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Updated: May 8, 2025
So long as there were great areas of unrestricted flood-plain above Vicksburg to impound the freshets and lower their crests, the levees below required no great height or strength; but the tasks of reclamation were at best arduous enough to make rapid expansion depend upon the spur of great expectations.
"And because the Koran denounces usury by Moslems, and you are a pious man and also perhaps because of the risk attached to using your name in the matter your wife Jael's name was used. Nevertheless, your seal was used at the time as a check on her. Now, at a word from me the British would impound that money, interest and all." "A murrian on them! But you spoke of being friends?"
The watershed above us is too small. He couldn't impound more than three thousand acre feet of flood waters at the utmost." "How about the whole river going to waste, down in Deep Cañon?" queried her father. "Heavens, Mr. Knowles! How would he ever get a drop of water out of that awful chasm?" exclaimed Ashton. "I looked down into it. The river is thousands of feet down.
Once, in boyhood, I kept six of those "pumpkin-seed" in a cistern, and my smile has never been the same since I lost them one of my war losses. I resolved to impound the waters of my spring in the ravine and keep fish at last without salt to my heart's content.
Their churches, with red roofs all subdued with lichen into the softest browns, rise above the cottages or farm buildings that surround them in the ideal fashion that is finally repeated at Ouistreham where locks impound the waters of the canal, and a great lighthouse stands out more conspicuously than the church tower.
'Now Lent is come, let us refrain From carnal creatures, quick or slain; Let's fast and macerate the flesh, Impound and keep it in distress.
Among the most remarkable of these ancient works is the Horra-Bera tank, the bund of which is between three and four miles in length and from 50 to 70 ft. in height, and although now in ruins would formerly impound a reservoir lake of from eight to ten miles long and three to four miles broad.
"There's another distressing angle, too," he said at last. "I don't think that there is a soul on earth who knows how to run this machine but James Holden. Steal it or impound it or take it away legally, you've got to know how it runs.
They have stacks of those things, signed in blank, in the Chief of the Court's office. If they had to wait to get one of the judges to sign an order every time they wanted to subpoena a witness or impound physical evidence, they'd never get anything done. If Ham O'Brien didn't think this up for himself, Leslie Coombes thought it up for him." "We'll use my airboat," Gerd said.
"We can impound all that money in the Bank of Egypt although I'm free to admit I wouldn't take such a seal away from a friend of mine." "Give it back, then," she answered with a bitter little laugh. "I see I'll have to be your friend." He smiled wonderfully gently. There wasn't the least offense in it, although there wasn't any credulity either.
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