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His progress was desperately slow, the suffering it entailed was sometimes unendurable. And always he knew that the blood was draining from him with every foot of ground he covered. But ever that maddening fountain lured him on... The night had stretched into untold ages. He wondered if in his frequent spells of unconsciousness he had somehow missed many days.
If ever I have a house of my own, I mean to paste in great letters over the doors and windows, 'Laughing and talking freely allowed! This is my birthday, and I think I might stay at home. Mother, don't forget to have the ends of my sash fringed, and the tops of my gloves trimmed." Draining her small china cup, she sprang up from the table, but paused beside Beulah.
It only remains then to send hither, if you shall think proper, a surveyor or an architect, in order to examine whether the lake lies above the level of the sea; the engineers of this province being of opinion that the former is higher by forty cubits,44 I find there is in the neighbourhood of this place a large canal, which was cut by a king of this country; but as it is left unfinished, it is nncertain whether it was for the purpose of draining the adjacent fields, or making a communication between the lake and the river.
The words were these: MYSELF: This land wanted draining, didn't it? THE OTHER MAN: Ah! MYSELF: It seems to be pretty well drained now. THE OTHER MAN: Ugh! MYSELF: I mean it seems dry enough. THE OTHER MAN: It was drownded only last winter. MYSELF: It looks to be good land. THE OTHER MAN: It's lousy land; it's worth nowt.
All that he looked to was the draining away of our wealth by cutting off our exports, and by allowing imports to enter our harbours much as usual. As long as he prevented us selling our produce, he heeded little how much we bought from his States: in fact, the more we bought, the sooner we should be bankrupt such was his notion. It is strange that he never sought to cut off our corn-supplies.
"Come right along, Gord; there's some draining you ought to see to. It's a nice drive, anyways." Gordon took the reins, slapping them on the rough, sturdy back of the horse, and they started up the precarious track to the road. General Jackson's head hung panting, wild-eyed, from the side of the vehicle. It was late when they returned from the farm. Gordon left the buggy at the Courthouse.
Not even the Bridge Farmer with all his rage. Why should man torment himself with thoughts of the future? The past is worth something, too, and especially such a jolly one as he had had in the secret tap-room of the Star Brewery, where he had sat with his boon-companions and had gradually mastered the art of draining a glass of beer at a draught.
My poor father insists upon my listening to all he has to say; since my brother left he has had nobody else to listen to him; and to-night he was particularly tedious on his usual topics draining, and tenant-farmers, and the village people. I must take daddy to London; he gets so narrow always staying here. 'And what did you say to it all?
Moreover, you sometimes, or rather generally, find that surface water draining off moorland districts, and passing over ochre beds, contains iron, and on its way deposits on the beds of the streamlets conveying it, and on the stones, red or brown oxide of iron. All water of this kind ought to be avoided in dyeing and similar operations.
For the last eighteen miles we had seen no quartz, which, however, might have veined the underground-rock. The sole of the Sirr now appeared spread with snow, streaked and patched with thin white paint; the stones were mostly water-rolled, the discharge of valleys draining from afar.
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