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Example sentences for "causeway"

Lexicographically close words:
causer; causers; causes; causest; causeth; causeways; causey; causing; causis; causit
  1. And it was this strip of causeway that enjoyed among the young parishioners of Balweary so infamous a reputation.

  2. The sound of his feet upon the causeway began the business of the day; for the village was still sound asleep.

  3. They struck the Route Ronde at that moment; and the sudden change to the rattling causeway combined, with the Doctor's irritation, to keep him silent.

  4. It stood on rising ground, and the only approach to it then was a causeway between the river and a morass.

  5. The walls were again set up, and flanked with towers, and a causeway consisting of a chain of wooden bridges was carried across the lagoon to Villeneuve.

  6. Again, between the city and the mainland ran a long low causeway all across the lagune like that on which the trains now glide into Venice.

  7. The arches are not thick; the causeway on the top is only just broad enough for three men to walk abreast.

  8. Then we strike down Cannaregio, and I muse upon processions of kings and generals and noble strangers, entering Venice by this water-path from Mestre, before the Austrians built their causeway for the trains.

  9. These were in towers standing beyond the ditch, and connected with the interior by a causeway across it.

  10. These fields were crossed by a causeway which led to the village, but as it ran at an angle across them, those advancing upon it were exposed to the fire of the English front.

  11. His native cavalry, with some infantry, marched against the grove; while the French troops, with about fifteen hundred infantry, moved along the causeway against the village.

  12. A panic ensued, and the Sepoys, terror stricken at this discharge, from a direction in which they considered themselves secure, leaped from the causeway into the dry ditch and sheltered themselves there.

  13. The Mahrattas were despatched after the enemy's cavalry, while he himself, with his infantry, advanced across the causeway and pressed upon the main body.

  14. From the land side, it was only approachable by a causeway across the swamp, and this was guarded by a strong ravelin, which is the military name for an outwork erected beyond the ditch of a fortress.

  15. It was very dark, but the dim light from the lantern sparkled upon a fine hoar-frost, which lay like silver on the causeway and glittered on every straw scattered about the yard.

  16. Old Nathan lighted Joan across the causeway and put the lantern into her hand when they reached the door of the outer cow-shed.

  17. Joan's heart was beating fast, and her small fingers clasped Rhoda's hand tightly as they stole along the causeway to the cow-shed just beyond the barn.

  18. On landing, we directed our steps to the town by a causeway which leads from the landing-place to the gates between the fields of paddy, which are, as usual, swamped with water.

  19. Slipping noiselessly from the room, she hastily threw a shawl around her, and hurried from the house by a small postern door, which, leading down to the high road, was considerably shorter than the causeway by which Travers must pass.

  20. The wretched quadruped, thus rudely saluted, gave a plunge and a kick, and then wheeled about with an alacrity long forgotten, and scampered down the causeway with the old gig at his heels, rattling as if it were coming in pieces.

  21. The stones for building the pyramid came from the other side of the Nile, and were ferried over in boats to the end of a causeway that was built to facilitate their transport to the place where they now lie.

  22. When the Sheik approaches this novel causeway his horse becomes restive, and refuses to go on, but he is pulled by the two men who hold the bridle and urged by those behind so that he does not hesitate a great while.

  23. It appears that some one told him of a big basthoon of a giant called Cucullin being down at the Causeway to look for him, and so he set out there to try if he could catch him.

  24. And, by-the-way, speaking of the Giant's Causeway brings me at once to the beginning of my story.

  25. Down the causeway over which the Tagalans fled in their mad desire to escape whole squads of Filipinos lay.

  26. The causeway up which the artillery had to advance was commanded by the insurgent infantry.

  27. On the 11th guns were moved to a position on a hillside near the residence of Mr. Higgins near Caloocan at a place where he commanded the causeway between Caloocan and Malabon.

  28. The by-road from the hill on which the Americans had rallied ran southerly till it met the causeway at right angles.

  29. They went down the hillock, entered the by-road, came to its angle with the main road and there turned into the causeway that led straight to the bridge.

  30. Near the base of the hill Concord River flows languidly in a winding channel and was approached by a causeway over the wet ground of its left bank.

  31. But the tide was coming in, and inch by inch was covering the causeway that led from shore to a high rock some hundred yards away.

  32. It is remarkable that at a distance of 600 feet from the south-west angle we have a causeway which crosses the valley, while from this point the western wall no longer follows the same direction, but inclines slightly to the westward.

  33. This causeway commences with an arch nearly as large as Robinson's, discovered by Dr.

  34. This arch is now found to be in a perfect condition and elevated 120 feet above the lowest part of the valley, while the causeway to west is a succession of vaults on vaults, and is about eighty feet above the rock.

  35. This causeway was 4 feet thick, and underneath was the natural clay.

  36. It was incredible that it should have come to this, that he should be flying in haste and anxiety and fear unspeakable to meet her at the elm tree by the Causeway on Wandsworth Plain.

  37. And so they had been drawn into an assignation at the old elm tree by the Causeway on Wandsworth Plain.

  38. At Sixty-seventh Street he wheeled into the sunken causeway that links the East and West sides.

  39. Crouched immovably in his seat, the driver scanned the causeway that leaped into view and vanished beneath the wheels, like a tremendous ribbon whirling upon spools.

  40. This is not a description of the Giant's Causeway (as some clever critic will remark), but of a Londoner there, who is by no means so interesting an object as the natural curiosity in question.

  41. That's the Causeway before you,' says the guide.

  42. Did you serve old Saturn with a glass when he lay along the Causeway here?

  43. The road to the Causeway is bleak, wild, and hilly.

  44. At low water it communicated with the town by a natural causeway of shingly rock called "The Bridge," commanded by its own guns.

  45. At the end of the causeway a rough platform of raised boards carries the traveller over an expanse of slimy mud, and from this he descends by steps to the gateway.

  46. The place is called in old charters “St Michel au péril de la Mer,” and the name must have seemed more fitting then in its loneliness than now, when connected by the solid causeway to the mainland.

  47. Accordingly, they speedily gained a sort of rugged causeway so called, being the remains of an old Roman road which traverses these wild regions in a due northerly direction.


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