railway-cutting

In railway-cutting it would be usually an empty stretch of rail; and the more empty, the greater the tactical success.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The river-track took them up a great glen, the sides of which were about as sheer as a railway-cutting.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

But an application of what may be termed "the railway-cutting test" yields, perhaps, the most eloquent testimony both to the magnitude of the original task undertaken by the

Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898

That is something to have experienced; as it is to have sweated at night in a railway-cutting along with other men under the eye of a ganger, and to have known starlight, or rain, or frost, or fog, or tempest meanwhile.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

As a matter of fact, farm-burning had no effect in checking the railway-cutting, and had a considerable effect in embittering the population.

The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

This find -- the largest collective one of gold objects ever made in Western Europe -- was discovered in making a railway-cutting for the Limerick and Ennis Railway in 1854.

The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886

The houses here were of a humble description -- not even semidetached, but standing in long, dismal rows, a good many of them backing on to a railway-cutting.

Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884

A road stretched over its crest, and thence along one side of the railway-cutting.

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

It may be, again, that ever so many years hence, when Mr. Darwin's earth - worms shall have buried Oropa hundreds of feet deep, some one sinking a well or making a railway-cutting will unearth these chapels, and will believe them to have been houses, and to contain the _exuviae_ of the living forms that tenanted them.

Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

The railway-station adjoining occupies the site of some very old houses, and in the railway-cutting the workmen came upon a sewer, in which were discovered some silver spoons of ancient date.

Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865