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Sentences starting with canal
- Canal Street was finer, and more attractive and stirring than formerly, with its drifting crowds of people, its several processions of hurrying street-cars, and--toward evening--its broad second-story verandas crowded with gentlemen and ladies clothed according to the latest mode. [5]
Sentences ending with canal
- Lake Bourget connects with the Rhone by a small canal. [5]
- Has the English troop been used to secure the fortifications on the old canal? [10]
- As they rode to the Amenhotep Dicky did not speak, but once he turned round to look after the outcast, who was shambling along the bank of the canal. [11]
- The sound of the looms was like heavy rain hissing on the waters of the canal. [9]
- Take, for instance, the Illinois and Michigan Canal. [7]
- They tied a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka Canal. [2]
- His really startling points, however, were his remarks upon the colours of the mountains of Egypt and the sunset tints to be seen on the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. [11]
- At the end of the street, we hesitated a moment whether to cross the bridge or turn up by the broad canal. [4]
- This scrip is not going to circulate over an extensive range of country, but will be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the canal. [7]
- Often it took more than half a day of hard labor with shovel and hoe to dig the canal. [4]
Short sentences using canal
- She reached the canal. [9]
More example sentences with the word canal in them
- The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
- And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. [5]
- A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
- The canal for which he was taxed gave his feddan of land no water, for the Pasha, the friend of the Government, took all the water for his own land. [11]
- If the truth were known, it would doubtless appear that rich plebeians grew too prominent in their affectation of patrician show on the Grand Canal, and required a wholesome snubbing. [5]
- The evening before we came to the Suez Canal I was walking with Miss Treherne and her father. [11]
- As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis. [10]
- The March night was drawing toward its end, pallid mists floated over the canal, the work of Hebrew bondmen which, as far as the eye could reach, intersected the plain, watering the fields and pastures along its course. [10]
- Her family, indeed, was an old one on the island, and was prominent long before the building of the stone bridge on Canal Street over the outlet of Collect Pond. [4]
- After a long voyage through the canal which had been dug a short time before, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, the three men reached Clysma. [10]
- The French, in undertaking to reconstruct the Suez canal, have had much to encounter from the unfriendly commercial policy of the English and their influence over the internal affairs of Egypt, but the unwearied energy and great talent of Monsr. [10]
- The sight of two policemen hurrying toward them from the direction of the canal aroused her. [9]
- He could see two little boats, but they lay in a narrow walled canal and this was closed by an iron railing. [10]
- When she had turned down West Street and almost gained the canal, it was with a shock of surprise that she found herself confronted by a man in a long cape who held a rifle and barred her path. [9]
- They blocked the traffic, halted the clanging trolleys, surged into the mouth of West Street, booing and cursing at the soldiers whose threatening line of bayonets stretched across that thoroughfare half-way down toward the canal, guarding the detested Chippering Mill. [9]
- From the palace to the gloomy prison is but a step--one might almost jump across the narrow canal that intervenes. [5]
- He was obliged to release the luckless Gaul from the broken timbers of the bridge, and, when Hermon had dragged him out on the opposite bank of the canal, he made no answer to any question. [10]
- One might have thought in all these years he had sat within the gates staring at the brick row of the company's boarding houses on the opposite bank of the canal that reflection might have brought a certain degree of enlightenment. [9]
- In view of this firm and hopeful tone of his being he found it all the more surprising, as he reached the canal, to be seized by a trepidation strong enough to bring perspiration to his forehead. [9]
- The shortness of the time at their disposal was a still greater source of anxiety, and to this was added the information that one hundred and twenty thousand workmen had perished during the restoration of the canal which Pharaoh Necho nearly completed. [10]
- It followed nearly the same direction as the Fresh-water canal of Lesseps, and fertilized the land of Goshen. [10]
- He had proposed the route along the canal because nobody would be likely to recognize them, and her pride resented this. [9]
- As they reached the middle of the steep bridge across the canal he involuntarily stood still, riveted by the view of the southwest. [10]
- The army destroyed; the desertion of Herod and Pinarius; Antony's generous, trusting heart torn by base treachery, his soul darkened; the reconstruction of the canal, the last hope--Gorgias brought the news--the same as destroyed. [10]
- They started along the canal in the direction of the Stanley Street bridge. [9]
- They presently crossed the Aspendia Canal, where the fog hung over the water like white smoke, hiding the figure of the tutelary goddess of the town on the parapet of the bridge from those who crossed by the roadway. [10]
- The arm of the Agathodaemon Canal which entered here had been bridged long ago. [10]
- My opinion is that the water will be feet deep in Canal street before the first of next June. [5]
- If the labor that has been expended here, only to erect platforms for the soil to rest on, had been given to our country, it would have built half a dozen Pacific railways, and cut a canal through the Isthmus. [4]
- Do you remember that day last summer I was tinkering with the car by the canal and you came along? [9]
- Gaining the farther side of the canal, she perceived him flattened against the wall of the gatehouse shaking his fist in the faces of the intruders, who rushed past him unheeding. [9]
- On the other side of the canal the Asiatics were moving to and fro. [10]
- The number of ships passing through the canal is constantly increasing. [10]
- The day before she had welcomed her returning son before the entry of the fleet into the canal, and to-day had remained from the beginning to the end of his reception by the King, without being unduly wearied. [10]
- The canal will save the fleet. [10]
- A man came rushing from a house, Saying, "Snub up your boat I pray, [The customary canal technicality for "tie up. [5]
- All the members round about the canal were Anti-Nebraska, but were nevertheless nearly all Democrats and old personal friends of his. [7]
- The night after Roscoe was taken ill we were passing through the canal, the search-light of the 'Fulvia' sweeping the path ahead of it and glorifying everything it touched. [11]
- How make a road, a canal, or clear a greatly obstructed river? [7]
- We now 45 returned, made a wide circuit across the Segwaertway, and through this canal here, where there was hard fighting, to North-Aa. [10]
- Without encountering any resistance, they broke through the necropolis into Alexandria, crossed the Draco canal, and marched past the unfinished Temple of Serapis through the Rhakotis. [10]
- A galvanic thrill ran through the crowd, an impulse that turned their faces and started their steps down East Street toward the canal, and Janet was irresistibly carried along. [9]
- Pharaoh Necho also projected a Suez canal, but does not appear to have carried it out, as the oracle declared that the utility of the undertaking would be greatest to foreigners. [10]
- Hermon went, with Philippus and Thyone, on board the ship which was to convey them through the new canal to Pelusium, where the old commandant had to plan all sorts of measures. [10]
- They presently came out of an obscure alley by the canal connecting Kibotus with Lake Mareotis where the Nile-boats lay at anchor. [10]
- The canal abandoned, one red night fleet and transports swept around the bend and passed the city's heights, on a red river. [9]
- While examining the one crossing the canal, it had fallen in upon him. [10]
- We went there on the Erie Canal, the exciting and fashionable mode of travel in those days. [4]
- As they walked on between the Serapeum on one hand, towering high above all else, and the Stadium on the other, the throng was dense; on the bridge over the canal it was difficult to make any progress. [10]
- In the time of the Ptolemies, at all events, the canal was already completed. [10]
- There was an occasional alligator swimming comfortably along in the canal, and an occasional picturesque colored person on the bank, flinging his statue-rigid reflection upon the still water and watching for a bite. [5]
- Zeno remarked that more papers conferring authority were required for the work on the canal, and the Exegetus earnestly besought definite instruction. [10]
- One had this modified noonday not only in Canal and some neighboring chief streets, but all along a stretch of five miles of river frontage. [5]
- Five o'clock for mine,"--and walked away, up the canal, swinging her hips defiantly. [9]
- She had merely met him by the canal, and he had talked to her. [9]
- It was a mere canal of liquid mud; but man had made it, and it would take me home. [4]
- From Edwards to Mayhew, from Mayhew to Channing, from Channing to Emerson, the passage is like that which leads from the highest lock of a canal to the ocean level. [6]
- He has to learn his work by practice; a beaver, on the other hand, can make its dam or canal, and a bird its nest, as well, or nearly as well, and a spider its wonderful web, quite as well (6. [1]
- Not that there is any 'architecture' in Canal Street: to speak in broad, general terms, there is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries. [5]
- Cast your sorrows into the Grand Canal, and until Ash-Wednesday, imagine that heaven has fallen upon earth! [10]
- I was writing in our front room this afternoon and trying hard to keep my attention on my work and refrain from looking out upon the canal. [5]
- The first supposition, however, seemed to be the correct one, for as Hermon approached the canal he heard moans of pain. [10]
- There is Mr. Hollowell, used to drive a peddler's cart, or something of that sort, up in Maine, talking with Mr. Stott, whose father came in on the towpath of the Erie Canal. [4]
- He now checked his steps, and in a stooping posture, often on his knees, followed the windings of a narrow canal that emptied into the Rhine. [10]
- Adam had swung his hammer on the Mere and by the Zucker Canal among the citizens, who fought desperately for the property and lives of their families;--but all was vain. [10]
- Can't you let him fall in the canal occasionally? [5]
- The sentry recognized her as she came along the canal. [9]
- A sign, and he will notice us and allow you to go on his ship, or, at any rate, send us a boat in which we can enter the canal. [10]
- In this picture he had been aided by the "joyous art," in whose honor Paolo Veronese, had at one of Titian's banquets, started up, drained a glass of wine to the dregs, and hurled it through the window into the canal. [10]
- The canal men have got their measure through the Legislature pretty much or quite in the shape they desired. [7]
- The pavement in front of the company boarding-houses by the canal was plastered with sodden leaves whipped from the maples by the driving rain in the night. [9]
- Across the river from the city, on the pasty mud behind the levee's bank were dumped Sherman's regiments, condemned to week of ditch-digging, that the gunboats might arrive at the bend of the Mississippi below by a canal, out of reach of the batteries. [9]
- That canal was first opened for business last April. [7]
- In a very few days we were all gratified to learn, among other things, that sugar had been carried from New Orleans through this canal to Buffalo in New York. [7]
- She heard her father call after her, faintly--the thought crossed her mind that his appeals were always faint,--and then she was being carried along the canal, eastward, the pressure relaxing somewhat when the draining of the side streets began. [9]
- It was transfigured--a fairy palace, just as the mud barges in the Suez Canal had been transformed by the search-light of the 'Fulvia'. [11]
- Two blocks from Faber Street was the North Canal, with a granite-paved roadway between it and the monotonous row of company boarding houses. [9]
- Nor are the ethics of the manner of our acquisition of a part of Panama and the Canal wholly defensible from the point of view of international democracy. [9]
- After all, we drove out five miles to Broek, the clean village; across the Y, up the canal, over flatness flattened. [4]
- Looking into the distance, she saw two or three hundred men at work on a canal, draining the property of Selamlik Pasha, whose tyrannies, robberies, and intrigues were familiar to all Egypt, whose palaces were almost as many as those of the notorious Mouffetish. [11]
- Karnis drew a deeper breath, for here the air was clear and balmy; a light northerly breeze brought the refreshing fragrance of the sea, and the slender palm-trees that bordered the canal threw long shadows mingling with the massive shade of the sycamores. [10]
- Suddenly, from the cupolas above the battlement of the mill, the bells shattered the early morning air, the remnant of the workers hastened across the canal and through the guarded gates, which were instantly closed. [9]
- I saw the crowds blocking the streets around the canal. [9]
- She saw him cross the bridge like a ghost through the white mist rising from the canal. [9]
- The maritime canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea has also been completed since 1869. [10]
- The military and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal and improving the Illinois River is presented in the report of Colonel Webster to the Secretary of War, and now transmitted to Congress. [7]
- The boat came close to the bank again, and before she had had any more time for consideration, she and her grandfather were on board, and gliding smoothly down the canal. [12]
- Directly behind the city-hall lies the Zucker Canal. [10]
- Even in this case the os coccyx may be said to possess a vestige of so important a structure as the spinal cord, though no longer enclosed within a bony canal. [1]
- The Baron de Carondelet, indefatigable man, aimed at digging a canal to relieve the city of its filth, but this would be the year when it was most needed, and it was not dug. [9]
- So the spinal canal, the existence of which, at least in the adult, has been so often disputed, appears as a coarse and unequivocal anatomical fact in many of the preparations referred to. [3]
- At the Roomburg Canal, perhaps the site of the old Praetorium, and at Katwyk. [10]
- On the Erie Canal, it was, All on a summer's day, I sailed forth with my parents Far away to Albany. [5]
- But when the canal was finished and the water began to pour into the hole, the excitement began. [4]
- They were down Canal Street and over the bridge before we knew it. [9]
- This is the canal over the Rapids. [5]
- We want a canal from the James River to the Mississippi. [5]
- In the alimentary canal are certain pointed eminences called villi, and certain ridges called valvuloe conniventes. [6]
- Janet was seized by a sudden and rather absurd desire to retreat, but Canal Street being empty, such an action would appear eccentric, and she came slowly forward, pretending not to see her employer, ridiculing to herself the idea that he had noticed her. [9]
- Now a strongly built wall of masonry lines the banks of this ditch, which has been transformed into a deep canal bordered by the handsome houses of the Konigin Augustastrasse, and along which pass countless heavily laden barges called by the Berliners "Zillen. [10]
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