1 It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 2 This small staff was quite equal to all the requirements, for a canal between Beaucaire and Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting boats for the cart and the stagecoach.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 3 I was now safe, for I could swim along the ditch without being seen, and I reached the canal in safety.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 4 Maximilian crossed the canal and entered the Rue Meslay by the boulevards.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 5 Now, I consider that the phrenologists have omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the cerebellum through the spinal canal.
6 As it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but for a considerable distance remains of large capacity.
7 It is certain that the mouth indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle.
8 It was now April, and the snow had given place to cold rains, and the unpaved street in front of Aniele's house was turned into a canal.
9 They had reached the canal bridge and, turning from their course, went on by the trees.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 10 I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.
11 So we went for a walk round by the canal and she told me she was a slavey in a house in Baggot Street.
12 approached it a repulsive, yellow, steaming liquid shot out causing some rats to scurry away into the nearby canal.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 13 But at last he came to one of the open canals with pavement on either side, and looping bridges, that run straight, at right-angles to the Grand Canal.
14 She was an inveterate watercolour painter, and the house was full of rose-coloured palaces, dark canals, swaying bridges, medieval facades, and so on.
15 She took him by the arm, and walked with him about a quarter of a mile into the country; they arrived at a lonely house, surrounded with gardens and canals.