Besides, sometimes I think you're a bloody old dike, and fancy little Angel a bit.
Just like the older dike, the Oude Bildtdijk the Nieuwe Bildtdijk lost its function.
On a cold winter night in 1953, the Netherlands suffered a terrifying blow as old dikes and seawalls gave way during a violent storm.
Originally Statendam was the name of an old dike on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee, it has been the name of several ships owned by Holland America Line:
The creek banks here are actually the remnants of old dikes, which were constructed to separate the creek from cleared rice fields.
The old legendary dikes on Ryavallen gets a proper scratch when Ryavallen upgraded for 13 million SEK.
There once the road from Nevrast to Brithombar had passed, that now was but a green track between old turf-clad dikes.
This new land formed by deposition was above the old dikes, which is why some of Hunsingo is also known as the Groningen Hogeland (high land).