1 But the brig, frigate or what they call it, for I've no head for sea terms, never crossed a ditch without saying the Lord's Prayer backwards, struck a rock.
2 I passed the day in a ditch, and the night in a pigsty.
3 Not that a ditch was new to me, for I was born in a ditch.
4 A deep fosse, or ditch, was drawn round the whole building, and filled with water from a neighbouring stream.
5 The chair charged in a sick lurch sideways at the ditch.
6 She crept in sheer misery through the holly and through the wooden fence, stumbled down the little ditch and up into the lane, where Hilda was just getting out of the car in vexation.
7 The water was out, and the ditch a bed of mud.
8 Missing his aim, he fell into the ditch, turning completely over as he went; and striking his head against a stone, dashed out his brains.
9 It showed the barrow to be the segment of a globe, as perfect as on the day when it was thrown up, even the little ditch remaining from which the earth was dug.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 10 Outside was a ditch, dry except immediately under the fire, where there was a large pool, bearded all round by heather and rushes.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 11 On drawing near to the furze-covered bank and ditch which fortified the captain's dwelling he could hear voices within, signifying that operations had been already begun.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 12 At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 13 I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 14 He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there waited until the passers-by were at a distance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 15 The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER