Canals

Examples

• 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.
• There followed others for a machine that should scoop out earth to make canals or aqueducts, for a Market or Passage Boat to use on canals, and for a Dispatch Boat that should travel quickly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• With the construction of canals and harbors, great improvements have been made in dredges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Modern drawbridges across rivers, canals, the entrances of docks, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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