty wharf-rat that had tunnelled into a storehouse of unlimited provision.
The adjacent hill-side had been tunnelledto receive the operating machinery, and the supplies of shells, cartridges and fuses.
He therefore tunnelled a hole through the bottom of the block, through which he inserted his head and one arm.
Deep communication trenches led back to the canal banks, in the sides of which tier upon tier of comfortable living quarters for the troops had been tunnelled out.
The stretch of 6,000 yards of the canal which had been tunnelled was, however, both a hindrance and a benefit to the perfection of the scheme.
The hillside above the cascade has been extensively tunnelled for phosphate.
In several places it is tunnelled through the rock, where the buttresses of the cliffs could not be conveniently shattered with dynamite.
The height of the main cavern dwindled as it tunnelled northwards into the rock.
Crannies cleft into it; caves tunnelled its massive bosom; innumerable minarets of stone mingled with the wind-wracked trees.
All this comports little with the fact that the ancienttunnelled road along here was one of the marvels of engineering in the time of Augustus and that it led to Virgil's tomb.
This marvellous tunnelled road by the sea, with glimpses of daylight now and then, but mostly as dark as the cavern through which flowed the Styx, is the legitimate successor of an engineering work of the time of Augustus.
But when the sudden darkness of the southern evening had warned them that it was time to go, he began in the same strain again, after they had left the tunnelled streets of the rock-village.
After breakfast, he walked into the gray and ancient mountain-village of La Turbie, whose old houses and walls of tunnelled streets were built from the wreckage of Cæsar's Trophy.
The waves tunnelled their way easily enough until they ran up against those five mountains," mused the engineer, "and then they had to fall back.
The upper grove contains three hundred and sixty trees, and the road between the groves is tunnelled directly through one of them, which is twenty-seven feet in diameter.
The railway is tunnelled under the city for nearly a mile, and leads to the Union Station, which is one of the largest in the world.
Once inside we had the sense of being in a monster ant-hill as we followed our guide through a network of tunnelled corridors.
And yet a sight of the honeycombed and tunnelled miles of the burrows might have justified an opinion that all the foxes of Devonshire could have done no lasting hurt here.
The district is tunnelled and tracked by them; the characteristics of the heath are altered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunnelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
