39 examples of impound in sentences

Why not take more elevated and broader views, walk in the great garden, not skulk in a little "debauched" nook of it? consider the beauty of the forest, and not merely of a few impounded herbs? Let your walks now be a little more adventurous; ascend the hills.

If tender is made after the distress, but before it is impounded, the landlord must abandon the distress and bear the cost himself.

It shames him to be found Less vile than those who cannot bear to see Their sink of filth laid open to the ground: Wherefore they shut our mouths, our books impound, Garble with lies each sentence that may be Cited to prove their foul hypocrisy.

Chorus To my bullocks then I say No matter where you stray, You will never be impounded any more; For you’re running, running, running on the duffer’s piece of land, Free selected on the Eumerella shore.

A short clay pipe, smoked as a digestive, was impounded by the watchful Mrs. Jobson the moment he had finished it.

And although the horses were always impounded, and a fine inflicted, still the nuisance continued without abatement, in fact, was rather on the increase.

If one gets the other by a finger even, it is a great advantage, as he would whip nimbly round, and threaten to break the impounded finger; this would be considered quite fair.

She attempted the poor consolation of an "acid tablet," and it was at once impounded by the watchful Mrs. Kingdom.

She attempted the poor consolation of an "acid tablet," and it was at once impounded by the watchful Mrs. Kingdom.

We are over-fond of drawing monitory morals from the lives of gifted persons, tacking together our little ten-by-twelve pinfolds to impound breachy human nature in, but it is only because we know more than we have any business to know of the private concerns of such persons that we have the opportunity.

"I shall order this document to be impounded," said he sternly, after making a brief comparison.

On another estate (Content), the attorney ordered the cattle of a poor man (a member of my Chapel) to be taken up and impounded.

to redeem them; when, as soon as he carried them back, they were again taken and impounded.

He states that he exhausted his last farthing to redeem the cattle the first time, and was also obliged to borrow of his friends; they have now been impounded five weeks, and unless he can raise the money to redeem them (upwards of 10l.), they will be sold to pay the expenses.

"It has been impounded with other so-called 'enemy property' by your friends the British.

So long as there were great areas of unrestricted flood-plain above Vicksburg to impound the freshets and lower their crests, the levees below required no great height or strength; but the tasks of reclamation were at best arduous enough to make rapid expansion depend upon the spur of great expectations.

Runaways when caught were to be impounded, advertised and restored to their masters upon payment of captors' and custodians' fees.

The 'Cardigan Castle' had been a swagger liner until she was impounded by Government to act as troopship, and she was provided with splendid bathrooms.

Among the most remarkable of these ancient works is the Horra-Bera tank, the bund of which is between three and four miles in length and from 50 to 70 ft. in height, and although now in ruins would formerly impound a reservoir lake of from eight to ten miles long and three to four miles broad.

of the total amount impounded.

It is now under construction, and when completed will impound an area of 1,115 acres.

River water, impounded for the purpose, provided the means of irrigating an all but rainless desert countryside.

" THIRLMERE, one of the lakes in the English Lake District, in Cumberland, 5 m. SE. of Keswick; since 1885 its waters have been impounded for the use of Manchester, the surface raised 50 ft. by embankments, and the area more than doubled.

At first she persisted in asserting that the prosecution was based upon manifest error; that the impounded notes, instead of being forged, were genuine Bank-of-England paper.

The American Minister promptly induced the Chinese authorities to impound the munitions, thus inflicting a hard blow to Aguinaldo.

39 examples of  impound  in sentences