sea-walls

I determined to land and to inspect the “remarkable lofty granite pillar,” which was dimly visible from our deck; but we rowed in vain along the tall and rusty sea-walls.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

There is little in the new city which arose to remind one of the awful tragedy -- unless it be the strong sea-walls constructed to keep out future floods.

The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall

Here, again, the problem rose as to whether they should be tunnelled or the line carried along their sloping edge, supported by sea-walls, as was the high road above.

The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway

Holland, in Lincolnshire, is by Ingulph called _Hoiland_, a name which has been thought to mean _hedgeland_, in allusion to the sea-walls or hedges by which it was preserved from inundation.

Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various

The Dutch system of mattresses, gabions, revetting and sea-walls have furnished models for all the continents, the mouths of the Danube and the

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

Irish colony, which largely built its granite sea-walls, and for many years humbly did the laborious work on which the huge commerce of the port rested.

The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir

The harbour was hidden by the elms, but below lay the frosted marsh and islands, girdled by the glistening sea-walls and their coal black shadows, and great wide

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

That was good when the tide was out, and the sea-walls rose black from a silver plain of mud, valleyed with channels thin and dark as veins.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

But then he looked out over Pelham Bay, and it had swollen and waxed wrathful during the night, and was as a small ocean -- with great waves and billows that came roaring over docks and sea-walls.

The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914

And that this frightful power need never wait on wind or tide, nor be hindered in execution by any weather much short of a hurricane, is assured when we note that to-day, while the largest of the excursion steamers are heaving to the whitecaps, these are lying as immovable almost as sea-walls.

The U-boat hunters 1912