As he left the bridge, he saw the woman in the blue veil hurry past him, and with a furtive look about her, turn and go down the steep levee toward the water.
But under the bridge all was silent, and the levee was deserted in both directions.
The next instant a mongrel pup scurried down the levee and dropped shivering at his feet.
The levee was like a dam along the course of the stream, and back of this dam lay the town.
Because this levee is weakening, and if it gives way the flood will be worse than ever.
They've got a good levee there, and aren't so badly off as we are.
These were only a few of the remarks that could be heard along the levee that night.
The levee at this town was a sloping one, faced with cobble stones, and when the river was low, horses and wagons were driven down it to the landing stages of the steamers.
If the levee gave way the town might be wiped out.
The scene on the levee was a lively one, and also a dangerous one, for the waters were beating with ever-increasing force on the sloping wall of earth and stones, that held back the raging torrent from the town.
The danger to the town, should the levee give way, was so evident, that every available man had been called on to strengthen the sloping bank, which kept back the waters.
Once or twice a day the god holds a levee and on festivals he is carried in procession.
They are not congregational or didactic, though if any of the faithful are in the temple at the time of the god's levee it is proper for them to enter and salute him.
River men along thelevee heard that signal and laughed.
He did not stop again until he reached the narrow street at the top of the levee bank, where the quaint stone houses of the old French residents were being loaded with wares.
Down on the Levee rich and poor battled for places on the landing-stages, and would have thrown themselves into the flood had there been no boats to save them from the dreaded Dutch.
Down on the leveewheels rattled over the white stones washed clean by the driving rain.
Near the levee a large government building was in course of construction for a Custom House.
As is customary at a great lord's levee there were present men of all conditions; they agreed, however, in one point, that they were all beggars.
When the levee was finished and everybody gone, Lord Fylingdale sank into a chair.
I have not felt so pleasantly these three months as I do at present, though I have a great cold with coming into an unaired house, and have been forced to carry that cold to the King's levee and the drawing-room.
Parasites and preferment-hunters crowded the levee of the new lord keeper.
Ordinarily a man employed as a levee watchman would not have been told to come to the private office at all.
The Declaration was presented to the Prince Regent at the Levee at Carlton House on July 1st, by the Lord Lieutenant of the county, accompanied by the Earl of Orford, the Earl of Ancram, Lord C.
An address founded on the resolutions was also adopted, and was presented to the Prince Regent by Mr. Coke at the Levee on April 21st.
Alice," seduced at eighteen, was at the age of twenty-one away down the line in the West Side levee underworld.
At thelevee last evening which I attended for the purpose, I made an appointment with the Pres.
I had a considerable talk with Seth Barton at the levee and with Tom Green at breakfast.
From behind the levee of the peninsula we were able with our glasses to examine the fortifications of Vicksburg.
A question of some interest was raised by the claim of the trustees of the Cairo city property to be paid for the use by the Government wharf boats of the paved portion of the leveewhich protected the town against the Ohio River.
In addition to the canal and levee construction works there are numerous impounding reservoirs which are brought into requisition to control overflow waters from the great streams.
As adjuncts to these vast canalization works there have been enormous amounts of embankment, dike and levee construction.
He paused on the levee to survey with concern and astonishment the flood of waters behind it, and then asked an officer the way to General Sherman's headquarters.
The officer, who was greatly impressed by the gentleman's looks, led him at once to a trestle bridge which spanned the distance from the levee bank over the flood to a house up to its first floor in the backwaters.
To be sure, the saw and axe, and likewise the levee and the snakes, were to be there, too.
Henry liked to join in the night-watches on the levee when he had finished his duties, and the brothers often walked the round chatting together.
I’ll hold a levee of Chiefs tonight and Lodge to-morrow.
A trite adage says that "it takes all kinds of people to make a world;" verily, then, the Levee is a world.
The levee has not given way in a long time, to do any extensive damage.
The levee at Carrollton is considerably higher than the plain upon which reposes the town.
A log at a time is hauled upon the levee by large chains attached to a stationary windlass.
The rough and homely produce of the far and cold Iowa--of the distant Wisconsin--of the black and stormy Northern Lakes, is here thrown upon the Levee in hurry and confusion mingled and mixed with the sweets and luxuries of the sunny tropics.
Despite the bad reputation of the levee we saw absolutely nothing to annoy us.
Many darkies are here, and the worst looking set of levee loafers yet.
Now and then a little spire or black stack peeping above the levee shows the presence of a village.
We found a levee camp with 36 tents, and examined the commissary with interest.
If there is anything in the art of physiognomy, many of these levee men are desperadoes.
This was a great comfort, affording a sense of security, which the reputation of the levee made important.
The two gentlemen in charge of thelevee camp, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Ward, went with us into the woods, but the game was wary.
He then entered very fully with him into the whole plan of his policy, in which Bernadotte appeared entirely to concur; every day he attended the emperor's levee together with his son, mixing with the other courtiers.
His levee presented a still more remarkable spectacle!
The levee was strewn with merchandise of every description, and the wind blowing from the northwest threw the sparks from the goods and saved them all.
A levee is in course of construction, which, it is thought, will effectually protect the city from being flooded during the season of the rise of the river.
He prepared another violent charge to be made upon Whitworth at the levee on May 1st, but the English Ambassador was absent.
The story runs that the first time she appeared at a levee after the marriage the Emperor thought fit to express a hope that "the good conduct of Citoyenne Talleyrand would help them to forget the escapades of Mme.
I had a press of clients at my own levee this morning and reached the Palace just in time to hear what you had to say to Vedius and Satronius.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "levee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
