The weir is a single timber, below the surface, fixed obliquely across the stream on a shelving bankof masonry, and the farther end meets the wall of rock inside the cave.
At last we made a bold dash across the plain, and after a time came upon some sheep, standing in a thick row, with their heads thrust under a low bankwhich afforded a little shade; and at no great distance from them sat the shepherd.
The sun was just peeping, fiery red and threatening, above the bank of clouds to the east when Delaven was roused from sweet sleep by the apparition of Colonel McVeigh, booted, spurred and ready for the saddle.
Cornwall is situated on the western bank of the Hudson, just north of the Highlands.
Sat there a long time, and I on the opposite bank watching him.
For there was the Gardener coming clumping along by the bank of the lake, and growling as he went.
And, like a railway train, they had a collision, and all came tumbling one over the other, with great screaming and laughing, to the high bank on the other side.
Illustration: Up thebank she scrambled, her long hair dripping.
Just as he had caught the boy, and lifted the whip, the creature was seen hop-hopping from bank to bank.
Up the bank she scrambled, her long hair dripping as if she had been a water-dog instead of a pony.
And I want to add a word to the gift of your bank book.
My affairs consist of one bank account in the City Loan that would seem very small to you, Mr. Shayne.
Eighty dollars in the bank and twelve in his pockets.
His affiliation with the Down Town Savings Bank lasted into the spring and was terminated by one of the oddest incidents of his career.
He sold his pearls when the ship touched at large cities--a handful here and a dozen there, bargaining carefully and forwarding the profit to a bank in New York.
A handful of bystanders collected to watch Hugo cross from the bank to the steel patrol wagon.
They hastily quitted the bank of the little stream and went to the cabin to prepare for their immediate departure.
About all the houses are on the bank of the river, and were reached by a long, narrow foot-bridge, built over the lagoon.
Soon we came to a house, on the very bank of the river, with a kind of pier built out into the river, at which several sail and row boats were moored.
But the steamer went ahead until the bow struck the bank of the stream.
This woke him, and without waiting to bid adieu to the party, he scurried up the log, and disappeared in the trees on the bankof the stream.
On the bank was a shanty, and we concluded to stop for a while and have a run on shore, as the ground seemed to be high enough to give us standing room.
It was through the woods, on the bank of the river.
You see, the river runs past Lawrence, and already its bank is full with the flood, which is rising right along.
The truth of the matter was, that Billy just felt like taking the trip since it was during the Easter holidays, and he chanced to have money enough in his savings bank to cover the expenses.
If the current is too swift to let us get back again to-night, why what's to hinder our tying up to the bank and waiting?
There were only two banks in the city; the Bank of New-York, and the branch of the United States Bank.
Witbeck had given a bond for twenty thousand dollars, and his credit at the bank and elsewhere became affected by it.
Remember the note to be put in the bank on Wednesday.
Beth was standing on the bank one morning in a contemplative mood, admiring the water, and yearning for a boat to get to the islands, when round one of them, unexpectedly, a white wonder of a swan came gliding towards her in the sunshine.
Beth made no reply, but led the way up the hill on the other side, and, to the right, passed a row of cottages with long gardens at the back running down to the brow of the bank that overhung the Beck.
Then he would scramble up the opposite bank and repeat the performance, carrying him nearly back to the other side.
Naturalists have quarreled and disputed as scientists will, as to whether the bank beaver in America is a separate specie, or merely the house beaver, who has adopted the methods and manners of the bank beaver.
They searched the bankfor places where it was steep or shelving, overhanging the water.
Brownie turned out to be what is called a bank beaver.
These holes started at different points in the bank but all converged at the top of the knoll.
These he followed rapidly along the bank until he came to where it overhung the water and there he found his mate waiting for him with glad eyes.
These holes were started near the bank of the stream running back under ground for several feet, and then turning upward and coming out at the surface.
He would then hammer the frog on a rock, or spear him with his bill, until life had left him, when he would hide the catch upon the bank and return to his sport.
By the tenth of the month, one might search long to find even a small snow-bank along the north side of the woods, or behind some protecting boulder.
Finally they found a suitable place where the bank had shelved in, leaving a natural den, high and dry above the water.
The otter would go up the bank where it was steep and give three or four great jumps.
Most of the conical shaped houses, of which there are now about twenty, are on islands or on the bank near the dam.
It lies on the mainland, along the eastern bank of the Harlem river, E.
On the opposite bank are the scanty remains of an amphitheatre.
On either side of the gun and close up to the bank is a small pit for the gunners.
In this case there is no bank immediately in front of the gun.
A small branch of the Ceara river, called the Pajehu, traverses the city and divides it into two parts, that on its right bankbeing locally known as Outeiro.
The bank was often strengthened by a palisade of tree trunks or hurdle-work.
A bank of earth behind the wall lessened the vibration of the shot, but once a breach was made the earth came down, making a slope easy of ascent.
Two of these are in a cupola concealed from view, though not protected, by a bank of earth in front.
The increased velocity of artillery projectiles reduced in some ways their destructive effects against earth parapets, because the shell had an increasing tendency to deflect upwards on striking a bank of loose earth.
On a gravel bank or spit in the north-west of the lake stood a castle which was sometimes used as a residence by Margaret, queen of Malcolm Canmore.
In that case a bank is thrown up in front of the gun, about 1 ft.
They followed him, crossed the shaking bridge which made their horses nervous, and climbed the steep bank opposite.
Fifteen miles was a good day's march, and, where a river barred the road, many hours were wasted in safely transferring men and animals from bank to bank.
In a word, the left bank of the Jumna was ablaze, and sharp encounters occurred wherever the Emperor's men met those who fought for his would-be supplanter, Khusrow.
Their guide had led them to the bankof the Jumna, where a bridge of boats spanned the stream.
A winding road led towards the castle along the left bank of the river, and, in the far distance, they could distinguish a gay cavalcade of horsemen, whose burnished ornaments and arms shone in the sun with dazzling gleams.
To reach the Garden of Heart's Delight the cavalcade crossed a ford of the Jumna and followed a road along the left bank of the river.
Towards the close of a sultry day in July, in the year 1812, might have been seen a young man riding along the beautiful west bank of the Niagara River, about three miles above its mouth.
Before taking his leave, he asked Kate to walk with him on the river bank in the late summer sunset.
The first detachment of invaders were driven with some loss behind a steep bank close to the water's edge, but they were soon reinforced by fresh arrivals, and, being now in overwhelming strength, steadily fought their way up the bank.
As he gazed northward, he beheld, on the easternbank of the river, the snowy walls and grass-grown ramparts of Fort Niagara, above which floated proudly the stars and stripes.
They were promptly met by a body of British regulars and militia, and compelled to take refuge under cover of the steep bank which lined the beach to the north of the town.
Meanwhile, Colonel Thornton, on the left bank of the river, had achieved a brilliant success.
We all propose at Hdqrs to take our stores out and ride up to the bank of the river and watch the fight on the other side.
One day he invested his money, of which he had a certain quantity, in a scheme much favoured by the president of the bank in which he deposited, and this adventure proved a fortune.
The Germans, however, were still holding the west bank firmly, although the Belgian artillery had broken the bridge behind them at Steenstraate.
In the meantime the French had achieved some success, having retaken Lizerne and also the trenches round Het Sast, captured some 250 prisoners, and made progress all along the west bank of the canal.
On the 6th the British Army had set out from the line Rozcy-Lagny and had that evening reached the southward bank of the Grand Morin.
Grafenstafel Ridge, northwest of Zonnebeke, and the line then ran for some distance along the south bank of the little Haanebeek stream.
They found only his left hand plastered gruesomely against the grassy bank of the railway cut--not a hair nor button else.
The enemy occupied a strong position with infantry and guns on the northern bank of the Petit Morin River; they were dislodged with considerable loss.
On the French front the Germans had been cleared from the west bank of the canal, except at one point, Steenstraate, where they continued to hold the bridgehead.
The embers of the fire were near him, and on the bank lay the severed belts that had bound us.
A pleasant place enough it was, truly, for the rocks stood round in a little cliff, hemming in a lawn of short grass on every side but one, and the trees that hung on the bank of the stream closed that in.
And there by the side of the spring was a little turf-built hut, hardly to be known from the shelving bank against which it leant, and to that the earl led us.
But he had faced its fury as he saw me borne away, and had snatched me from it as it tossed me near the bank again.
Such orders must, however, be crossed by the issuing postmaster with the name of bank through which the order is to be paid.
The issue of money orders on credit, or for cheques not marked "good" by the bank drawn upon, is strictly prohibited.
Smithson placed in his hands two bank notes--one for a hundred and the other for fifty pounds.
In less than two hours, Mr. Green, Clarence Villiers shall be made acquainted with the fact that the thousand pounds have long ceased to be in the Bank of England,” exclaimed Heathcote.
Mr. Gamble rose, opened his desk, and taking out some Bank securities, directed the merchant’s attention to the sums specified in those documents.
The pond was deep: but Jack Rily managed to drag himself out;--and on gaining the bank he fainted.
Mr. Villiers will ask to accompany you to the Bank to make over the money in due form--for Mr. Villiers is an honourable man.
But, by the bye, what were you doing in thatbank at the door of which I met you?
At the bottom of the field there was a pond; and Jack Rily, on reaching the bank of the stagnant pool, felt that he could at that moment give all the money he possessed for a single glass of pure water.
Why--I have regularly paid the interest of the thousand pounds for you, as if it were still in the Bank of England; and your ward suspects not that his capital is gone.
But would it not be shorter to go to the Bank of England at once?
He rode it up to the sixth, got off and found that there was a bank of four elevators on this floor.
No one saw anything of the bridge; the train leaped, as it were, from bank to bank, and could not be stopped till it had passed the station for some miles.
As he had not appeared in time to win the wager, it was not necessary for him to go to the bank and draw his twenty thousand pounds.
It may not be out of place here to remark, which in some measure may account for the robbery, that the Bank of England trusts greatly in the honesty of the public.
A pile of bank-notes, amounting to the enormous sum of fifty-five thousand pounds, had been stolen from the counter at the Bank of England.
But it was not improbable that, when he reached Liverpool, Mr. Fogg would have to answer some awkward questions about the Henrietta, as well as about the bank business.
Two minutes later they reached the bank of the stream, and stopped about fifty paces from the funeral pyre, upon which the corpse was extended.
He must already have spent more than five thousand pounds; however, thebank can afford it.
On the 28th of last September, the sum of fifty-five thousand pounds was stolen from the Bank of England, by a person whose description is fortunately known.
This man was Fix, the English detective, who had been sent out in consequence of the bank robbery.
The probabilities of success and failure were warmly discussed in the newspapers, so it was not surprising that the members of the Reform Club should talk about it, particularly as one of the deputy-governors of the bank was present.
He was never seen on the Stock Exchange, nor at the Bank of England, nor at any of the great City houses.
If Fate should down you, just get up and take another cuff; You may bankon it that there is no philosophy like bluff, And grin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
