She had noted some reserve in Railton's manner when he mentioned the broken dyke and knew the flockmasters were careful about their dry walls.

This golden dyke, two and a half to three miles wide and of undeterminable length and depth, had merely been formed by strong, cunning hands into walls, battlements, houses, mosques, and minarets.

At such times you see every little dyke or embankment with a crowd of bustling villagers, each with a heavy bundle of grain on his head, hurrying to and fro like a stream of busy ants.

Every minutest architectural detail had been carved out of the solid gold dyke that had formed the city; nothing had been added to fill out any portion.

He came back along the meadow dyke and stopped for a few minutes when he reached its weakest place.

"I have been to see the mended dyke," she said, and he knew that she had pluck.

I am learning to row here, for, circumscribed as my walks necessarily are, impossible as it is to resort to my favourite exercise on horseback upon these narrow dykes, I must do something to prevent my blood from stagnating; and this broad brimming river, and the beautiful light canoes which lie moored, at the steps, are very inviting persuaders to this species of exercise.

A south course of ten miles over a poor stony country brought us to the head of a stream, which, following in the same direction to latitude 24 degrees 51 minutes 52 seconds, we found plenty of feed on its banks and pools of water in its bed, which was here thirty yards wide; the principal features of the adjacent country being low granite ridges, intersected by occasional quartz dykes, alternating with chlorite schist.

Do you remember the long, lonely path between two ragged little dykes that led from the Den to the house of the Painted Lady?

He had scaled the rough stone dyke and was out in the turnip-field adjacent.

The opposite bank is a steep dyke, with a footpath along the top.

Despite this, he held out until, in the evening, the strengthened dyke stood high above the stream.

"Well; I'm afraid of nothing, I hope: only I wish one could meet this cholera face to face, as one will those Russians, with a good sword in one's hand, and a good horse between one's knees; and have a chance of giving him what he brings, instead of being kicked off by the cowardly Rockite, no one knows how; and not even from behind a turf dyke, but out of the very clouds.

Pursuing my walk along the river's bank, upon an artificial dyke, sufficiently high and broad to protect the fields from inundation by the ordinary rising of the tidefor the whole island is below high water markI passed the blacksmith's and cooper's shops.

He remembered what Alexander did at the siege of Tyre; he constructed a vast dyke of stone and timber and iron across the harbor, in some places twelve hundred feet deep, and thus cut off all egress and ingress.

There is a great suburb without it, and a great double dyke, well watered on each hand without it.

The high crags which here shoulder the Wall are part of the Great Whin Sill, an intrusive dyke of dolerite which stretches from Greenhead northeastward across the county nearly to Berwick.

Sweep the golden reed-beds; Crisp the lazy dyke; Hunger into madness Every plunging pike.