Which preposition to use with dam

of Occurrences 36%

The dam of Red Lake is an elegantly modeled rib of metamorphic slate, brought into relief because of its superior strength, and because of the greater intensity of the glacial erosion of the rock immediately above it, caused by a steeply inclined tributary glacier, which entered the main trunk with a heavy down-thrust at the head of the lake.

at Occurrences 16%

Another kind of meadow or bog occurs on densely timbered hillsides where small perennial streams have been dammed at short intervals by fallen trees.

in Occurrences 16%

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

for Occurrences 8%

As long as you two stick to your work, instead of sticking out your colors and sticking your knives into each other, I am very glad to have you for neighbors, but now that you have shown yourselves to be jack-asses instead of vegetables, I would not give an American Beaver dam for the two of you.

on Occurrences 7%

If the Congress directs that a sea-level canal be constructed its direction will, of course, be carried out; otherwise the Canal will be built on substantially the plan for a lock canal outlined in the accompanying papers, such changes being made, of course, as may be found actually necessary, including possibly the change recommended by the Secretary of War as to the site of the dam on the Pacific side.

from Occurrences 6%

"We have to get some pictures of Gatun Dam from the lower side.

across Occurrences 5%

This plan contemplated a sea-level canal from Limon Bay to Bohio, where a dam across the valley created a lake extending to Bas Obispo, the difference in level being overcome by two locks; the summit level extended from Bas Obispo to Paraiso, reached by two more locks, and was supplied with water by a feeder from an artificial reservoir created by a dam at Alhajuela, in the upper Chagres Valley.

with Occurrences 5%

The city was sleeping; some customs officials were taking the air; and the water kept pouring through the holes of the dam with a deafening roar.

against Occurrences 4%

And the ecstasy of such moments is like a dam against reality, pressing it back.

by Occurrences 3%

In the mean time I am lying around loose on the deck of this magnificent vessel, the Mercy G. Tarbox, of Nantucket, bred by Noah's Ark out of Pilot-boat, dam by Mudscow out of Raging Canawl.

without Occurrences 2%

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.

before Occurrences 2%

He had not proceeded far when the snorting of the old dam before him reminded him of his danger.

like Occurrences 2%

I looked up-stream;the ice had gathered in one high barrier mixed with flood-wood and timber, and, bearing above all the uprooted trunk of a huge sycamore, was coming down upon the dam like a battering-ram.

to Occurrences 2%

This is still called Bog River, and though above the dam to Mud Lake, where it takes its rise, it is deep and sluggish, yet it is doing it honor overmuch to dignify it by the name of a river.

unto Occurrences 2%

Fearful Megaera, with her snaky twine, Was cursed dam unto thy damned self; And Hircan tigers in the desert rocks Did foster up thy loathed, hateful life; Base Ignorance the wicked cradle rock'd, Vile Barbarism was wont to dandle thee; Some wicked hellhound tutored thy youth.

above Occurrences 1%

Below me leaped the stream, deep in its ravine of slate, roaring over the dam above the rocky gorge only to flow out again between the ledge and the stone foundations of the grist-mill opposite.

behind Occurrences 1%

Across the lower end of the bed of a brook which was nearly dried up, and in which there were only a few rivulets left running, they had fastened a hurdle of bamboo, and thrown up a shallow dam behind it.

as Occurrences 1%

The primary meaning seems rather the hollow than the bank, though this would matter little, as the same transference of meaning may have taken place as in dyke and ditch, But when Mr. Wedgwood gives mill-dam as the first meaning of the word doccia, his wish seems to have stood godfather.

over Occurrences 1%

They made a splendid dam over the brook, which was very low; but one night came a storm, father's meadows were flooded, they could not get the dam undone, and some sheep were drowned.

after Occurrences 1%

The calves may be pastured with their dams after the autumn equinox.

between Occurrences 1%

" "A dam between those wallsand you have another lake!"

below Occurrences 1%

We fled before another squall, over another breadth of Bammydumcook, and made a portage around a great dam below the lake.

into Occurrences 1%

When the evening was come, the Cyclop drove home his sheep; and as fortune directed it, either of purpose, or that his memory was overruled by the gods to his hurt (as in the issue it proved), he drove the males of his flock, contrary to his custom, along with the dams into the pens.

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