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1. They were drifting away along that thin line of earthen dike work
2. Most of the conversation around the table was about the dike, which was being built between Tepeyac and Ixtapalapa across the Lake
3. One of the guests, Coatleztli, the son of the governor of Xochimilco, said that he had heard that there was a lot of resentment around the valley about the worker levies used to build the dike
4. At the dike near the demolished Fort Upolo stood one of those large Würzburg radar units, and although I had never been close to one of this type and it had been partially blown up, I still had a pretty good hunch where all the goodies were hidden
5. Shortly it came out to the dike, limping
6. Fernanda’s cloistered passion built in impenetrable dike against Úrsula’s torrential hundred years
7. I shifted the car into reverse and started to back up in the direction of the charging dick-hating, ball-breaking bull dike
8. Our times at the Klan Dike Café
9. Black Dike and the Chisos Mountains
10. men from Qattarah had said that Jason was at Black Dike, but there was no sign
11. he continued to rise higher, he noted the dike across the river and remembered
12. that he was at Black Dike
13. a parked car atop the dike
14. And while the other side of the dike had been smooth and grassy,
15. Wrong again, Credit conceded as they followed the path of the car down the dike
16. He proposed the construction of a huge dike across the northern end of James Bay, an arm of
17. bushes growing on the edge of a deep dike with a steep wall on the further side
18. On that side, running in more than half a circle from the hill and back to it, there was a deep dike with a thick hedge on the inner side
19. Men call it Deadmen's Dike, and they fear to tread there
20. It seemed now as sudden as the bursting of a flood that had long been held back by a dike
21. A dike and mighty wall and thorny fence encircle it
22. 'Maybe, we have a thousand fit to fight on foot,' said Gamling, an old man, the leader of those that watched the Dike
23. and filled the Dike with Orcs
24. Hundreds and hundreds more were pouring over the Dike and through
25. Between the Dike and the eaves of that nameless wood only two
26. until all above the Dike was empty of them, but below it they were packed
27. They rode over the Dike and down the Coomb, and then, turning swiftly eastwards, they took a path that skirted the foothills for a mile or so, until bending south it passed back
28. Halbarad lifted a great horn, and the blast of it echoed in Helm's Deep; and with that they leapt away, riding down the Coomb like thunder, while all the men that were left on Dike or Burg stared in amaze
29. Now silently the host of Rohan moved forward into the field of Gondor, pouring in slowly but steadily, like the rising tide through breaches in a dike that men have thought secure
30. It was that first, redoubtable moment of inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the water begins to filter through the fissures of dike
31. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the formidable place which had seen the 14th of July
32. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each other something moving through the smoke
33. When the dike swept out, Al turned and ran
34. Women dike will in a man
35. Emmons's Section of a Trap Dike, 332
1. Marius, thoughtfully, and with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My mother?—"
1. I also picked up dead rats which had taken in poison father had put inside a bamboo pole left along the dikes
2. Upon striding along the dikes leading home, I realized something
3. Well the dikes that held the water back then were
4. The old dikes
5. Erragal pulled out the mooring poles and the dikes
6. The 2nd throws a bomb which bounces off the Arch dikes car and explodes behind, injuring a dozen people in the car and General Potiorek’s adjutant is injured
7. No more low, wet grounds, no more dikes and sluices, no more of these grazing cattle,—though they seemed, in their dull manner, to wear a more respectful air now, and to face round, in order that they might stare as long as possible at the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; not for smith's work in general, and for you! I made my exultant way to the old Battery, and, lying down there to consider the question whether Miss Havisham intended me for Estella, fell asleep
8. Thin strands of river-mist were hanging above the dikes, and
9. dikes, and in the clefts there still stood the ruins of old works of stone
10. If the ocean made dikes, it is thus that it would build
11. And when the puddles formed, the men went out in the rain with shovels and built little dikes around the tents
12. And then the little dikes washed out and the water came inside, and the streams wet the beds and the blankets
13. Dikes, observed to have a crescent shape in Connecticut, J
14. —, —, —, —, dikes of trap of different ages, and limestones transformed by the same, C
15. —, —, —, —, observations on the White Mountains, with accounts of trap dikes, granite veins, minerals, &c
16. —, dikes of, Connecticut valley, vi, 47, 56
17. —, —, connection with trap dikes, E
18. —, effect of trap dikes on, xxix, 351
19. trap dikes on Red Hill, 111;
20. trap dikes near the Willey house, 118;