They swept over the reflecting waters which were the reservoir behind the Polder Dam.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
It was the flood-control reservoir behind the Polder Dam.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
"In the mean time, if it should ever so happen that they could not succeed in letting the water out fast enough, it would, of course, accumulate, and rise in the rivers, and press against the dikes that run along the banks of it, till at last it would break through in some weak place; and then, unless the people could stop the breach, the whole Polder on that side would be gradually overflowed.
"Rollo in Holland"
Jacob Abbott