In some sequestered nook, Embanked around, Sods for its walls and straw in burdens bound; Dried fuel hoarded is his richest store, And circling smoke obscures his little door; Whence creeping forth to duty's call he yields, And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The town is made up of two or three principal boulevards, very broad, and intersecting one another at right angles, with a canal in their centres, these waterways being Embanked by substantial granite borders, which are interspersed at convenient distances with granite steps connecting the street with the water.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The cost in some instances was very great; for, in constructing the present beautiful carriage drive from Sheil Brude to Dorlin House, hundreds of yards of solid rock had to be blasted; part of the river Sheil had to be Embanked; huge boulders between the cliffs and the sea-shore had to be cleared away, while a considerable line of breastwork had to be erected as a protection against the waves of the Atlantic, which, in a southwest gale, beat with great fury against the coast.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby