1644 examples of dam in sentences

In the late twilight you may sometimes catch sight of a flock speeding in, silent and swift, over the Mill-dam, or hear their sonorous quacking from their feeding-ground.

But each day public opinion condemns more and more the attitude of society in former times, and discards the idea that one must accept evil, dam it in, and hide it as if it were some necessary sewer; for the only course for a free community to pursue is to foresee evil and grapple with it, and destroy it in the bud.

as I am true man, They were better beat the devil and his dam. MRS BAR.

This current will take us over the dam in about seven minutes, I should judge.

But it shan't inconvenience you," I added brightly, in time to forestall an imminent other "Nonsense!" Being thus neatly thwarted, she looked over my shoulder and bent to her oars, for we had again drifted toward the troubled waters of the dam.

Dreadnought's dam Collingwood was by Muley Moloch out of Barbelle.

This lake had, at the beginning of 1894, been a sheet of water some four and a half miles long, but, the dam at its end having given way in July, it had drained off rapidly; and when I had crossed it in November of the same year, the mud of its bed was only just becoming firm and was cracked and fissured in every direction.

But further, if the species of animals and plants are to be distinguished only by propagation, must I go to the Indies to see the sire and dam of the one, and the plant from which the seed was gathered that produced the other, to know whether this be a tiger or that tea? 24.

He passed close to the pool where Thor and he had met the old bear, and he nosed hungrily among the fishbones; he skirted the edge of the dark, deep lake; he saw the shadowy things fluttering in the gloom of the forest again; he passed over the beaver dam, and he slept for two nights close to the log-jam from which he had watched Thor throw out their first fish.

'Don't be so dam funny.

A faithful nurse thou hast; the dam that did thee yearn Upon the mountain tops no kinder could have been.

Perhaps "he," too, would have preferred a journey to Europe, and a house on the Mill-Dam. Things gradually settled themselves.

The dead pain in the semilunar ganglion (which I must remind my reader is a kind of stupid, unreasoning brain, beneath the pit of the stomach, common to man and beast, which aches in the supreme moments of life, as when the dam loses her young ones, or the wild horse is lassoed) stopped short.

In sullen silence Hagar withdrew, and for several days worked half reluctantly in the "north rooms," as Madam Conway termed a comparatively pleasant, airy suite of apartments, with a balcony above, which looked out upon the old mill-dam and the brook pouring over it.

"Am I addressing the celebrated D.K.T.?" "Am, cam, dam, damn, ham, jam, lamb" The far-away look of genius faded out of the poet's eyes.

The day the dam broke.

" "Well, he's in dam' bad company.

"And he don't know a dam' thing about cucumbers.

"It's a dam' sight worse resignin' than makin' out my applicationand that was bad enough," growled Shoop.

And say, boy, if she sets a lot of store by youwhy, youwhy, git out of this here office afore I make a dam' fool of myself!"

"Mucha dam cougie," remarked Navvy.

The first day, passing through Beaver Dam, we reached Fountain Prairie, where we were entertained by Rev. E.J. Smith, of whom further mention will be made hereafter.

His next appointment was Whitewater, where he succeeded in completing a Church, and his next field was Beaver Dam.

In 1855 he was appointed Presiding Elder of Beaver Dam District, which post he filled with great acceptability.

His subsequent appointments have been Spring Street Station, Milwaukee, Chaplain of the Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Beaver Dam, Oshkosh and Green Bay.

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