Ditches

Examples

• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This took us over several ditches breast deep in water and grown up with water plants. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the meantime workmen had been busy digging ditches and laying mains through the district that Edison intended to light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It is adapted to fire long-range shells with great rapidity and powerful effect, and is exceedingly efficient in defence of ditches and entrenchments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Deep, wide ditches, filled with water, lined the sides of both roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Edited by Gertrude