canal
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He began to imagine a colossal lighthouse sculpture, placed on a huge plinth at the canal entrance, in the form of an Egyptian peasant woman holding up a torch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
In 1869, the year the canal opened, he made a trip to Cairo to show his sketches to Isma’il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The pipe lies below surface and runs parallel to the ground, draining into the canal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
It appears the man may have entered the pipe from a canal that runs along the train tracks near Commerce and Cottage streets in Riverside, Hallgreen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
At night we go again to the other side of the canal.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Bas had planned a scenic route to the hospice, taking in Friesland's meadows and canals.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
When researchers examined the dinosaur's limb bones, they identified numerous mineralized red blood cells inside vascular canals, the tiny passages that once contained blood vessels.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Much of it flows through the Central Arizona Project, the series of canals that run from the river to the Phoenix and Tucson areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He traveled as a private citizen, rather than a politician, reveling in the region’s splendors, its ruins and estates, gardens and canals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Dimly, he remembered reading about that; in the olden days they had believed in canals on Mars.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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The warmth at his heart annulled whatever of chill stole in at the grayness of the canaled streets of the northern city after the color and glow of Porto.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Hindu temples, for the many Guyanese descended from laborers from the Indian subcontinent, dot Georgetown’s canalled streets.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2010
And he should never be blocked in: he should at most be canalled.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
The spirit of improvement throughout the United States, especially evidenced in canalling, and rail-roads, will, it is hoped, in a few years, open modes of communication, which as yet are wanting, with the markets.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
The canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Indeed, I never can believe I am at sea at all, on the Atlantic, the passages between New-York and Portsmouth being little more than so much canalling along a tow-path.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
We had a good deal of difficulty at first in our canalling, especially in meeting and passing vessels.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland
It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
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