In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a living ; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass one should concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of rebirth. The Kama Sutra acknowledges that the senses can be dangerous: ' Just as a horse in full gallop, blinded by the energy of his own speed, pays no attention to any post or hole or ditch on the path, so two lovers, blinded by passion, in the friction of sexual battle, are caught up in their fierce energy and pay no attention to danger '( 2. 7. 33 ).

As he watches, the Black Knight defeats the Green, throwing his sword straight through the eye slot of the Green Knight's helm ( during Arthur's battle with the Black Knight, the Green Knight's body can be seen in a ditch beside the area ).

Monmouth fled from the field of battle, but was captured in a ditch on 8 July ( either at Ringwood in the New Forest, or at Horton in Dorset ).

After fighting for more than ten rounds, Zhao Yun feared that prolonging the battle might hurt Liu Bei's son, so he broke off the contest and fled, but his horse fell into a ditch.

His troops excavated a defensive ditch in a field on the opposite side of the River Teme from Ludlow, near the bridge which gave the battle its name.

He defeated the Piedmontese, at the battle of Avigliana where he charged across a ditch at the head of the gendarmes of the King, captured Prince Doria, the hostile general with his own hand, and fought like a common soldier until the enemy was completely driven from the field.

Returning from a mission with battle damage, he is forced to ditch into the sea but is rescued by a helicopter crewed by Chief Mike Forney ( Mickey Rooney ) and Aircrewman Nestor Gamidge ( Earl Holliman ).

His body was found two days after the battle in a watery ditch, punctured by pikes, his limbs hacked apart by halberds and swords.

A monument was later erected at the site in Patparganj, marked out by a surrounding ditch, commemorating Cornet Sanguine and British soldiers who fell during the battle.

He is most cowardly and quick to ditch a battle before it's even over.

Rhys " raised a ditch to give battle ", according to Brut y Tywysogion, or the ' Chronicles of the Princes '.

A trench is a long narrow ditch.

* A ditch, a water filled drainage trench

Graben is German for ditch or trench.

The Jocks then heaved me up and I jumped into a ditch – an old trench filled with liquid mud – which took me some time to get out of.

A French drain or weeping tile ( also blind drain, rubble drain, rock drain, drain tile, perimeter drain, land drain or French ditch ) is a trench covered with gravel or rock or containing a perforated pipe that redirects surface and groundwater away from an area.

The term, which means " ditch " or " trench " in Latin, is not a geological term as such but a descriptor term used by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) and the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for topographic features whose geology or geomorphology is uncertain due to lack of data or knowledge of the exact processes that formed them.

The ditch was created by digging a series of funnel-shaped shafts, each 10 metres deep, which were so closely positioned as to create a continuous trench.

Excavation of the Avenue, the ditch ( Heelstone Ditch ) around the Heelstone, and the trench ( Arc Trench ) leading up to Heelstone was also undertaken.

Each trench is called a bolgia ( Italian for " pouch " or " ditch ").

Trench rescue involves shoring up the sides of a trench, and digging a trapped worker out of a collapsed ditch.

It also may be used to mean a ditch, one side of which is vertical and faced with stone, the other face sloped and turfed, making the trench, in effect, a retaining wall, sometimes known as a " deer leap ".

Abbo of Fleury, writing in the late 10th century, described East Anglia as " fortified in the front with a bank or rampier like unto a huge wall, and with a trench or ditch below in the ground ".

Science is mocked for wishing to know nothing of Nothing, in a last ditch effort to save the gods at the expense of men.

A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).

Similarly if the jack is knocked into the ditch it is still alive unless it is out of bounds to the side resulting in a " dead " end which is replayed, though according to international rules the jack is " respotted " to the centre of the rink and the end is continued.

The canal is nicknamed the " divorce ditch.

As Lessing says it: " That, then, is the ugly great ditch which I cannot cross, however often and however earnestly I have tried to make that leap.

The site was originally enclosed by a curvilinear bank and ditch, which is still visible in the south west corner.

Surrounding the mound, at a distance of to is a ditch up to wide.

It is simply the drainage ditch of districts which are extensively overflowed in the rainy season.

It is practically only a drainage ditch for the half-submerged, lake-flooded district it traverses.

As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian usage, and Stonehenge is not truly a henge site as its bank is inside its ditch.

This first stage is dated to around 3100 BC, after which the ditch began to silt up naturally.

According to Roman mythology, when Romulus and Remus founded Rome, they did so on the Palatine Hill according to Etruscan ritual ; that is, they began with a pomerium or sacred ditch.

If no sturdy shelter is nearby, getting low in a ditch is the next best option.

In places, it is up to wide ( including its flanking ditch ) and high.

Typically, concrete and specially rolled HDPE plastic are the materials used to create the barrier, which is placed in a 60 – to 90-cm-deep ditch around the planting, and angled out at the top to direct the rhizomes to the surface.

Where a fence or hedge has an adjacent ditch, the ditch is normally in the same ownership as the hedge or fence, with the ownership boundary being the edge of the ditch furthest from the fence or hedge.

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You want to ditch school, but little do you know that your simple mission will run you through an hilariously outrageous set of parallel adventures.

The earthworks consist of a relatively simple oval bank of timber and earth fronted by a ditch, with opposing causewayed entrances on the east and west sides.

The stakes were higher too and in front of the ditch while on several parts of the limes, instead of stakes there was a simple stone wall.

The most important structure in Nesvizh is the Corpus Christi Church ( picture ) ( 1587 to 1603 ), connected with the castle by a dam over a ditch and containing coffins of 72 members of the Radziwill family, each interred in a simple coffin made of birch and marked with Trąby Coat of Arms.