"I warrant," said Eurymachus again, "he could not raise a fence or dig a ditch for his livelihood, if a man would hire him to work in a garden.

Though the activity in other and more novel operations might attract greater attention, the industry of those engaged in filling up the ditch, and the fire of the breaching batteries, never relaxed.

Though all attempts to cross the ditch at the gate of St. Romanus were long baffled by the Greeks, and the mining operations at Blachern were discovered and defeated by Johann Grant, still the superior number and indefatigable perseverance of the Ottomans at last filled up the ditch, and the fire of their guns ruined the walls.

The interval between these walls enabled the defenders to form in perfect security, and facilitated their operations in clearing the ditch and retarding the preparation for assault.

At last, therefore, as the singer still kept out of sight, I leaped the ditch and pushed into the scrub.

The way the colt jumped ditches and washes and other obstructions proved his keen sight.

So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.

Still they pressed on, till the Eighth (of Clarke's brigade) reached the ditch.

And therefore the inhabitants, at such time as the riuer Nilus floweth, are accustomed to open a great ditch, the head wherof extendeth into the said riuer, and from thence they conueigh the same within halfe a mile of Alexandria, and so consequently by meanes of conduct-pipes the water commeth vnto the cesternes of Alexandria, which being full serue the citie from one inundation to another.

The traces of a feeble attempt at forming a ditch and mound attested in after-years the spot where the last of the Romans passed their night of suffering and despair.

She paused when we reached a bridge that spanned the ditch dividing the grounds from the farm, aware that, save on special invitation, she might not, even in my company, go beyond the former.

The whole population,men, women, and children,on the night of the 22d of April, 1826, issued from their defences, crossed the moat in silence, passed the ditches and trenches, and made their way through an opening of the besiegers' lines.

The winter months were devoted to burning canebrakes, clearing underbrush and rolling logs in the new grounds, splitting rails and mending fences, cleaning ditches, spreading manure, knocking down the old cotton and corn stalks, and breaking the soil of the fields to be planted.

She has, indeed, achieved a labor of world-wide value by completing the "big ditch" between the Oceans.

The camp was now got into order; the north and south sides were protected by a bank 4 feet 6 inches high on the inside, having a ditch 10 feet wide and 6 feet deep on the outside.

Mr. Brown is running his ditch half full and has been for some little time.

" THE DECOY MAN, DOG, AND DUCKS."The first thing the decoy-man did, on approaching the ditch, was to take a piece of lighted peat or turf, and to hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him.

On the far side of it men of the Manchester Regiment were lining a ditch, under cover of a hedge, waiting the order to charge.

Seven soldiers were told off for this duty; four were killed and the other three returned wounded, reporting that between the open breach and the intrenchment extended a large ditch filled with fireworks and defended by several batteries.

I flew out the ditch up the hill and across the field.

I followed the water-ditch around every projection of the mountain, still ascending higher amid the same wild scenery, till at length I reached the Oderteich, a great dam, in a kind of valley formed by some mountain peaks on the side of the Brocken.

[Footnote 146: A ditch or ravine.]

Now I've given up the last ditch.

I remember seeing six riders come signally to grief over a blind ditch in this jungle.

In the Tool'ries front-parlor, discussin' affairs With our heels on the backs o' Napoleon's new chairs, An' princes a-mixin' our cocktails an' slings, Excep', wal, excep' jest a very few things, Sech ez navies an' armies an' wherewith to pay, An' gittin' our sogers to run t' other way, An' not be too over-pertickler in tryin' To hunt up the very las' ditches to die in.