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As Brydon's gang worked, they saw a man out upon a small raft of driftwood, which had been suddenly caught in the drive of logs, and was carried out towards the middle channel. [11]
I try not to take away all hope, unless the case is clearly desperate, and then to direct the activities into some other channel. [6]
It acts sometimes through the senses, sometimes through the imagination, sometimes through an unknown channel. [6]
The river is the Wiltshire Avon; not Shakespeare's Avon, but the southern stream of the same name, which empties into the British Channel. [6]
But where was the channel? [9]
On a blithe summer day we sighted, far off, the Island of Orleans and the tall masts of two patrol ships of war, which in due time we passed, saluting, and ran abreast of the island in the North Channel. [11]
In truth, he should have been born on the far side of the Channel. [9]
If I sometimes run riot and overflow your meadows, I leave fertility behind me when I withdraw to my natural channel. [6]
Whereupon a certain number of whistles were sounded, and the Barbara's bows headed for the other side of the channel. [9]
They had seen no battle-ship, and had sighted no danger, as they made their way westward through the Channel. [11]

More example sentences with the word channel in them

And yet, and yet!--If she had really had the power to bind calamity in the clouds, to turn the tide back into its channel, she would not have done so! [10]
His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
Still another explanation when husbands and sons and brothers come back across the Channel for a few days' leave after long months in the trenches, nothing is too good for them. [9]
All visiting pilots were useful, for they were always ready and willing, winter or summer, night or day, to go out in the yawl and help buoy the channel or assist the boat's pilots in any way they could. [5]
A triumphant gleam was in Xavier's eyes, for he had hit the channel squarely. [9]
At last Wyndham was able to drop into the narrow channel, now dry, through which, when the sluice was open and the sakkia turned, the water flowed to the house. [11]
Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it. [7]
But the tide, too, was running hard from the south, fighting the wind; and, at the moment when all seemed terribly uncertain, swept them past the opening and into the swift-running channel, where the indraught sucked them through to the more open water beyond. [11]
Then he called to them to return, but Jenny only bent a little lower and paddled on, guiding the canoe towards the safe channel through the first small rapids leading to the great Dog Nose Rapids. [11]
The captain of these tides, travelling up through the Atlantic at a thousand miles an hour, enters the English Channel, and drives on to the Thames. [11]
As they passed the western point of the island, and made their course easterly by a channel between rocky bulwarks opening Havre Gosselin, they suddenly saw a brig rounding the Eperquerie. [11]
They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. [5]
It seemed that the incident of this hour had so opened up every channel of his intelligence that all his life ran past him in fantastic panorama, as by that illumination which comes to the drowning man. [11]
They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went. [5]
Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and permanently confine (and thus deepen) the channel, preserve threatened shores, etc. [5]
The depth of the channel was twenty-two feet, the width one hundred and sixteen feet; multiply these and you have the square-feet across the water of the draw, viz. [7]
The passage across the Channel was a very smooth one, and neither of us suffered any inconvenience. [6]
In times past, the channel used to strike above Island 37, by Brandywine Bar, and down towards Island 39. [5]
I then crossed the Channel to Havre, from which I went to Paris. [6]
If he suspected the channel through which it had reached the little community, and, spreading from that centre, the country round, he did not see fit to make out of his suspicions a domestic casus belli. [6]
We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. [5]
How was it that the Afton with all her power flanked over from the channel to the short pier without moving one foot ahead? [7]
How far did that atmosphere extend, and through what channel did it act? [6]
They twine and strive in mystic conflict, and, in rage of equal power, neither vanquished nor conquering, circle, mad and desperate, round the Channel Isles. [11]
He would head straight for the beacon and pass between the Marmotier and the Maitre Ile, where is a narrow channel for a boat drawing only a few feet of water. [11]
I may not state the thousands carried on leave every day across the channel and back again--in spite of submarines. [9]
He began by speculating as to the possibility of the personal presence of an individual making itself perceived by some channel other than any of the five senses. [6]
At last we sighted buoys, bobbing here and there, and then we glided into a narrow channel among them, "raised the reef," and came upon shoaling blue water that soon further shoaled into pale green, with a surface scarcely rippled. [5]
Else, he must sail north between the Ecrehos and the Dirouilles, in the channel called Etoc, a tortuous and dangerous passage save in good weather, and then safe only to the mariner who knows the floor of that strait like his own hand. [11]
In peace and safety the three boarded the Honeyflower off the point called Verclut, and set sail for England, just seven hours after Michel de la Foret had gone his way upon the Channel, a prisoner. [11]
By hugging the quay in the channel to the left of the bar, they were sure of getting in, though the tide was low. [11]
As soon as Pierre began to say anything that did not fit in with that aim, the channel was removed and the water could flow to waste. [2]
They slipped the painter, a sailor took Andree's place at the helm, the oars were got out, and they made over to the channel, grazing the bar once or twice, by reason of the now heavy load. [11]
But secrets leak out, even the profoundest; and this was wafted across the English Channel to the ears of Mr. Rufus King, American Minister at London, who wrote of it to one Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. [9]
What would that other channel probably be? [7]
The stream that originates in Hickory Nut Gap is the westernmost branch of several forks of the Broad, which unite to the southeast in Rutherford County, flow to Columbia, and reach the Atlantic through the channel of the Santee. [4]
Captain Brent was one to make sure of his channel before going ahead. [9]
There was but one thing for us to do: to make the passage quickly through the safe channel of the rapids, and to be of what service we could on the other side of the Slide, if necessary. [11]
We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us. [5]
Imagine the benefits of so admirable a system in a piece of river twelve or thirteen hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! [5]
The ultimate effect of levees and revetments confining the floods and bringing all the stages of the river into register is to deepen the channel and let down the slope. [5]
I can see now the tall shining heights of Quebec, the pretty wooded Island of Orleans, the winding channel, so deep, so strong. [11]
A large vessel now came towards them from Doomiat and found the narrow channel barred by the other one. [10]
But such is not the usual experience: most people would make great sacrifices to avoid the hour and three quarters in one of those loathsome little Channel boats,--they always call them loathsome, though I did n't see but they are as good as any boats. [4]
But it did not depress him as it might otherwise have done, for his thoughts were running much in another channel with a foolish sort of elation. [11]
Other songs reached my ears each night, above the hissing and pounding of the Channel seas, but the unseen group returned always to this. [9]
We went ten miles further, landed, and George and I cleared out again--found the channel first trial, but got caught in the gorge and drifted helplessly down the river. [5]
I have received many questions within the last year or two, some of which I am willing to answer, but prefer to answer at my own time, in my own way, through my customary channel of communication with the public. [6]
If she ever lost her temper, it was when she let her mind run in this nihilistic channel, in bitterness against the whole social organization, and the total outcome of civilization so far as the mass of humanity is concerned. [4]
For all the long-defeated, disturbed, perverted instincts had found their natural channel from the centre of consciousness to the organ which throbs in response to every profound emotion. [6]
When a man like Ferens, on the one hand, and the mutineer whose fingers had been mutilated by Dyck in the Channel, on the other--when these agreed to bend themselves to the rule of a usurper, some idea of Calhoun's power may be got. [11]
Ahead of us lay the Snow Rapids and the swift channel at one side of the rapids which, hurrying through a rocky archway, was known as the Devil's Slide. [11]
For this reason: It was a rigid rule of the association that its members should never, under any circumstances whatever, give information about the channel to any 'outsider. [5]
You felt that it had no part in the career of the village on either side, but was like a rock in a channel, at which a swimmer caught or a vagrant fish loitered. [11]
Their raft was in the channel, coming straight between two piers. [11]
My father, now in Osiris, a worthier high-priest than I, was charged by the Prophets to entreat his father to give up the guilty project of connecting the north sea by a navigable channel with the unclean waters of the Red Sea. [10]
Besides, as arguments in favor of Homoeopathy are constantly addressed to the public in journals, pamphlets, and even lectures, by inexperienced dilettanti, the same channel must be open to all its opponents. [3]
To fly one hundred and fifty miles across the Channel and southern England, bomb London, and fly back again by midnight! [9]
When once more he set forth upon the Channel, he turned his back on Jersey and shaped his course towards France, having sent Elizabeth his last excuses for declining a service which would have given him honour, fame and regard. [11]
The river which has found a new channel widens and deepens--it; it lets the old water-course fill up, and never returns to its forsaken bed. [6]
Having come but half-way of the Channel, the lugger was stopped by an English frigate. [11]
Truth is, he had chosen this night because they would be safest from pursuit, because no sensible seafaring man, were he King's officer or another, would venture forth upon the impish Channel, save to court disaster. [11]
Charlotte's affection, however, had another channel, and there it turned in thought, in care, and in tenderness. [14]
Dusk shaded the grove where she walked; the birds ceased singing; the wind sighed through the leaves of the cottonwoods, and the running water murmured down its stone-bedded channel. [13]
The boat leaving Grouville Bay was a yacht carrying twelve swivel-guns, bringing Admiralty despatches to the Channel Islands. [11]
It is a great historical creek with four feet in the channel and some scows floating around. [5]
Up-stream boats didn't generly come close to us; they go out and follow the bars and hunt for easy water under the reefs; but nights like this they bull right up the channel against the whole river. [5]
There was a gale blowing, and both vessels clapped on every stitch of canvas and swept up through the channel and past the fortresses at a magnificent gait. [5]
Second Mate and four deck hands took the sounding boat and shoved out in the ice to hunt the channel. [5]
This time we found the channel in less than half an hour, and landed on an island till the Pennsylvania came along and took us off. [5]
The spring gushed forth in a swirling torrent, and leaped down joyously to make its swift way along a willow-skirted channel. [13]
The style was fluent, impetuous, abundant, impatient, as it were, at times, and leaping the sober boundaries prescribed to it, like the torrent which rushes through the same channel when the rains have filled it. [6]
Farther on it flowed through a channel choked with all kinds of plants. [10]
He had a feeling that it was only out of condescension or a kind of civility that this device of placing a channel was employed. [2]
Akin to the false notion that the newspaper is a sort of open channel that the public may use as it chooses, is the conception of it as a charitable institution. [4]
After a short excursion to Strasbourg, down the Rhine, and through Holland, a small steamer took us from Rotterdam across the Channel, and we found ourselves in the British capital. [6]
Suppose he, too, dwells on the Channel Islands, where he has all climates, and is superior to all. [4]
And before we crossed the Channel, Marian saw another autograph copy of the famous novel. [9]
The tide runs counter, and the wind is high; I see no channel through the rocks ahead. [11]
Had monsieur le comte then spent all these years in the Channel Isles--a prisoner perhaps? [11]
The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the Channel. [2]
There was one channel through the rapids by which it was perfectly safe to pass, but that sweep of water through the Devil's Slide was sometimes a trap of death to even the most expert river-men. [11]
This light had caused the French and English frigates some uneasiness, and they had patrolled the Channel from Cap de la Hague to the Bay of St. Brieuc with a vigilance worthy of a larger cause. [11]
That the actual capacity of a channel through alluvium depends upon its service during floods has been often shown, but this capacity does not include anomalous, but recurrent, floods. [5]
That he overcame by appointing senior midshipmen before the Ariadne was out of the Channel. [11]
There is a brutal streak in the Anglo-Saxon, I fear,--a downright animal coarseness, that does not exhibit itself the other side of the Channel. [4]
A province of British people, speaking still the Norman-French that the Conqueror spoke; such is the island of Jersey, which, with Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, and Jethou, form what we call the Channel Isles, and the French call the Iles de la Manche. [11]
It was a brave sight, for the logs were in a narrower channel and more riotous. [11]
A French privateer boards them in the midst of the English channel. [11]
The facts had been slowly, quietly gathered, one by one, like pebbles from the empty channel of a brook. [6]
As they were beating in they saw a large yacht running straight across a corner of the bar for the channel. [11]
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. [7]
He cannot be approached save through Mr. Lionel Carvel himself, and that channel, for Mr. Carvel's sake, must be closed. [9]
It flashed through Angele's mind even as she answered the gurgling salutations of the triumvirate that they had been got together for no gentle summer sailing in the Channel. [11]
Days passed--and nights; and then the beautiful Bermudas rose out of the sea, we entered the tortuous channel, steamed hither and thither among the bright summer islands, and rested at last under the flag of England and were welcome. [5]
Then he turned and looked out upon the Channel. [11]
Boats which screamed, and boats which had a dragon's roar were backing out of the close ranks where they had stood wheel-house to wheel-house, and were dodging and bumping in the channel. [9]
This is not an assertion, but a fact, admitting of demonstration, as may be seen by a perusal of the foregoing table,"--referring to a table of seventy-seven cases, in many of which the channel of propagation was evident. [3]

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