Lexicographical Neighbors of Embankers
Literary usage of Embankers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex. Drawn Up for the by Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), Great Britain (1807)
"At the head of modern embankers was the Rev. HB DUDLEY, who at Bradwell and at
Tillingham took in large tracts in a more perfect and masterly manner than ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"... to where road» are beet managed, drainers to a draining country, embankers to
Lincolnshire, ..."
3. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts, Great Britain (1848)
"... embankers. BANK OF ENGLAND. ACTUARY. SECRETARY. Four-fifths of the Profit»
divided amongst the Assured on the P^ ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1863)
"... and waiting for the earthen embankers; to fence out the tides and make more
farms. S.aie of the marsh land — the more inland portion — is fry old. ..."
5. A Yachtsman's Holidays; Or, Cruising in the West Highlands by John Inglis (1879)
"... nation which keeps its head above water by incessant draining and pumping from
behind its dykes— the greatest bankers and embankers known to history. ..."
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