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    1. The city is not on Beghtik dam, but draws water power thru the cut into the last canal of the interconnects


    2. I started to shake and tears broke through the dam of sullen resistance that I had built up during these last few days of torture


    3. They'd been over this by mail for years now, they just denied his assertion that the quakes from the impact would shatter every dam


    4. The city and the dam was a fuzzy line on the horizon, the North Sentinels were a significant lump, as tall as the main dam-wall directly astern


    5. In a couple miles you reach lake henarDee and the dam itself where there are three miles of seventy-story waterfront till the beginning of the Grand Canal that goes on to Chardovia


    6. The city of Zharvai is on the great dam at the south end of North Lake


    7. The dam is eleven miles long and up to seventeen hundred feet high at a point in the center of town


    8. This is the deepest dam ever built by all known races of man at any time, even in the Energy Age


    9. Zharvai crowded close on the dam, making use of water power and it’s position at the mouth of the interconnects


    10. Zharvai is a pretty lively city, much steeper on it’s dam than the Yakhan, with a lot more styles of the northlands, grandiose Dwarven architecture, signs with sigils from Salvadoran times

    11. There was an intermittent stream in a canyon they could dam up and use as a little irrigation for their campsite


    12. The Canyon Lakes are in what was once the lower canyon, a dam one third as high, one eighth as long that held back a body of water one ten thousandth as large


    13. The whole forty mile curve of the dam seemed to circle this point


    14. That burst a dam, thru the spread fingers of her hands came the hoarsest whisper


    15. This was a very different city, the hangleaf fronds and numerous large canals curving with the dam were unlike anything on Earth


    16. construction of a dam or barricade to hold back the water


    17. To see a dam in your dream signifies repressed emotions or feelings that need to be released


    18. To dream of a bursting dam denotes that you have lost control of your anger and are overwhelmed with emotions


    19. When you dam up a stream of water, as soon as the dam is full, as much water must run over the dam-head as if there was no dam at all


    20. When they have got this quantity, the dam is full, and the whole stream which flows in afterwards must run over

    21. But as he said those words the memories had flooded back as if a dam had broken


    22. I sobbed for my mother and father who I had lost at an early age but more than this I cried for myself and my lost youth and again I asked the question what am I doing here? The nurse tried to comfort me but it was useless the pent up emotions that had been held inside me for so long broke through and just like a dam breaking they flooded out


    23. “Come on you dam Tommie’s we are ready and waiting for you”, and the whole of the German line in our sector opened up firing


    24. As a dam which has failed to hold back deep waters


    25. This is where I found my first beaver dam in Lennox County


    26. Within days, he had imposed tough discipline and additional training on the men guarding the hydro-electric dam, and there was talk throughout the Battalion that he would be setting the standard for the rest of the company officers


    27. Then the dam burst


    28. The commissioner turned and ran with the others to the dam, and jumped in


    29. As the earth scoured away from under this now-raging torrent, it morphed into an ever more towering waterfall which, in its turn, wore away the base of the natural dam until, with an earthshaking shudder, it collapsed entirely


    30. It is called ‘log-rolling’ when one politician says ‘If you vote for my airport, I’ll vote for your dam

    31. the construction of the Tellico Dam


    32. Sada reported that when an irrigation dam ruptured in Syria on June 4, 2002 President al-Assad asked Saddam for help, and a lightbulb went off


    33. “Sielsrus,” Nic named it, referring to the “soul’s rest” we’d found together that afternoon at the dam


    34. floodgates of a dam had been opened


    35. gates of the dam, man mistakenly thinks that at orgasm, ejaculation


    36. Chandelle moved toward Jock and just then his phone rang, dam he thought could be the hospital and he was on call, he looked at her and said sorry I have to take this call


    37. Hamish wanted his life with Rachael back as it was in the beginning before his dam accident; he felt a wave of pure happiness wash over him remembering how she could turn his tough exterior into that of a little kitten


    38. meditation to dam up the energies on the higher levels, or to


    39. We haven"t built a dam in years


    40. It was formed by a dam constructed across the riverbed of Chagres River, at one side of the Gatun Locks

    41. Roomie had the inner room, so I said that I did not mind listening to them getting it on, but “it was 12 degrees and getting colder down at Boulder Dam tonight” (anyone remember Gordon Lightfoot?), and that I did not exactly have any place to go, especially when the library was closed


    42. the Hardap Dam, which is


    43. The Endangered Species Act has been used to stop logging, to reduce the production of farm produce, to stop building a dam, to interfere with the construction of hospitals and other buildings, has added significant costs to road construction and has prevented people from control and use of their own property


    44. There have been numerous mistakes made such as one identifying the snail darter which interfered with the construction of the Tellico Dam


    45. Construction of the dam could have conserved water as well as generating electrical power


    46. Later there were numerous numbers of the little creatures found far away from the Dam


    47. Twenty-five miles east of town, going up into the mountains towards Butte, a mining company had dammed the Clark Fork River with the result that huge amounts of toxic sediments from the closed mines were not only on the river bottom, but they layered the dam which was set to burst at any moment poisoning the water downstream including Missoula’s


    48. shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me


    49. It was like witnessing the bursting of a dam


    50. “I have reliable information that Madeleine was kidnapped, beaten, raped, and murdered, and that her body was thrown into the lake near Arade Dam, where it is now submerged














































    1. Was it that God Dammed Bishop? Is this about us?"


    2. There was a long looping northern arm that had been dammed up and connected together in hundreds of places


    3. “There is no Charlie anymore they murdered him my lovely boy they murdered him them and their dammed war


    4. He dammed them for all time for sullying so perfect a dream, but he came to realize that their greed for power wasn’t so much a personal sin as a part of human nature


    5. Twenty-five miles east of town, going up into the mountains towards Butte, a mining company had dammed the Clark Fork River with the result that huge amounts of toxic sediments from the closed mines were not only on the river bottom, but they layered the dam which was set to burst at any moment poisoning the water downstream including Missoula’s


    6. It was as if a huge hand had dammed the river somewhere out of sight


    7. It was as if a huge hand had dammed the river


    8. Towering apartment blocks on the foreshore had dammed the waters for nearly a day before their foundations collapsed and the resulting gigantic piles of rubble diverted the flow south along the main road, turning it into a swiftly flowing river until it burst through the dunes at the old sports ground


    9. Not just because of the high water pressure battering his body, but it was also dammed cold


    10. "I suppose," Hank said, fighting back the river of anguish dammed within him

    11. He suddenly dammed up any doubts she had in her mind about him in that regard


    12. This Love that I now felt and received was larger than man himself can conjure, for it was not me that Loved, but He that lived within, and it could no more be dammed up than one could dam the ocean


    13. He would profess not to have: done those things the god abominates, allowed one to hunger, caused one to weep, murdered, caused a man misery, taken food or offerings from the temple, committed adultery, stolen, dammed running water, or


    14. ‘Because we haven’t got a dammed thing on sound!’ I said in horror


    15. that had been dammed off to create a water reserve for the hay farm-


    16. His ancestors had dammed the creek and built an irrigation system for the farm, and had laid the foundations of the village where my family lived, together with the families of all the other farm workers


    17. The conscience is pure, no soul to be dammed


    18. Dammed up the rivers, moved the face of the earth


    19. He would be double dammed if the case does not go in our favor


    20. The judge now believed that he was dammed if he did, and dammed if he didn't confirm the objection

    21. They were in uproar and the rapping of the judge's gravel be dammed


    22. And that dammed Roosevelt


    23. There was only one item, but it was dammed important, a note from the Oakleigh Post Master


    24. dammed the Mayo river and vomited its mud and torn up


    25. But I am getting ahead of myself… How quickly did the industrialization of the White man destroy an entire continent; he discovery of oil fields… the invention and creation of something so horrendous which never existed before called industrial pollution: huge Bessemer furnaces belching fire and smoke, huge coal pits ripped open so the streams could be poisoned with heavy metals, dammed rivers and lakes, factories… the pits of hell, the slaughterhouses of Chicago… the millions and millions of domesticated enslaved cows, pigs, sheep, horses slaughtered and butchered… onward and upward! For what? Why? What is the goal?


    26. To this day: the Dutch damn themselves, calling themselves the ‘goddammned Dutch’ proudly in public: ‘I am a Dammed Dutchman’


    27. If she won’t leave a message I’ll be dammed if I’ll call her


    28. The nurse listens without interrupting as Caroline's story comes pouring out as if it had been dammed up just waiting to be released


    29. It’s an elegant steel truss cantilever, named for a natural bridge that was formed by a major landslide approximately three hundred years ago that had temporarily dammed the Columbia River


    30. For roughly one hundred thousand dollars, about two and a half million in today’s dollars, Carnegie quietly bought up all the properties along a three-mile stretch of the Millstone River, dammed it, and produced a first-class rowing course—shallow, straight, protected, lovely to look at, and quite free of coal barges

    31. The torrent, dammed up above, sent its water rushing along the open flumes of scooped tree trunks striding on trestle-legs to the turbines working the stamps on the lower plateau—the mesa grande of the San Tome mountain


    32. and she could only stand and stare at him, all the flood of questioning dammed up at her And now, fear of unknown things seized her, leaped swiftly out of the darkness at her lips


    33. the wide corn lands, the days of growth and building, when the marshes were drained and the waste land brought under the plough, when one built the house, his son added the dome, his son spread the wings and dammed the river


    34. It is as though some people, to free a dammed up river, should have all but cut through a ditch, when nothing but an opening is necessary for the water to flow into this ditch and do the rest, and there should appear some people who would persuade them that, rather than let off the water, they should construct above the river a machine with buckets, which, drawing the water up on one side, would drop it into the same river from the other side


    1. A huge willow tree had fallen, collapsing the bank, and partially damming the river


    2. The newspaper headlines were damming and they still continue to haunt me


    3. The bridge had been destroyed and stone crumbled and rolled into the canal, damming the water


    4. There were some leaves damming water along the gutter beside the curb, creating a dark puddle


    5. This knowledge is so damming to


    6. If you look at the miracles of modern civilization, whether it is the damming of rivers or the mechanization of farming techniques: every new advancement is always justified by The Greater Good of human society


    7. "They're moving in," he said, his voice steady; ever so controlled which she could not understand since she could already feel the sweat damming between her breasts


    8. There are worse things to do in a very hot country th an to put on a large conical sun- hat of plaited palm leaves and take off most of your clothes, and play about with mud and water, damming and diverting little trickling streams


    9. High up in the hills he made a large lake by damming a stream


    10. The peasants, excited at this unfair judgment, sent their women to prevent the landowner's men from damming the channel

    1. Gengee City was the second of the four main dams that kept the water in the current lake and not down in the cerrado where it once was


    2. The actual center of Knidola is almost twenty miles downstream, with a thirty mile row of seaports and beaches along the dams of the lake


    3. Carol dams the flood of words threatening to overflow her defensive walls


    4. 6 million to facilitate cloud seeding over Brisbane's two main dams, Wivenhoe and Somerset


    5. By the end of 2010, all South East Queensland dams were overflowing


    6. with construction of hospitals and dams, and added significantly to the costs of businesses in their


    7. Hydroelectric dams have provided fresh water to arid sections of our country and have given us inexpensive electricity


    8. There are about 80,000 existing dams which do not have hydroelectric capacity and the addition of that could add lots to our electric power supply


    9. Cheever strode aft past the coffer dams, across to the starboard companionway and down toward the compartment at the end


    10. as water held back dams

    11. The 21-mile drop in elevation between Lake Superior and Lake Huron allows the passage of huge Lake carriers though the system of locks, dams and canals built since 1855


    12. The work of the agency is a combination of government protection of a resource that needs to last for hundreds of years, and the rapid delivery of water at affordable prices from a series of dams that covers hundreds of miles of farmland


    13. The biggest user is in Operations and Maintenance, which carries the water from a number of dams, into power plants, through the aqueduct and over mountains for final delivery to municipalities


    14. Serve as a soup with papa dams or with steamed


    15. Allow this process to flow, and it will flow around blocks and dams appearing to be in the way of your flowing self


    16. The blocks and dams are simply part of your suppression


    17. Dams and their corresponding reservoirs generate hydroelectric power, provide water for drinking and for irrigation of land


    18. Various species of fish and mammals have become extinct or endangered when dams have been constructed


    19. Benjamin Fong Chao discovered that large dams effect the rotation of the earth


    20. At present there are about 40,000 dams across rivers that manipulate circulation systems

    21. What about working at a nuclear power plant, chemical plant, huge factory that prepares meat for our consumption or in a coal mine? Don’t forget those who built the dams, subways or tunnels – through the mountains or under the rivers? Those who worked on the Underground Railroad or were part of the Civil Rights Movement risked their lives for a great cause, no matter what the color of their skin was


    22. hardly open my mouth to speak without feeling as though the sea burst its dams


    23. The dams were repaired within a few months and water and power supplies were only marginally affected


    24. The report stated, “That the dams were not considered a prime objective as the effects were unlikely to be substantial”


    25. “I’m sure there’s a swift current when they open both dams at the same time


    26. Viruses and computer programmes have already been developed that can turn off a nation’s electricity, steal its foreign currency, open the sluice gates of dams and so on, all from thousands of miles away


    27. And, with five dams stocked with either bass or trout, as well as outstanding sporting facilities and cultural activities, this enduring resort provides a balance between recreation for sports enthusiasts and tranquillity for those seeking relaxation'


    28. In a way, the moulvi-mullah combine erects the Muslim dams that protect the faith from being inundated by un-Islamic currents, or so it seems, what with the masses that share alike the poverty of life as well as passion for the faith are incapable to sniff beyond their Islamic noses


    29. would force water through the fractures, eroding the dam"s integrity within minutes


    30. then pointed at one of the large wheel-type valves you see that open dams on TV to help with floods

    31. The shortest and roundest of the men turns out to be an engineer, who is there to explain absolutely everything there is to know about dams


    32. Build up any accumulation of wealth, build up any higher level of greed by the majority of civilized humans…: and not all the dykes, levees and artificial dams of lower levels of greed can prevent it from bursting your artificial rules and regulations to cause havoc and destruction


    33. In the course of centuries, the Egyptians learnt how to control and distribute the flow of water by dams and irrigation ditches and it was the need of having the machinery to control the yearly flood of the river under one central authority, which brought about this unity


    34. The Botanical gardens, the Zoo, the Barrages which were the first large dams of the Nile built by Mohammed Ali, the tombs and step


    35. For the past month, those alternate channels had been partially blocked off and the sides of the dams had been raised to accommodate the extra build up in water


    36. The sound of the horns would soon be reaching those gathered at the dams


    37. The walls of the original dams, already intentionally weakened, would collapse as the remaining key stones were pulled free and the force of the onrushing water would do the rest


    38. The water continued to mount in the city as more water surged down the old channels fed from the broken gaps in the dams upriver


    39. There have been requests for a simple one and three dams


    40. Roosevelt commenced before the Board at Tennessee Valley the development of many dams

    41. Later on, these dams were used to raise bass fish of a myriad of kinds


    42. Thanks to these dams or else there would not have been a fishing spot for the early enthusiasts


    43. The largemouth bass were frequently stocked in the artificial ponds and lakes as supported by the dams that supplied the water for the sustenance of the trains steam engines whereas the smallmouth bass were commonly released into the rivers from the different states in New England that connected all the way bound for California


    44. over the centuries had constructed intricate and delicate dams, and valleys walled with polished silica, to catch the slow sunlight and sort of store it


    45. This clause also allows Congress to set aside national parks and care for them, as well as build bridges, dams, and other projects to improve the quality of life of all American citizens


    46. Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none But we had spared


    47. Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks on


    48. the coffer dams had been drained


    49. Godwyn said cautiously: “You have yet to empty the water out of the coffer dams


    50. If he was to begin laying stones as soon as they arrived from the quarry, he had to empty the coffer dams in two days instead of two weeks
























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