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  • And then there were the Indians, who covered the levee on summer days selling herbs and crafted wares.†   (source)
  • I take her out on the levee and run to get rid of all my frustration with not being able to have a job that will allow me to afford rent.†   (source)
  • They thought I was one of them who got drowned when the levee broke, but I done broke the chain and gone.†   (source)
  • They saw each other socially at dinners and presidential levees, and on more than one occasion, Jefferson rode out to Richmond Hill.†   (source)
  • And then I plans to stop by the Morgans' sugar cane field near the levee.†   (source)
  • Like water through a breaking levee, the memories flooded his mind.†   (source)
  • But Oswald is pleased with the purchase and gets in the habit of riding the bus to a dry riverbed for target practice against the levee.†   (source)
  • To control the water depth on our land, I built a low levee across the area.†   (source)
  • The people said when the levee first broke ... they could hear that water coming for miles.†   (source)
  • Then as if it had swelled and broken over a daily levee, tenderness tore and spun through her sagging body.†   (source)
  • Far up the street the levee seemed to have broken.†   (source)
  • Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good. When the levee breaks, mama you got to move.   (source)
  • Each new levee increases the need for levees elsewhere on the river.
  • In about 100 years, the city will need higher levees because of global warming.
  • The only thing that concerned him was the levees.†   (source)
  • The levee broke, and the Lower Nine flooded.†   (source)
  • He thought of them—the houses near the lake and the houses near the levees.†   (source)
  • But some people said that the levees weren't strong enough for a really big storm.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Zeitoun knew that the levees had been overtopped or compromised.†   (source)
  • If the levees were breached, he knew the battle would be lost.†   (source)
  • The back road to the levee was winding and dusty.†   (source)
  • I could smell and hear humans on the paths of the square, moving about the market, along the levee.†   (source)
  • He did away with presidential levees, something Adams had wanted to do but felt obliged to continue.†   (source)
  • But he lay back on the steep levee then, and for a long time he appeared to be looking at the stars.†   (source)
  • On this side of the river, the road ran beneath the brow of the levee and followed it.†   (source)
  • But one day the water will break down his spillways just like it broke through the levee.†   (source)
  • But instead of him listening-no, he built another levee.†   (source)
  • The city's stern Protestant upper class saw him as a civic satyr whose tolerance of prostitution, gambling and alcohol had allowed the city's vice districts, most notably the Levee—home of the infamous bartender and robber Mickey Finn—to swell to new heights of depravity.†   (source)
  • "The levee, Roddy," she said to Dad.†   (source)
  • The levee broke?†   (source)
  • Meteorologists were predicting furious winds, ten-foot storm surges, possibilities of levee breaches, flooding everywhere along the coast.†   (source)
  • In his neighborhood, miles from the closest levee, the water had risen slowly enough that he knew it was unlikely that anyone had died in the flood.†   (source)
  • Levee breaches could happen, they said.†   (source)
  • He didn't know where the levees had failed, but he knew anyone living nearby would have been quickly overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • He recalled the worst of the predictions before the storm: if the levees broke, there would be ten, fifteen feet of water in some places.†   (source)
  • And they lived nowhere near any levees, so they wouldn't get any of the flash flooding that might hit some of the other neighborhoods.†   (source)
  • He would be safe in their house on Dart Street, he figured, far from any levees, with two stories, plenty of tools, and food.†   (source)
  • It was East New Orleans, or the Lower Ninth, with its one-story houses so close to the levees, that were in the gravest danger.†   (source)
  • Though every resident of New Orleans imagines great floods, knows that such a thing is possible in a city surrounded by water and ill-conceived levees, the sight, in the light of day, was beyond anything he had imagined.†   (source)
  • Levees broke?†   (source)
  • But he spent hours on the firing range back in his Marine Corps days, and these last few weeks, he has been diligently working on his shot down in the dry bed of the Trinity River, using the levee walls as a backstop.†   (source)
  • I marked the highest level the water reached on trees, which allowed me to determine how high and long to make the levee.†   (source)
  • The ladies of Foreign Ministers and the Ministers, with our own secretaries and ladies have visited me today, and add to them, the whole levee today of Senate and House.†   (source)
  • "Ain't figure you to be goin' catfishing with that knife, gal. Ain't you all taking the long way to the levee, though?"†   (source)
  • As Abigail observed in mid-August, not a public event or levee took place "without being attended by many persons who never before came and never were they so full, and so crowded as they have been this season."†   (source)
  • The long levee was crowded, and parties lasted late in the lavish staterooms, the decks rumbling with passengers and guests.†   (source)
  • But even after they lost the sharecropping contract and Elvira left him for a man who farmed near the levee and Ben went north and took a job on Brewster, he still drank—long after he could remember why.†   (source)
  • They carried on correspondence, drew up reports, and, as obliged, appeared each Tuesday at the King's levee at Versailles, where afterward they dined with the Comte de Vergennes and the rest of the diplomatic corps.†   (source)
  • We were walking that night uptown where the city gives way to the Audubon Park and the levee is a deserted, grassy slope that descends to a muddy beach heaped here and there with driftwood, going out to the lapping waves of the river.†   (source)
  • "When Adams presented Jefferson at the King's levee at St. James's on March i 5, George III could not have been "more ungracious" in his "notice of Mr. Adams and myself," according to an account later provided by Jefferson.†   (source)
  • A few people waved from the pier and the grassy hump of the levee as the great ship began first to shiver, then to jerk violently to one side, and then to slide out in one great majestic motion into the current of the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • One May afternoon crowds lined Market Street as a thousand young men of Philadelphia marched two-by-two to the President's House, wearing in their hats, as a sign of their support, black cockades like those worn by Washington's troops in the Revolution, Adams received a delegation of them in the Levee Room wearing a dress uniform and sword.†   (source)
  • …to crowd the narrow streets on the way to the old French Opera House and the Theatre d'Orleans and the St. Louis Cathedral, from whose open doors came the chants of High Mass over the crowds of the Place d'Armes on Sundays, over the noise and bickering of the French Market, over the silent, ghostly drift of the ships along the raised waters of the Mississippi, which flowed against the levee above the ground of New Orleans itself, so that the ships appeared to float against the sky.†   (source)
  • Her "station" at levees, she explained to Mary, was to the right of Mrs. Washington— though this Mary must keep to herself, "as all distinction you know is unpopular."†   (source)
  • My sister laughed at the transformation in me when we would meet at night and I would take her from our flat out the narrow wooden streets to walk along the tree-lined levee in the moonlight, savoring the orange blossoms and the caressing warmth, talking for hours of her most secret thoughts and dreams, those little fantasies she dared to tell no one and would even whisper to me when we sat in the dim lit parlor entirely alone.†   (source)
  • I hate levees and drawing rooms.†   (source)
  • Having attended several of the President's levees, Abigail could attest that the "court" of the Washingtons was as crowded, the company as brilliantly dressed as at St. James's, with the difference that here she thoroughly enjoyed herself.†   (source)
  • …swell were things carried by the river: grandfather clocks chiming, kitchen clocks ticking, caged hens screaming, babies wailing; and swimming among the thickened eddies were mules and cats, and sudden excursions of burst mattress springs floating by, insane hair stuffing sticking out, and boxes and crates and pictures of dark grandfathers in oak frames-- the river flowing it on while the men sat like nervous hounds on the hardware porch, too late to mend the levee, their hands empty.†   (source)
  • The cars and trucks, then the foot passengers and the alligator, waddling like a child to school, all disembarked and wound up the weed-sprung levee.†   (source)
  • Like a misplaced sunrise, the light of the river flowed up; they were mounting the levee on a little shell road.†   (source)
  • That little Frenchman was long dead when the water broke his levee in '27, and these that built the spillways will be long dead, too, but the water will never die.†   (source)
  • I don't know when the first levee was built-probably in slavery time; but from what I heard from the old people the water destroyed the levee soon as it was put there.†   (source)
  • Now skidding down the levee's flank, they were the last-minute car, the last possible car that could squeeze on.†   (source)
  • Well, they stacked sacks and stacked sacks, and every time the river got ready to break through it went right on and broke through that Frenchman's little levee like it was made of matchsticks.†   (source)
  • Over the levee wall now, like an aurora borealis, the sky of New Orleans, across the river, was flickering gently.†   (source)
  • The river and the levee were still on her side, waste and jungle and some occasional settlements on his-poor houses.†   (source)
  • No, your people plowed this earth, your people chopped down the trees, your people built the roads and built the levees.†   (source)
  • And the little levee of earth extended until it connected with the highway embankment on either end.†   (source)
  • They was setting in the wagon at the end of the levee when I caught up with them.†   (source)
  • He turned the buggy around and started back toward the levee.†   (source)
  • More mud on the levee, more willows interlaced.†   (source)
  • It was a passion to get her affairs in order before she had to retire behind doors, to have as much money as possible in case the deluge broke upon her again, to have a stout levee of cash against the rising tide of Yankee hate.†   (source)
  • …miles distant, the rural horizon, could have a liking one for the other, a mild curiosity about the other's fortunes, a regret, even, that we should be separated, and the knowledge that either of us had only to pick up the telephone and speak by the other's pillow, enjoy the intimacies of the levee, coming in, as it were, with the morning orange juice and the sun, yet be restrained from doing so by the centripetal force of our own worlds and the cold, interstellar space between them.†   (source)
  • The words rushed from his heart, incoherent, unashamed, foaming through the broken levees of pride and silence.†   (source)
  • Way off from the road a barn would stick up out of the mist like a house sticking out of the rising water when the river breaks the levee.†   (source)
  • He drove over the levee and down the long slope of cobblestones to the river's edge and the horse plunged wildly in.†   (source)
  • At Versailles or in Paris the Sun King had one nobleman to hand him his stockings, another his shirt, in his morning levee.†   (source)
  • At last, partly to hurry her off and partly out of a lover's uncontrollable curiosity, he went into the bedroom to wake her up—a proceeding which was possible in the days of the levee.†   (source)
  • It was just a tangle of yellow and the levee not less wider than a knife-back land of, with us setting in the wagon and on the horse and the mule.†   (source)
  • And once in about five years he would break out in a kind of wild, free, exuberant gaiety like a levee break streaming out to snatch the trees and brush up by the roots, and you would be the trees and brush.†   (source)
  • Littlejohn had told me that the levee through Haley bottom had done gone for two miles and that the only way to get to Jefferson would be to go around by Mottson.†   (source)
  • To me, with my roundhouse, saloon-door, and river-levee background, they were revolutionary, my gateway to the world.†   (source)
  • For days I had dreamed about a huge white boat floating on a vast body of water, but when my mother took me down to the levee on the day of leaving, I saw a tiny, dirty boat that was not at all like the boat I had imagined.†   (source)
  • It was nigh up to the levee on both sides, the earth hid except for the tongue of it we was on going out to the bridge and then down into the water, and except for knowing how the road and the bridge used to look, a fellow couldn't tell where was the river and where the land.†   (source)
  • They were claimed wholly by their environment and could imagine no other, whereas I had come from another plane of living, from the swinging doors of saloons, the railroad yard, the roundhouses, the street gangs, the river levees, an orphan home; had shifted from town to town and home to home; had mingled with grownups more than perhaps was good for me.†   (source)
  • Then he held a public levee in the parlours of the Iroquois until eight o'clock.†   (source)
  • On a fine Sunday in term time, it is quite a Levee—quite a Levee.†   (source)
  • Be at the levee tomorrow after the parade.†   (source)
  • "Well, my Mas'r was Mr. Ellis,—lived on Levee-street.†   (source)
  • He was a mason; the levee that buffeted back the rage of the Colorado in flood, the wall that turned the creek, the irrigation tunnel, the zigzag trail cut on the face of the cliff—all these attested his eye for line, his judgment of distance, his strength in toil.†   (source)
  • When he was again told to move on, he made his way to a "tough" place in the "Levee" district, where now and then he had gone with a certain rat-eyed Bohemian workingman of his acquaintance, seeking a woman.†   (source)
  • The Negroes and the "toughs" from the Levee did not want to work, and every few minutes some of them would feel obliged to retire and recuperate.†   (source)
  • This depot was within the danger line for Jurgis—in the "Levee" district, where he was known; but he went there, all the same, for he was desperate, and beginning to think of even the Bridewell as a place of refuge.†   (source)
  • One night there was given a ball, the "benefit" of "One-eyed Larry," a lame man who played the violin in one of the big "high-class" houses of prostitution on Clark Street, and was a wag and a popular character on the "Levee."†   (source)
  • They were learning to swear in voluble English; they were learning to pick up cigar stumps and smoke them, to pass hours of their time gambling with pennies and dice and cigarette cards; they were learning the location of all the houses of prostitution on the "Levee," and the names of the "madames" who kept them, and the days when they gave their state banquets, which the police captains and the big politicians all attended.†   (source)
  • Ah, you are happy that you haf a home to go in," he said, when she told him, and sat silently pulling his beard in the corner, while she held a little levee on that last evening.†   (source)
  • "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."†   (source)
  • Why, Lord Steyne cut me at the levee last year; they are beginning to find out that Pitt Crawley is some one at last.†   (source)
  • The levee was drawing to a close.†   (source)
  • When the boat touched the levee at New Orleans she bade good-by to her comrades on the Grand Mogul and moved her kit ashore.†   (source)
  • One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decres or Cretet or other, came to the master's intimate levee.†   (source)
  • For a hundred or more miles above New Orleans, the river is higher than the surrounding country, and rolls its tremendous volume between massive levees twenty feet in height.†   (source)
  • Soon after his arrival Prince Andrew, as a gentleman of the chamber, presented himself at court and at a levee.†   (source)
  • Her next surprise was to find him equally at his ease within the prison; to hear of his presenting himself among the visitors at her father's Sunday levee; to see him arm in arm with a Collegiate friend about the yard; to learn, from Fame, that he had greatly distinguished himself one evening at the social club that held its meetings in the Snuggery, by addressing a speech to the members of the institution, singing a song, and treating the company to five gallons of ale—report madly…†   (source)
  • After his levee, that is to say, giving directions about the labors of the next day, and seeing all the peasants who had business with him, Levin went back to his study and sat down to work.†   (source)
  • Toward noon he dropped in at the judge's and talked with Mrs. Pratt about the great event of the day, the levee of the distinguished foreigners at Aunt Patsy Cooper's.†   (source)
  • He had the child before his eyes, on a hundred different days when he remembered George after dinner, when he used to come in as bold as a lord and drink off his glass by his father's side, at the head of the table—on the pony at Brighton, when he cleared the hedge and kept up with the huntsman—on the day when he was presented to the Prince Regent at the levee, when all Saint James's couldn't produce a finer young fellow.†   (source)
  • The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee.†   (source)
  • "Say that there is no answer," said Countess Lidia Ivanovna, and immediately opening her blotting-book, she wrote to Alexey Alexandrovitch that she hoped to see him at one o'clock at the levee.†   (source)
  • …the St. James's assemblies, or we, who, in muddy boots, dawdle up and down Pall Mall and peep into the coaches as they drive up with the great folks in their feathers—some ladies of fashion, I say, we may have seen, about two o'clock of the forenoon of a levee day, as the laced-jacketed band of the Life Guards are blowing triumphal marches seated on those prancing music-stools, their cream-coloured chargers—who are by no means lovely and enticing objects at that early period of noon.†   (source)
  • At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his face and just nodded to him with his long head.†   (source)
  • When they rose, so many of the magnates had something to say to Mr Merdle individually that he held little levees by the sideboard, and checked them off as they went out at the door.†   (source)
  • The alliance with Prussia, Austria's treachery, Bonaparte's new triumph, tomorrow's levee and parade, and the audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Mr. Simon Legree, Tom's master, had purchased slaves at one place and another, in New Orleans, to the number of eight, and driven them, handcuffed, in couples of two and two, down to the good steamer Pirate, which lay at the levee, ready for a trip up the Red river.†   (source)
  • Yes, he had seen the Right Honourable the Earl of Bagwig, his lordship's father; he was sure he had, he had met him at—at the Levee—didn't Dob remember? and when the Diplomatist called on the party, faithful to his promise, Jos received him with such a salute and honours as were seldom accorded to the little Envoy.†   (source)
  • Consequently, it would only have been necessary for Metternich, Rumyantsev, or Talleyrand, between a levee and an evening party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: "My respected Brother, I consent to restore the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg"—and there would have been no war.†   (source)
  • They emerged from the cabins and struggled up the sharing levee to the road—men in staid, hard brown orblack, with gold watch chains and now and then a stick; young men in cheap violentblues or stripes and swaggering hats; women a little stiffly sibilant,and children in garments bought second hand of white people, who looked at Ben with the covertness of nocturnal animals: "I bet you wont go up en tech him."†   (source)
  • (Carelessly) I was just chatting this afternoon at the viceregal lodge to my old pals, sir Robert and lady Ball, astronomer royal at the levee.†   (source)
  • From the Canadian French, as we have already seen, /prairie/, /batteau/, /portage/ and /rapids/ had been borrowed during colonial days; to these French contributions /bayou/, /picayune/, /levee/, /chute/, /butte/, /crevasse/, and /lagniappe/ were now added, and probably also /shanty/ and /canuck/.†   (source)
  • He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee, And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field, And both understand him and know that his speech is right.†   (source)
  • …in the race, The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs, Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly-come immigrants cover the wharf or levee, As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the overseer views them from his saddle, The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other, The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and…†   (source)
  • …gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing, Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees, The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals; The hourly routine of your own or any man's life, the shop, yard, store, or factory, These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are,…†   (source)
  • …honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.†   (source)
  • Nor with them only, but with every kind of character, from the minister at his levee, to the bailiff in his spunging-house; from the dutchess at her drum, to the landlady behind her bar.†   (source)
  • The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox; the cunning artificer, the diligent mechanic, spring from their hard mattress; and now the bonny housemaid begins to repair the disordered drum-room, while the riotous authors of that disorder, in broken interrupted slumbers, tumble and toss, as if the hardness of down disquieted their repose.†   (source)
  • ] I used to attend the king's levee once or twice a week, and had often seen him under the barber's hand, which indeed was at first very terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an ordinary scythe.†   (source)
  • …same doctor proposed, "that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused."†   (source)
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