water-ditch

And near the farther mouth of the water-ditch, where the stone mole had its second gap, the ocean swept the lost battalions into the river, to vanish forever.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The stone breakwater ran between the river and the plantation; its only gaps occurred where the "horseshoe" ends of the water-ditch passed into the river.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Along a front that moved forward as uniformly as a straight line, the ants drew nearer and nearer to the water-ditch.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Even Charley Chu, now that he was leaving the gold fields forever, regarded the water-ditch with affection.

Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California Angelo Hall

Robert Palmer's diggings on Fillmore Hill are still plainly seen from the stage road on the other side of the cañon of the Middle Yuba; but he who has the hardihood to cross the cañon will find the mine worked out, the water-ditch dry, and the old man's house pulled down.

Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California Angelo Hall

When on a shooting trip far up the River Han I saw a large buffalo with four boys on his back, grazing by the side of a water-ditch, which lay between him and a steep bank some ten feet high.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

We had also a mile of front to cover, with three weak battalions and a difficult line, whilst the four French battalions had been allotted altogether only half a mile of excellent natural trenches behind the Canal, or rather behind a broad water-ditch which ran into the Canal.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 Edward Gleichen 1900

Had she the courage to make difficulties -- to put a water-ditch across his path?

Sir George Tressady — Volume I Humphry Ward 1885

I followed the water-ditch around every projection of the mountain, still ascending higher amid the same wild scenery, till at length I reached the Oderteich, a great dam, in a kind of valley formed by some mountain peaks on the side of the Brocken.

Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851

Saying which he bounded down from the box, sprang over the water-ditch, and rushed on towards the spot occupied by the combatants.

The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mayne Reid 1850