As the glacier front retires from the moraine which it has built up, the water which emerges from beneath the ice is impounded behind the new damso as to form a lake of crescentic outline (Fig.
Such a tendency was well illustrated by the behavior of the water at the opening of the Neu Haufen dam below the city of Vienna (Fig.
If reduced in power for a short interval, as a result of the obstructions still remaining in the lately broken dam below the Whirlpool, the remarkable narrowing of the gorge at this point would be sufficiently accounted for.
Within the limits of the dam all tributary streams were blocked, so that secondary lakes were formed in a double fringe about the main river (Fig.
Convict Lake, a lake behind a moraine dam within a glaciated valley of the Sierra Nevadas, California (after a photograph by Fairbanks).
When the avalanched material is so disposed as to dam the valley, much larger lakes of this type come into existence.
A second dam is thus formed which is separated from the initial one by open water, and in this way the driftwood dam acquires enormous proportions as it gradually moves up the river.
To the ice dam which lay across the Red River valley we owe the fertility of that vast plain of lake deposits where is to-day the most intensive wheat farming of the northwest (Fig.
View of Snag Lake, a coulée lake with lavadam shown in middle distance (after Fairbanks).
When this weakened dam at last gave way, it must have produced a debacle grand in the extreme.
The dam was a mere pile of débris through which trickled a stream bearing no resemblance to the sparkling waterfall of yesterday.
Why, if the dam were put back, you'd have as pretty a lake for a canoe as there is in the State!
Oh, but that is only because the old dam is down," he exclaimed eagerly.
Her father built this house of yours and put in the dam that covered the ruins with water.
The Michells then living had your house built over by the orchard, then, an' had a dam built across so as to cover up the old site with water.
When you put up your cement daminstead of the old log affair that held back only a part of the stream, you made a greater depth and bulk of water in the swamp basin than it has contained these many years, if ever.
This dam controls the water of the Nile, and makes possible the irrigation of vast areas of land that had hitherto been dead and unproductive.
The benefits of this great dam are felt from its location at the first cataract all through the farms and fields that skirt the Nile clear to the delta, six hundred miles below.
This is the dam at Assouan, one of the greatest feats of engineering in the world.
At the beginning of the cataract, three and a half miles above the town, is the dam of Assouan.
The dam has transformed the river above it into a huge lake.
Since the building of the great dam at Assouan the temples of Philæ are half under water.
Following the report of this information, General Smith proposed that the plan for battle should be given up, in view of the very strong ground at Beaver Dam Creek.
The Union commander left his Fifth Corps engaged at Beaver Dam Creek while Jackson's column marched by it as far as Hundley's Corner and went into camp.
With exception of the regular battalion, it was, July 1, and while at Beaver Dam Creek, Md.
He approached by the dam at Sanders's Pond, passed the dam, and occupied one of the redoubts, leaving three companies to guard a road crossing on the right of his line of march.
His position thus masked, rested his right upon Beaver Dam Creek, a stream that flows from the height between the Chickahominy and Pamunkey Rivers south to its confluence with the former a few hundred yards below Mechanicsville Bridge.
A prominent point was Beaver Dam Creek, which was so noted by the officers.
The topographical features of the ground about Beaver Dam Creek have been given in a former chapter.
The redoubts on the left of Fort Magruder commanded the dam in Queen's Creek at Sanders's Pond, but the dam in College Creek was beyond protection from the redoubts.
From Beaver Dam the line was extended down the river to New Bridge, where it crossed and reached its left out to White Oak Swamp, and there found as defensible guard as the right at Beaver Dam Creek.
The outpost was driven in, and Hill prepared and attacked against the front at Beaver Dam Creek.
Here the boys were bound to make a dam big enough to drown a fellow in, neck and heels.
No one asked him to help dam up the brook, so he stood in the snow, buried to the ears in his overcoat and comforter, and thinking that the watery sunshine was a very poor imitation of the tropical warmth in which he had formerly luxuriated.
But between the solid wall of the dam and the bank there was a tangled framework through which the water rushed with some violence.
He approached within a leap or two of the dam without being seen and crouched close to the ground, ready to spring forth when the opportunity came.
They heard the roar of the stream tearing through the embrasure and Kazan saw the otter crawl up to the top of the dam and shake himself like a huge water-rat.
At the end of the fourth year this first generation of children, had they followed the usual law of nature, would have mated and left the colony to build a dam and lodges of their own.
A dam could be constructed easily across the narrow stream, and the water could be made to flood a big supply of poplar, birch, willow and alder.
After a wait of several minutes Kazan was almost on the point of staking everything on a wild rush upon his enemies when a movement on the dam attracted his attention.
When at last Kazan gave up the attack the old engineer slipped over the edge of the damand disappeared under the water.
The dam was two hundred yards in width and flooded a mile of swamp and timber above it.
While a part of the beaver colony was taking advantage of the water, others were felling trees end to end with the birch, laying the working frame of a dam a hundred feet in width.
An equal distance to the right of him four or five of the baby beavers were at play building a miniature dam of mud and tiny twigs.
Six years before Broken Tooth had led a few beavers of his own age down the stream, and they had built their first small dam and their first lodge.
The dam had been lengthened until it was fully two hundred yards in length.
The dam being thus left unrepaired, the water drained through it, and the level space was converted into the rich meadow which has been described.
Frequently, in such cases, if there is any small island in the centre, it is taken advantage of, and the dam is built out to it from either bank.
Manganese when mated with Rataplan threw Mandragora, dam of Apology, winner of the Oaks and St Leger, whose sire was Adventurer, son of Newminster.
This at least is the generally accepted theory, although Eclipse's dam is said to have been covered by Shakespeare as well as by Marske.
Highflyer is represented through his greatly esteemed son Sir Peter Teazle, commonly called Sir Peter (1784), whosedam was Papillon by Snap.
The race was won by Lord Derby's bay filly Bridget, bred by himself--her sire being Herod and her dam Jemima.
Careless was by Spanker from a Barb mare, so that Childers's dam was closely in-bred to Spanker.
It was a peach of a dam when they got it finished; and the little stream that trickled along between the hillsides filled it up by next day, making a lake big enough to put a boat in.
He showed her his waterfall, and a part of a small dam that he had constructed just for fun across a little brook.
The break in the dam must be repaired at once, so he hurried back to the burrow to tell his mate and they set to work.
He had traveled many weary miles by lakes and rivers, to find a spot where such a dam could be built.
The three tiers of logs at the bottom of the dam were occasionally tied together by putting on a log ten feet long that would lie across all three tiers.
The following morning the meddlesome strangers loaded their belongings into the great duck, carried it around the end of the dam and paddled away down stream.
This kind of a dam could be enlarged at any time, as the needs of Beaver City grew.
The dam was severely tried during these spring freshets.
Soon the logs and drift-wood began to come down faster than the three at the dam could handle it for it must be laid nicely, and often one stick was placed in several positions before it suited.
The brush and stone dam could also be made almost anywhere, but the kind Shaggycoat wanted, which was easier to make than any other could be built only in certain places, so he had chosen the spot with great care.
The beavers were nearly drowned out of their lodge during this high water, but finally a portion of the dam gave way and the water fell.
There must be a dambuilt that would flow all this country, and he would be the builder.
He said, "Henceforth, there shall be no dam here, and the salmon shall ascend the river!
Rabbit built a dam of stakes across the stream, and told Frog to watch, while he broke in the top of Beaver's lodge.
Therefore Coyote made a rocky dam across the stream, very high, so that the salmon could not leap over it.
The broken dam at the mouth of the Fraser River now forms the cañon.
There was a dam across both the Fraser and the Columbia rivers.
De tros ging over in handen van Klaas Ree, die achterin zat en op een gegeven oogenblik, schoon er nog een heel stuk water tusschen de jol en den dam lag, floep, op de basaltkeien sprong.
The best stock is that which proceeds from a sire and a dam of pure extraction.
His dam also was of noble race, And our horsemen of the days of powder have surnamed him Sabok.
The dam then refuses of herself to let the foal touch her.
If it has for its dam an Arab mare and for its sire a Beradi horse, it is called Meghrif, and it is inferior to the Hadjin.
THE SIRE AND THE DAM 65 Treatment of the mare and foal.
Where are those noble steeds Whose dam never knew any but a noble sire?
I admit, however, that the best produce is that which proceeds from a sire and a dam both of pure race.
He attacked the Federal works, stormed them after a brief struggle, and drove the force which had occupied them back toward Beaver Dam Creek, below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
