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Definition of Levees
1. levee [v] - See also: levee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levees
Literary usage of Levees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation by Emerson W. Gould (1889)
"This board was abolished in 1856, and in 1857 an act was pa=sed allowing the
letting out of contracts for building levees when there was sufficient money in ..."
2. Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ...by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"levees. Scope-Not?. [INCLUDES embankments and other works constructed by public
authority to protect lands from inundation ; nature and scope- of power to ..."
3. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"levees. History.—levees are embankments of earth thrown up to prevent overflow
from streams, or to stop the sea from inundating adjacent ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"Neither can it be attributed to the levees on any particular or limited ...
The building by the officers of the United States of lines of levees along the ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"And that lots which do not front or lie upon the river, and so are not riparian,
owe a servitude as to levees so that compensation for land taken or for ..."
6. The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink by Harry Thomas Cory, William Phipps Blake (1915)
"If the levees, present and future, are built up to the profile "L," (Fig. 34.)
we estimate that the following expenditures will be involved: Embankments to ..."
7. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"The Location of levees. This is discussed by Arthur A. Stiles, State Levee and
Drainage Commissioner of Texas, in a report issued in 1913. ..."
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