Canal

Examples

• He did this, destroying the canal as far as Goochland, and the railroad to a point as near Richmond as he could get. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The boat had a single paddle wheel in the middle near the stern, and was intended only for canal use, in the place of horses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They had seen the Roosevelt influence adding to the resources of life--irrigation, and waterways, conservation, the Panama Canal, the country life movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lord Dundas at the beginning of the century had an iron boat built for the Forth and Clyde Canal, which was propelled by steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The same thing may be said of a canal, an aqueduct, or a great pipe for bringing water to supply a great city. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The great canals, especially the Suez, developed a new system of canal engineering. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was only after all this preliminary sanitation was accomplished that the real work of digging the canal could go forward with any hope of success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Of course he fell in the canal and was nearly drowned; few boys in Milan worth their salt omitted that performance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was imported from England, and arrived in New York in May, 1829, and was tried in that year on a section of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company’s railroad. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In May, 1879, an international congress was convened, under the auspices of Ferdinand de Lesseps, to consider the question of the best location and plan of the canal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The railroads and canal should be destroyed beyond possibility of repairs for weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Large granaries were established, and proved so successful that local capital was tempted into the project of making a tow-path canal from Lockwood Landing all the way to Milan itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They appear as anchored in the new concrete docks at Colon, preparatory to their passage through the canal, after having made the longest sea voyage then on record for submarines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The great canals, especially the Suez, developed a new system of canal engineering. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Twice we crossed the famous Martian waterways, or canals, so-called by our earthly astronomers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• To overcome this difficulty skew bridges were designed, that crossed roads and canals in slanting directions. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He made the canals and organized the irrigation (_e. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The roads all go along the river mouths to the sea and to cross the country you must go along the paths beside the canals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He had recently built several canals on this property, and was at the head of a number of companies which were planning to intersect England with waterways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The three canals and the turnpike road were often so crowded that traffic was held up for days and even weeks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Down below there were mosquito marshes and canals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The making of roads, railroads, canals and tunnels has called forth thousands of ingenious mechanisms for their accomplishment. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Discovery of Satellites of Mars by Professor Asaph Hall, and its so-called Canals by Schiaparelli. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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