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The Britisher was pouring water down my throat from his flask, while the German was endeavoring to staunch my wound with an antiseptic preparation served out to them by their medical corps.
The whole body came like water down a chute, but one part of the front wall spilled out ahead and then another, and then the top, overtaking the rest, toppled crashing to the bottom.
A rush of muddy water down the canyon sent pursued and pursuer slipping and sliding and climbing for safety high up on the brush-covered, torrent-swept hillside.
And there were mystical lights on the water down there, flitting about with the movement of the stream as ghosts might flit.
We stuck it a short time longer, then one by one dived into the water and out into the air, shooting out of our mud hovel to the surface like snakes when you pour water down their holes.
We have now advanced over very heavy ground to the late Boer position, halted, and ridden some way to water down a precipitous slope, into a long, rocky hollow.
Now, it may be taken as axiomatic that in those early days the value of a piece of timber depended upon its accessibility to flowing water down which logs might be driven.
He went through the official correspondence, shoved it in his pocket, put on coat and boots and splashed through the water down the road to the Commanding Officer's bungalow.
The hillsides took up the sound, and flung it from one to another in great reverberations, while the pines, quivering in all their sprays, shook drops of water down.
It is compared to the rushing of waters down a cataract, as the roaring of the sea, or the rolling of thunder in the heavens.
Somewhere above, a mighty glacier, under the pent pressure of a subterranean reservoir, had burst asunder and hurled a hundred thousand tons of ice and water down the rocky gorge.
Well, I just wish you could have seen those two dogs, after they had poured pail after pail of water down the hole, and no rabbit came floating up.
My idea is to let them come alongside; then I will heave that cask of water down into the boat, and there will be an end of it.
His shoulders hunched involuntarily as he strode along, for his imagination pictured the rock above them giving away to dump tons of the oily river water down to engulf them.
He lay stunned for a space, then twisted himself over, and mumbled through swollen, bleeding lips: "Is that really water down there?"
As a last resort, when it was found that the repaired pumps could not keep the water down in the hold, so big was the leak, the signal of distress had been hoisted.
Usually, good alfalfa soils have sufficient drainage naturally, the subsoil being sufficiently open to admit of the percolation of water down into the subsoil with sufficient quickness.
The heron as it flies slowly towards the source of a river is said to be going up the river to bring the water down, in other words, this flight is a sign of coming rain.
At the top he had the good fortune to stumble on a trail that was evidently used by Indians or other dwellers in the wilderness, probably by men portaging the length of bad water down the river.
What does he mean by coming rampaging out south with a hole in the bottom of his brig and the pumps going straight on to keep the water down?
Directly after, I had raised my can and was carefully trickling the water down through one of the barrels with such good effect that the explosive grains were either saturated or borne away.
The Indian chief, taking upon himself the office of doctor, poured some water down their throats, and then gave them a small quantity of food.
They stopped the effusion of blood with bandages torn from their linen, and poured some water down her throat; it was now dark, and it was not possible to proceed any further that night.
I gave this chamber the right degree of heat and moisture to sprout the seed by pouring a little water down the side of the jar until it penetrated the chamber, and then setting it near the fire.
One forenoon during this past year, she had entered her cottage, carrying a pitcher of water down from the well in her garden.
William Rufus looked down from the balcony and saw him, and by way, perhaps, of quenching his anger, poured some water down upon him.
Bruise all, and boil in one quart of water down to half a pint; strain, add four ounces white sugar, dissolve by melting, then add half as much good brandy as there is of the liquid.
The course of the stream being more circuitous than the one we took across country, we beat the water down to the ranch; but only by a few seconds.
Then he removed the gag from the sufferer's mouth, and poured a glass of water down his throat, which temporarily assuaged his agony.
He stood now looking up the white water down which they had come, and at the rough hillside beyond where the old portage had lain in earlier days.
Then would follow a splash of water down the slope from the central supporting pole of that flimsy roof, dashing off at the scalloped edges upon the surrounding ground.
The Plimsoll mark was a series of measurements in feet, running from the maximum depth at which the ship should lie in the water down toward the keel.
Luckily it was nearly spent, but as it was it knocked me down, and it was some time before I could recover my breath, and that not until my comrades had poured some rum and water down my throat.
Presently he moved on again toward the cataract which had dwindled in the heat of the day to a mere trickle of hot water down to the pool in the gorge more than half a mile below.
He caught up the big water pitcher from the holder on the wall where it had miraculously escaped the fight, gulped deeply from it, and splattered water down his face and chest.
Spring thaw brought the waters down from the mountains in turbulent floods, and the precipices narrowed on each side till the current became a foaming cascade.
Over them the light came pouring like water down a cataract, filling the broad space below as if it had been all out of doors.
We slow down to pass through the rock-hewn gate that once was the Roman aqueduct bringing water down from mountain springs to the town.
We put in pumps and kept the water down whilst he went a little deeper, but the rush of water was such that we had to desist going lower.
The bottom falls out of your explanation, for there is a perpetual gush of water down these rock walls from unfailing mountain springs.
The program of these men is almost without exception that of Kropotkin, which they water down and popularize in numerous newspaper articles and pamphlets.
I have easily driven piles in fine sand by having two small pipes, one each back and front, reaching a few inches below the point of the pile, and sending water down them under pressure, and by keeping the pipes on the move so that they can't be gripped.
Added to this misery, the eating of molded corn and drinking of brackish water downed nearly all, and killed half of the colonists before the summer had passed.
And when the army got to its first French camps, the welcome sight its eyes first fell upon was that of already arrived marines carrying water down the hill.
Although the use of these articles effectually terminated any hopes of balloon experiments, it enabled them to get the water down sufficiently to permit of repairs being effected.
By the shape of the hole people discover the residence, and, when they wish to destroy the inmate, they pour some water down, to see if the scorpion is at home.
The atmosphere was stifling, and in order to enable the men at the bottom to stand the heat, their comrades kept pouring water down upon their heads and bodies.
It then occurred to the boys that it would be capital fun to pour hot water down the holes, and to kill the cobras with sticks as they emerged from them.
The way it is managed is to pump a quantity of water down the main arteries of the animal immediately after it is killed until the whole animal is saturated with it.
Probably the northern and north-eastern region, within the monsoon area, contains relatively fresh water down to very considerable depths.
The fireman was already on the tender, ready to slew over the pipe that would bring a cataract of water down into the reservoir.
She had recovered to a certain extent, and was able to stagger on again, but she was a living wreck, all splintered and patched, and the difficulty of keeping the water down was greater than before.
It is a desert simply for a lack of water, and when men build reservoirs up in the mountains and bring water down in irrigating ditches that desert literally blossoms like a rose.
Then Hans, grasping the hose, bounced to his feet, standing upright in the middle of the bed, and poured the stream of cold water down upon that struggling, squirming mass in the corner.
After she had put the water down on a table in a corner, she noiselessly locked the door leading into the library, then the door leading into the passage.
There was a splash of water down below, and he had in mind to bathe in some sequestered pool and wash away the heat and trouble of the times.
The pump or injector must be kept at work, however, since as you have let the water down low, you must not let it fall any lower, or you are likely to have trouble.
It is a tepid devotion to it which does not strongly recoil from lives that water down its precepts and try to walk on both sides of the way at once.
At the beginning of things I sat outside my tent in the early hours of the morning while a stalwart warrior poured buckets of cold water down my spine.
From this basin was laid a one and a quarter-inch iron pipe which carried the water down the glen a distance of about sixty feet to a hydraulic ram.
They put their ponies to the gallop and scampered over the soaking ground as another crash of thunder brought the water down in sheets.
Soon after, when he was in the castle court, his two brothers, William and Henry, grew riotous, and poured water down from the upper windows on him and his friends.
The water is then gathered up behind a sluice, and a native climbing up by the rail and ropes we saw, opens it and lets the water down with a rush, which generally fills the first three or four tanks.
By nature, while nothing vicious, I was as lawless as a savage; and being resentful of boundaries and as set for liberty as water down hill, I needed her influence to hold me in some quiet order.
Nothing more was needed to make it accessible than the construction of a small aqueduct to bring the water down to the beach.
Here the river is narrower, and an island in the middle divides it into two channels, along each of which rolls a tremendous flood of water down an incline formed by submerged rocks.
My dear, if I hadn't jumped out on the other side of the bed, and poured a jug of cold water down his back, I believe he would have strangled me.
The chemical activity which accomplished this erosion was caused by the seeping of rain water down through later accumulations of sediment on top of the layer of limestone.
It was like living on the edge of a volcano, taking the precaution of throwing a pail or two of water down every day or two.
Notwithstanding the high temperature, Adrian felt something queerly like a trickle of iced water down the length of his spine.
A separate outlet, fitted with a floating arm, may be provided for drawing off the top water down to the level of the top of the weir wall.
By its power of suction he can pour volumes of water down his throat, or cool himself by spurting it over his coat of mail.
With great care and patience Bruce contrived to coax a quantity of the hideous mixture of mustard and water down the unconscious man's throat.
The voice in the darkness ran out, Lanyard's hand was freed, a long pause was filled with the throbbing of the engines, the hiss and suck of water down the side, the mellow calling of the ship's bell.
"I spilled the water down your neck only once," objected Lucy indignantly; "you know we got along beautifully last time."
Experience has shown that there in great advantage in terracing the face of a hill before planting it, both as preventing the wash of the earth by checking the flow of water down its slope, and as presenting a surface favorable for irrigation, as well as for manuring and cultivating the tree.
When he "felt funny," he would stealthily pour a glass of water down the nearest child's back and then sit and chuckle over the havoc he had wrought.
He had less than two inches to spare, at best, before the water should fill his nostrils; less than two inches of life, even if he could keep the water down to the level of his lips.
We killed time watching these struggling craft, or gazing through the crystal water down to the grassy bottom, which our keel almost scraped.
Nightfall catches the steamer still churning the dark waters down winding walls of forest, now and then stopping at a rough dock which represents some invisible town.
A low atone wall separated from the street a large corral; with a long roof on posts, a stone floor, and a rivulet of water down through it occupying the center of the compound.
Their goods were then transported overland to the Don, and were again carried by water down to their mercantile colony at its mouth.
She started a fire, and then she had to take the big zinc pail and carry some water down from the spring before she could really begin to cook anything.
All eaves spouting should be of ample size, and the rain water down pipes should be placed at frequent intervals and of suitable diameter.
It came into my mind that, as we lie high, if we had but a lake sufficiently large on the top of the hill, we could send the water down in rivulets on every side.
They both had that annoying way of appearing to mean more than they said, and of watering down their arguments to meet the requirements of your inferior intellect.