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Meanings of high embankment in English

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Usage of high embankment in English
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He crept along the rocky footpath, which rose to a two-meter- high embankment.
The Flood
2
An abandoned electric-car track, raised aloft on a high embankment, crossed the avenue.
The Web of Life
3
The road passed close to the high embankment on which the train was standing.
Miss Merivale's Mistake
4
At length the engine stopped where the line crossed a lake on a high embankment.
Ranching for Sylvia
5
At one spot, on a high embankment over standing water, the rail was gone, sunk probably.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
6
A high embankment ran all round it, and beyond this a weedy ditch formed an additional protection against assault.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
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Just find a high embankment that ramps down into the canyon, skirt the edge until you see those campfires down below.
Snow Crash
8
The dirt road emerged on the shore a half mile above the Willows and wound along a high embankment, crowned with oaks.
Lydia of the Pines
9
On a high embankment, level with the wall, and commanding a view of the gate, rose the solitary figure of Roderick Hardinge.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
10
They had now reached the mill-race and had seated themselves on the high embankment where they could watch the water swirl swiftly beneath them.
Mary Louise
11
Fortunately for us the high embankment in our rear protected the camp to some extent and we never got the full force of the sandstorm.
With Our Army in Palestine
12
Behind the deep cuttings and high embankments the Confederate fighting-line was strongly placed.
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
13
The eternal river flowed beneath him, clean and steady and strong, between the high embankments.
The Dawn of All
14
Presently she saw the quick stilettos of stars on the small, baffled river; they ran between high embankments.
The Trespasser
15
Laughing, she let me lead her along the beach, toward a place where it narrowed, squeezing by high embankments.
The Great Book of Amber
16
Though comparatively level and with splendid surface, it abounds in sharp curves and in many places runs along high embankments.
British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car / Being a Record of...
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