Crossword-Solution: EMBANK 6 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The first of these two routes was that over which the _Waggoner_ plied; it skirts the lovely shore of Thirlmere,--a lonely sheet of water, of exquisite irregularity of outline, and fringed with delicate verdure, which the Corporation of Manchester has lately bought to embank it into a reservoir.

Modern engineering skill enables them to tunnel the crest, to cut galleries in the perpendicular walls of gorges, and to embank mountain torrents against the spring inundation of the roadbed, where it drops to the valley floor.

She said, and from the fight conducted forth The impetuous Deity, whom on the side She seated of Scamander deep-embank’d.[3] And now the host of Troy to flight inclined45 Before the Grecians, and the Chiefs of Greece Each slew a warrior.

Whereupon, _we_ must also pause, to embank ourselves somewhat; and before other things, try what we can understand in this name of Frank, concerning which Gibbon tells us, in his sweetest tones of satisfied moral serenity--"The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans.

This done, in exchange for his continued supply of corn, he buys as much of his neighbours' land as he thinks he can superintend the management of; and makes the former owners securely embank and protect the ceded portion.