Significados de high embankment em inglês

He crept along the rocky footpath, which rose to a two-meter- high embankment.

An abandoned electric-car track, raised aloft on a high embankment, crossed the avenue.

The road passed close to the high embankment on which the train was standing.

At length the engine stopped where the line crossed a lake on a high embankment.

At one spot, on a high embankment over standing water, the rail was gone, sunk probably.

A high embankment ran all round it, and beyond this a weedy ditch formed an additional protection against assault.

Just find a high embankment that ramps down into the canyon, skirt the edge until you see those campfires down below.

The dirt road emerged on the shore a half mile above the Willows and wound along a high embankment, crowned with oaks.

On a high embankment, level with the wall, and commanding a view of the gate, rose the solitary figure of Roderick Hardinge.

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.

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.

Behind the deep cuttings and high embankments the Confederate fighting-line was strongly placed.

The eternal river flowed beneath him, clean and steady and strong, between the high embankments.

Presently she saw the quick stilettos of stars on the small, baffled river; they ran between high embankments.

Laughing, she let me lead her along the beach, toward a place where it narrowed, squeezing by high embankments.

Though comparatively level and with splendid surface, it abounds in sharp curves and in many places runs along high embankments.