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Updated: May 11, 2025
There's nothing in the nature of a trademark to be found from end to end of the place; even the iron sluice-gate at the bottom of the brick tunnel has had the makers' name chipped off, apparently with a cold chisel. So you see they were prepared for all emergencies!" "Evidently," said Dunbar, resting his chin on the palms of his hands and his elbows upon the table.
Jim, knowing the fine weather would not last, drove his men hard, since there was work he must push forward before the next flood. The new bank had reached a creek where he must build a strong sluice-gate and hold back the water by a rude coffer-dam while he dug for the foundation. He came up from the dam one afternoon and stood on the slope of the bank, looking down into the hole.
We had no difficulty, therefore, in capturing those we intended to kill, without giving alarm to the others. For this purpose we constructed a sort of penn, or bye-pool, with raised mud banks, near the edge of the lake, and a sluice-gate leading into it.
If he had but one hour longer there would be enough water for men and horses for days, twenty jars of water pouring all the time! Now and again a figure came towards the wheel, but not close enough to see that the one sluice-gate had been shut and the other opened. A half-hour passed, an hour, and then the end came.
He staked a thirty-inch butt for a fourth; and so on, until the piers, in conjunction with the small centre jam already mentioned, extended quite across the river. All this was accomplished in a very short time, and immediately below the mill, but beyond sight from the sluice-gate of the dam. "Now, boys," commanded Orde, "shove off some shore logs, and let them come down."
Or there is still another method which has been employed, and which will perhaps have a future before it in those approaching times when the coal-cellars of England shall be exhausted. Imagine on the sea-coast a large flat extent which is inundated twice every day by the tide. Let us build a stout wall round this area, and provide it with a sluice-gate.
"'And their souls do pass like singing bees, where no man may follow. These are they whom God gathereth out of the whirlwind and the desert, and bringeth home in a goodly swarm." Night drew close to the earth, and as suddenly as a sluice-gate drops and holds back a flood the storm ceased.
To go forward now meant to trample the rabbits under foot. The drive came to a standstill while the herd entered the corral. This took time, for the rabbits were by now too crowded to run. However, like an opened sluice-gate, the extending flanks of the entrance of the corral slowly engulfed the herd.
She spoke without faltering, save here and there; but even then I could see her brave spirit quelling the riot of her emotions, shutting down the sluice-gate of tears. "I knew," she said, her hand clasped in mine, "that Gabord was the only person like to be admitted to you, and so for days, living in fear lest the worst should happen, I have prepared for this chance.
His thin cotton night shirt was plastered to his sturdy little body. As she touched him Kate lifted him in her arms, and almost hugged the life from him. "You big man!" she said. "You could help Mother! Good for you!" "Is the dam gone?" he asked. "Part of it," said Kate, sliding her feet before her, as she waded toward Polly in the doorway. "Did Father shut the sluice-gate, to hear the roar?"
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