Embankments

Let me give you one quick example: Embankments and protection.

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Curves, Switches, Frog Angles and Crossings; the Staking out of work; Levelling; the Calculation of Cuttings; Embankments;

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

Embankments built up with incalculable labor, and protected by every device of engineering science, settled in many cases, and were repaired only after much delay and vast expense.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

Embankments of pay dirt were erected and strengthened by green logs.

The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Ridgwell Cullum 1905

Embankments I came upon a steamer of the modest size which we used to think large when we crossed the Atlantic in it, but which might be swung among the small boats from the davits of a latter-day liner.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

Along the Thames the trees are planted on the successive Embankments, in a beautiful leafy parkway following its course, broken here and there by public edifices, like the Parliament buildings, but forming a screen mostly uninterrupted, behind which a parade of grandiose hotels does not altogether hide itself from the river.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

Roman fever, but now quite unknown, thanks to the Tiber Embankments and to the light and air let into the purlieus of that mediaeval Rome for which the injudicious grieve so loudly.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

Embankments a wicked sacrifice to the commonplace, though the mud-banks of other days invited the torrent to an easy overflow of whole quarters of the town, which were left reeking with the filth of the flood that overlay the filth of the streets, and combined with it to an effect of disease and of discomfort not always personally unknown to the lover of the picturesque.

Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

Between the fine, wide Embankments and under the noble bridges there were smooth expanses of water

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

Embankments suddenly showed themselves high in the air, and as suddenly dipped again; then there were long stretches of coppice, with red bracken, and

Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869