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Updated: May 1, 2025
Even in that year of grace 1645, before Acadia was diked by home-making Norman peasants or watered by their parting tears, contending forces had begun to trample it. Two feudal barons fought each other on the soil of the New World. "All things failing me" La Tour held out his wrists, and looked at them with a sharp smile. "Let D'Aulnay shake a warrant, monsieur.
Shapiro's coming down her front steps all diked out in a summer silk. I guess she goes down to have supper with her husband, since he keeps open evenings." "I don't want to say nothing; but I don't think it's so nice do you, Mrs. Lissman? the first month what her mourning for her mother is up a yellow bird of paradise as big as a fan she has to have on her hat." "Ain't it so!"
Borne on the rushing flood, they soon drifted through the inlet, glided under the rival promontory of Cape Blomedon, passed the red sandstone cliffs of Lyon's Cove, and descried the mouths of the rivers Canard and Des Habitants, where fertile marshes, diked against the tide, sustained a numerous and thriving population.
Our plan is to sell the new marsh, when we get it diked in, and with the proceeds pay off Hand's mortgage with all the arrears of interest. There ought to be something left over, too!" "But I was proposing I wanted to deed that piece of marsh to you boys!" objected Mrs. Carter, in a voice of mingled gratification and doubt.
The writer has observed this crust on such diked lands, having a thickness of an eighth of an inch. In fact, this alkali coating represents merely the extreme operation of a process which is going on in all soils, and which contributes much to their fertility.
One or two crops will pretty nearly extinguish the mortgage and three or four more will put the owner on "Easy Street." In the bottom-lands of the Sacramento River is an island that for fifty years went a-begging. Then a company with a shrewd head bought it, diked it, and drained it. Now the island has immense celery beds and the largest asparagus farm in the world.
Under present conditions these are diked off by the magnificent military organizations of Europe, which also as yet cope successfully with the barbarians within.
The silence of the Roman historians affords a strong presumption that this art was unknown to the inhabitants of the Netherlands at the time of the Roman invasion, and the elder Pliny's description of the mode of life along the coast which has now been long diked in, applies precisely to the habits of the people who live on the low islands and mainland flats lying outside of the chain of dikes, and wholly unprotected by embankments of any sort.
And I'm scared of it: I'm horrible scared of it! My God! Me! At a jane-junket! ... all the thin ones diked out with doodads where the bones come through ... stoking like sailors on shore leave ... all the fat ones grouchy about their shapes and thinking it's their souls. ..." And he broke out, in a fluttering falsetto: "'Oh, Mr. Flint, do please let us see your lovely butterflies!
Early Nova Scotia was rather a collection of scattered little settlements than a province. To Howe, in great measure, she owed her unity. The first settlements in the Acadian peninsula were made by the French, in the fertile diked lands at the head of the Bay of Fundy.
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