| 单词 | sluice |
| 例句 | Her maids sluiced the blood off her face, scrubbed the dirt from her back, washed her hair and brushed it out until it sprang back in thick auburn curls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Inside his chambers, he stripped off his sweat-stained silks and sluiced cold water over his head from the basin beside the bed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As the last sluice of lemonade slipped out of the cooler, a slick of mud poured out. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They were to be carried “to the glory of God,” and emptied, sluiced, cleaned and stowed by half past seven, when it was time to start the morning drinks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ruby’s riot of hair had gone otter-pelt sleek, still sluicing off the remnants of rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then we slosh buckets of water across the floorboards, using push brooms to sluice the resulting muck from the car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Some water splashed over the front, but not more than a few gallons, and it sluiced quickly off the sides. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The reservoirs were full, and the River Board had had to release a lot of water into the river and keep the sluice gates open. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A baker washes down the path, sluicing water into the gutter. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When it had finished its fussing, it seethed back down the New Meadows River, sluicing between the mainland and the islands. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I leave the note on the path to her tree house, check the door on the sluice that carries the water to the waterwheel to make sure it’s tightly closed, and depart. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With the tree cover stripped from the uplands, rainfall would have sluiced faster and heavier into the creeks, increasing the chance of floods and mudslides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Goose Fair was sluiced from a bowl of starry dark. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She emptied and sluiced the bedpans, swept and polished floors, made cocoa and Bovril, fetched and carried—and was delivered from introspection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Loafers sluicing, hair dripping, holding her purchases in her arms, she made it into the bedroom and shut the door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair sluiced rivers down her back and shoulders. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The early morning duties, the sluice room, the taking round of tea, the changing of dressings, and the renewed contact with all the irreparable damage did not dim this heightened perception. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The temperature dropped and the wind kept up, sluicing water over their bows. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z With no more than a brief conversation, Darwin had inserted a sluice into de Vries’s darting mind, diverting it forever. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On duty in the sluice room Briony did the sums. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The rain was falling harder now, beating the roof of the refectory like the drums of war, running down the sluices in torrents. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Then, when they had entered a large well-lit room that buzzed with metallic activity, the sluices opened and the flood of explanation poured forth again. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Sam was opening the mill sluice to start the waterwheel for Bando, now a busy father. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Rain sluiced down it all, making Thomas imagine a huge beast cresting out of the ocean. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Slithering beads of rain sluiced down my window. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Eventually Bando climbs the hill, closes the sluice gate, and comes to my outdoor kitchen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I did finish the sluice but stopped working on the wheel because Alice and I had to gather the nut crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier, Briony had seen her in the sluice room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Rusty earth sluiced round the blades of the plow. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Water sluiced out of my trouser legs as I scrambled out of the pond. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Moving quietly, she swam across the millpond to the sluice and climbed up the wall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I sluice its coldness over my face, clean off the dried blood, wet my cracked lips. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Now he has this new Anger & he spends his Days fiercely Digging & felling Trees & splicing them as Hazards to Infantry & sluicing Mud ofT his Hands &, with his Detail, building up the Bulwarks & Glacis. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She found Jaqen soaking in a tub, steam rising around him as a serving girl sluiced hot water over his head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Water sluiced out, slooshing with it a pair of enormous fish. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She slipped away to get his brandy, and stopped in the sluice to be sick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On the day she had been told off twice for running, Briony found herself sent to the sluice room for an extra turn. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thick red blood sluiced out into the sink and over her fingers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned the net inside out, dumping three sand eels into the pail and then sluicing in some water so they could breathe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Outside in front of the station the stream roars alongside the street, it rushes foaming from the sluices of the mill bridge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As they scrubbed her down with soap and sluiced warm water over her head, all she could see were the faces from the bailey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She pulled the sluice room door behind her, and tied the heavy rubber apron around her waist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In a sluice of seconds, they were dressed, back in the living room, Play pressed on the video recorder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I sluice off in my bath and then, alone in my room, unpack my schoolbag. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As soiled water sluiced down the table legs, we transferred Yakov to a slotted board attached to the pulley system overhead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He stepped forward and sluiced a spray of black tobacco juice out of the side of his mouth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They all sluice into the walking, breathing database that is Stephen Miller, the White House wordsmith and behind-the-scenes power broker whose job is to harness the thoughts and ideas of the least tamable of presidents. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z They sailed through the sluice of the Afsluitdijk and continued fishing on the North Sea, where they still fish today. How an unusual hashtag led to a personalized visit to an obscure area of the Netherlands 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Within moments of the bay window sluicing down into the yard, a grippe of partiers will spill from the front door in search of the interesting person who took such radical action. We Are Scientists present the rules ? of partying 2010-05-12T08:51:00Z Here, the city seems to press more heavily than ever at their sluice gates, which open in sudden ecstasy, to spray out these unvalued treasures. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z In "Drought," those consequences are specific: They involve the suicide of a sharecropper named Miguel, who drowns himself in a sluice channel, death by water at the very moment water has become most scarce. In Ronald Fraser's 'Drought,' outsider gets in path of village's future 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Not with a snap, but a sort of surge, like a sluice gate opening. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z After a rainstorm, one character walks through “a city sluiced out and laden with promise.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z In painting, photographs and videos we see it sluicing among islands, washing against shorelines, penetrating interiors, carrying trading ships and battleships, fishing boats and ferries. Art Review: ‘Caribbean: Crossroads of the World’ Spans 3 Museums 2012-06-14T20:33:20Z “God, we are just enthralled to the data-driven markets. Young people go into the sluice gates dutifully, like cattle to the slaughter. Then we wonder why the audience shrinks every year.” Meryl Streep on Guns, the Wage Gap and How She Picks a Role 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It might have been perspiration liquefying his hair dye, or sluicing the black polymer off his eyeglasses. Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z As readers who love the Diamond series know, the picture-perfect old British city, honeycombed with sluices, drains and sewers, offers unrivaled facilities for disposing of bodies. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Or it may be charred twice, pulled apart and tucked, still warm, into a whole-wheat roti made to order, with a final sluice of tomato and mint chutneys and a scattering of onions and cilantro. An Egg Is More Than Just an Egg at While in Kathmandu 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Then came the Industrial Revolution, crunching and sluicing away, and changing pretty much everything: social structures, urban spaces, land use, belief systems, historical topography, not to mention the chemical properties of earth, water and air. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The work drew workers and their families to the coast, and massive timber operations sent thousands of tree trunks sluicing down rivers to feed the industry. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z After sluicing through the arpeggios of Coltrane’s “Countdown” with great alacrity, he burst into an incongruous quote from “Billy Boy,” cracking up the crowd. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander proves he has all that jazz 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z At many points we can see — and often hear — the river, a vein of quenching green sluicing far below. A father-son backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon is an introduction to adventure 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z If you hear the record in the manner suggested to you, Merzbow’s music, unsentimental to the core, sluices through the elegant silences in and among the Boris tracks. Review: Boris and Merzbow Make a Joint Album, With Options 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z I got them to close all the sluice gates upstream, so only a trickle came down. How we made Deliverance 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Following a network of canals, the boatman threaded through the narrow sluice gates in bamboo dams. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z I couldn’t drink to sluice it down because I couldn’t swallow. Breathing 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z There Ms. Suzuki preps the desserts, which include shave ice sluiced with condensed milk and loaded with strawberries cooked down with sugar until Ferrari red and forbiddingly sweet. Hungry City: Brooklyn Ball Factory in East Williamsburg 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a full-scale exodus and it didn’t leave Stern Auditorium feeling decentered or lonely — it was just a sluicing of the disengaged or overwhelmed, which caused her ardent fans to react more loudly. Review: Ana Moura and Buika Negotiate Between Roots and Rules at Carnegie 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The renovation architects, ARM Architecture, settled on sluicing in small-footprint glass elevators on outside corners of each of the complex’s halls. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Marshland is born of rivers: as silt is sluiced down from the land to the sea, the tides in turn lift it back onto the land. Pip and Me: A Journey Into the World of ‘Great Expectations’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Also on the bill is the James Brandon Lewis Trio, led by an audacious young tenor saxophonist whose sound is a grimy sluice. The Jazz Trio Harriet Tubman in a ‘We Resist’ Concert 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z As the tide ebbs the water is released through a sluice, which pushes a water wheel, which turns the grinding stones. Could the UK's tides help wean us off fossil fuels? 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Over time, the Maya built canals, dams, sluices and berms to direct, store and transport water. Ancient Maya reservoirs offer lessons for today's water crises 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z We sluiced into 2022 with another La Niña winter pattern bringing more snow and rain that lasted well into spring, yet again dampening gardeners’ spirits. How to help your PNW garden weather abnormal climate highs and lows 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Since November, the gantry cranes that open and close the sluice gates have barely moved, though it was not clear if they had not been working. Internal Blast Probably Breached Ukraine Dam, Experts Say (Cautiously) 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Ukraine said that last fall, the troops occupying it detonated explosives that damaged three sluice gates, which help regulate water levels when operated properly. Ukrainian dam breach: What is happening and what’s at stake 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates. Ukraine accuses Russia of destroying major dam near Kherson, warns of ecological disaster 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The park’s main attractions are the alpine roller coaster, a climbing wall, a trampoline and a mining sluice. WA’s first alpine roller coaster opens in Leavenworth 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z That could enable a bad actor to do things like change chemical levels or open sluices to manipulate flows in water channels or dams. Cracks, hacks and attacks: The many risks facing California's aging water infrastructure 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z A combination of damaged sluice gates and high water might tear away a few gates, but would not be expected to rip apart so much of the dam, the professor said. Internal Blast Probably Breached Ukraine Dam, Experts Say (Cautiously) 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The human-made mudslides that resulted were directed through troughs known as sluices, which had grooves to catch flakes and nuggets of gold. A New Rush to Find Gold in the Sierra Nevada Foothills 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z It sells gold panning equipment like sluice boxes, plastic pans with ridges to trap gold, metal detectors and small glass vials to preserve any pickers and flakes that amateur prospectors might find. Eureka! After California’s Heavy Rains, Gold Seekers Are Giddy. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z At the mining sluice, kids can pan for up to 20 gemstones and treasures. WA’s first alpine roller coaster opens in Leavenworth 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Similar attacks have threatened other water systems, including an Iranian attack on a New York dam in 2016, in which hackers tried but failed to take control of a sluice gate. Cracks, hacks and attacks: The many risks facing California's aging water infrastructure 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The level has fallen because Russian troops who control the reservoir, and also the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and dam, have let some water out through sluice gates, he said. Ukraine fears nuclear plant could face dangerous water cooling shortage 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z “A river is really a giant sluice box,” said Barron Brandon, a former mining executive who pans for gold in his spare time and has found enough pieces to fill a finger-size glass vial. A New Rush to Find Gold in the Sierra Nevada Foothills 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z All those kettles created a phenomenal demand for electricity, and that's when the sluice gates opened on our pumped hydro plants. £100m boost for biggest UK hydro scheme in decades 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Year after year, its waters erode and sluice rock away from mountains, liberating precious metals and whisking them to lowlands, where they are deposited among sediments in riverbeds and floodplains. Illegal mining has muddied tropical rivers worldwide 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Through the flap of a makeshift tent, Jose Reyes, 50, peered into the whipping downpour as cold water pelted his leaky tarp and sluiced down the rusty bed frame he was using as ballast. As Storms Hammer California, Homeless Campers Try to Survive Outside 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Pulp sluiced in and cascaded onto the “former,” where it was flattened into a paperlike consistency. Cardboard Has Taken Over Our Lives. Where Does It Come From? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z US satellite imagery firm Maxar tweeted that "sections of the dam and sluice gates" had been destroyed. Ukraine war: Celebration in Kherson - but war 'far from over' 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z It said sections of the northern extent of the dam and sluice gates had been "deliberately destroyed". New damage to major dam near Kherson after Russian retreat -Maxar satellite 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The river sluices through a misty forest of lodgepole pines and Douglas firs, many skeletonized by wildfires, and starts into five miles of nearly continuous rapids. In Idaho, R & R means rapids and relaxation 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z A nation that cannot build an effective military when the proceeds of fuel sales are sluicing in is no threat to “rebuild” when its economy is puny. Opinion | Why a negotiated peace with Putin is the safest way out 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z “As Russian commanders become increasingly concerned about their operational setbacks, they are probably attempting to strike the sluice gates of dams, in order to flood Ukrainian military crossing points.” Russians strike Ukraine as Kremlin-staged votes continue 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Russian commanders may be attempting to strike sluice gates of the dams in order to flood Ukrainian military crossing points, the ministry said in its bulletin released on Twitter. UK says Russia struck dam this week on Siverskyi Donets river 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Edgerton drove there and discovered that someone had wrenched open the dam’s two 10-foot sluice gates, sending the precious water down the Republican River. Nebraska authorities baffled by missing canal water mystery 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Explain the conversion of energy that takes place when the sluice of a dam is opened. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z About this “sharp, sleazy sluice of Southern Gothic horror,” the Guardian writes that it has “a stubborn, almost literary feel for character that accumulates a baleful momentum by the time the finale hits.” New movies to stream this week: ‘Prey’ and more 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z It is thought that water was once carried through this sluice in terra-cotta pipes. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z How I began to see each day: the sluice of wings. Poem: Lessons on Lessening 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The trunk was worn from wear, and its fine end wobbled as he hauled the draggings back on board, which his companion then sluiced in a large sieve. Taking the scenic route to Aveiro, on Portugal’s Atlantic coast 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Potential energy stored in the water held by the dam will convert to kinetic energy when it falls through the opening of the sluice. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z They’re out there on even the coldest days, dipping a beak to drink, bending low to sluice the water over their feathers. Perspective | We wanted the calming sound of running water. It turns out birds like it, too. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z “Get Back” was just one in a steady sluice of music documentaries released this year. Perspective | 20 ways of thinking about nostalgia from a year of backward listening 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Thawing permafrost is undermining Indigenous villages, summer sea ice is vanishing, and water is sluicing off Greenland’s ice sheet in record amounts. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z To keep the turtle hydrated, the care team administered a mix of fluids including electrolytes, using a large syringe fitted to a tube and needle to sluice it under the turtle’s skin. Shi Shi the sea turtle makes steady improvement after rescue from Washington beach 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Kinetic energy stored in the water held by the dam will convert to potential energy when it falls through the opening of the sluice. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z “It’ll come sooner,” he said, standing between the computers controlling the sluice gates and an old cathode ray tube TV set. In Vienna, a visionary example of dealing with urban floods 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z He was also found guilty of fishing with net within 10m below a tidal sluice, fishing unaided by tying his net to the sluice gates and using a light. Man fined £11k for illegally fishing baby eels in Gloucestershire 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z You’ll immediately cross Pipers Creek at the point where it turns from river to estuary, roughly demarcated by two wooden beams that form a narrow sluice where salmon wiggle their way upstream. Seattle’s Carkeek Park is one of the best places to watch the salmon complete their journey home to spawn 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Rather than sluicing rain away, as would happen on a concrete or asphalt sidewalk, the permeable gravel allows water to seep down. Perspective | The Audubon Naturalist Society is flush with a new donation: Composting toilets 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Potential energy stored in the water held by the dam will convert to electrical energy, when it falls through the opening of the sluice. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z They lifted the sluice gates of the New Danube and channeled some of the floodwater into this man-made side channel, allowing the river’s excess water, debris and tree branches to rush in. In Vienna, a visionary example of dealing with urban floods 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z As the cloudburst raged, water sluiced down the slope. How Record Rain and Officials’ Mistakes Led to Drownings on a Subway 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z It was less than 48 hours after the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through New York City, bringing rushing water that had risen to over six feet, engulfing basements and sluicing through upper floors. They Put Everything Into Their Homes. Not One Was Spared in the Flood. 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z More than $1 million in donations sluiced into its coffers within 24 hours, and tens of millions of dollars followed in 2017, making the organization better funded than ever before. Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the ACLU Faces an Identity Crisis 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Hydrothermal energy stored in the water held by the dam will convert to kinetic energy, when it falls through the opening of the sluice. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z It is then that Dwiantoro and his small crew sluice and slice through traffic — pleading, skimming bumpers, looking to save a few precious seconds or minutes. The baby was dying in an ambulance, stuck in Jakarta gridlock. Volunteer motorcyclists parted traffic for them 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Everything still reeked of smoke, and when the first rains came, black water sluiced through the streets. Perspective | The Tulsa race massacre is finally becoming known. But where are the bodies? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Among the most notorious is a 133-mile stretch of highway that sluices through mountains across the northeast portion of the state. West Virginia’s Capito emerges as central figure as Democrats, Republicans seek infrastructure deal 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z I swam out to a buoy, admired the water sluicing over my shoulders. Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z She described a swiftly rigged system to sluice rainwater from the roof into a large laundry bin, then used to fill buckets and flush toilets. Texas hospitals are running out of water. Some facilities are now evacuating patients for their safety. 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z However, researchers found that at least 85 percent of barriers on European rivers are actually smaller structures such as weirs, culverts, fords, sluices, and ramps. European rivers are littered with barricades, but a movement grows to remove them 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z An insecure future king was sure to be jealous of a wife who sluiced all the attention away simply by tucking down her chin and flashing a look from under her eyelashes. Opinion | The Lady and the Trump 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z As the Donald Trump parenthesis in the republic’s history closes, he is opening the sluices on his reservoir of invectives and self-pity. Opinion | Trump will end his presidency as he began it: Whining 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z For decades, utilities largely disposed of coal ash by sluicing it into huge open pits. EPA letting some hazardous coal ash ponds stay open longer 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Nearby Shanghai is already taking precautions, opening its sluice gates to discharge excess floodwaters. Residents at China's giant lake unfazed as rainfall breaks records 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The man ended up trapped at the entrance of a sluice pipe that runs under the roadway as his wife called 911. Connecticut police, wife save man who fell into water while crabbing and almost swept into pipe 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z If the sluice gates were all opened at once, the city would be flooded. The spectacular failures and successes of massive dams 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Content was content was content, and coders controlled the sluices through which all content flowed. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Cities are expert in sluicing away the sins of the night before. Flags and fever dreams: London's morning after the Brexit before 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Heavy rain had fallen all morning, sluicing the windows of the train as it rolled through the port of Ipswich. The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z "The area around this sluice pipe is posted no trespassing, but the victim in this case fell and was swept into this area with the current." Connecticut police, wife save man who fell into water while crabbing and almost swept into pipe 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Mud pours down a rough wooden sluice, while black smoke belches from a deafening diesel engine: a hand-operated industrial hell amid the wild tropical beauty. 'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosenberg reported that the Kremlin succeeded in spreading discord among its adversaries and sluicing false claims about Ukrainian meddling into Republican talking points. Opinion | Trump’s White Whale 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Kathy Frankland, site manager of the Riverside Caravan Park, said she phoned the CRT as early at 8:00 GMT and asked it to open the sluice gate - 15 hours before it was eventually opened. 'Bizarre' sluice gate delay 'made flooding worse' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The flow was sucked uphill and burst onto a sluice tray, lined with a layer of felt that trapped the gold. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z During July’s floods, which ranked among the worst in years, Nepali officials said India had kept some of the embankments’ sluice gates closed for too long, despite requests to open them. As Deadly Floods Engulf Nepal Border, Anger Turns to India 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z For decades TVA, like other utilities, primarily dealt with this waste by sluicing it into unlined pits and impoundments. TVA holds meetings to build public trust in coal ash storage 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Andhra Pradesh state Home Minister M. Sucharitha said authorities closed the sluice gates of a river barrage to prevent those missing from being swept into the Bay of Bengal. India searches for 35 tourists in river after boat capsizes 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The building is owned by the council but the CRT is responsible for the sluice gate. 'Bizarre' sluice gate delay 'made flooding worse' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In the nearest crater, the crewmen were running a pump off a small generator, washing mud toward a sluice with a hose. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Kiran Thapa, the chief officer for the district of Rautahat, which includes Gaur, said he repeatedly called the district magistrate in India to open sluice gates to drain some of the water. As Deadly Floods Engulf Nepal Border, Anger Turns to India 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Runoff not only increases flooding, it sluices sewage, fertilizers and other pollutants into lakes and oceans, nourishing bacteria. Algae Bloom Fouls N.J.’s Largest Lake, Indicating Broader Crisis 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Sources sympathetic to Watermelon responded to the police visit on Monday by leaking to friendly news sluices an out-of-date paparazzi-style photo of the happy couple canoodling in what looked like a deserted pub garden. Boris Johnson says hair-gate is ‘beyond satire’. Here goes… | Stewart Lee 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Small-scale miners have long used mercury – easy to buy at around $10 for a thumb-sized vial – to extract flecks of gold from ore, before sluicing it away. Exclusive: Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z At the mine, he worked as a despedrador—the last man in the pit, who removes rocks from the water before it is sucked into the sluice. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But Mr. Thapa said the official in India did not return his calls, and that only two sluice gates were opened after the worst of the flooding. As Deadly Floods Engulf Nepal Border, Anger Turns to India 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z At Eightmile dam, the Jantzers use scuba equipment to dive down and attach a winch to a sluice gate and alter its release. How a crumbling dam in the Enchantments could change our understanding of the PNW wilderness 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z As for Uefa, and indeed everyone else involved in trying to sluice a little extra cash from the world’s great shared sporting obsession, the message should be taken on board. Wealth of Nations League: Uefa’s rare good idea a wonder to be savoured | Barney Ronay 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z You can’t remember how long you’ve been dead, or why you continued to live afterward, bound to these stained stones and the sound of the sea sluicing between them. A Child Ghost, an Escape and a Watery Haunting on Curaçao 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The storm surge then sluiced over the sides of the bay and rapidly inundated the area with water. Philippines Is Haunted by Chaos of Earlier Storm as Typhoon Mangkhut Hits 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Overnight Tuesday, crews had restored water to the tiny Keswick community about five miles west of Redding, and now water was sluicing down his lawn into what used to be his driveway. As fires rage statewide, a burned out California mining town looks to rebuild 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Many areas are submerged after authorities opened the sluice gates of an overflowing Idamalayar dam. Landslides caused by monsoon rains kill 19 in southern India 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The referendum passed, and it will sluice $262 million into a fund to polish the stadiums. LeBron or Not, the Cleveland Cavaliers Get Millions for Arena Renovation 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z If the agency decides to feed her, the Lummi will deliver the fish to her, catching and carrying it to the whale to sluice to her off the boat. Hand-feeding a wild orca: Inside the practice run to save the ailing killer whale J50 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Then she found a furry black mold spreading across the walls and raw sewage sluicing through the crawl space. Special Report: Spiders, sewage and fees - the other side of... 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Gaze into one facet, and you see nothing between downtown and the Ship Canal but asphalt and concrete; what used to be Queen Anne Hill has been sluiced away, filling much of Lake Union. The Seattles that might have been 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It was a nation’s dreams being sluiced down the plughole in a stream of saltwater. World Cup stunning moments: Germany humiliate Brazil 7-1 | Simon Burnton 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Richmond said current methods, including sluicing, classifying and using special water-driven rings which separate heavy metals - including gold from paydirt - still require panning to recover gold from the other materials. Sluicing for gold; Albany man’s invention hits paydirt 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z The Marib Dam, in an unpopulated area far from the capital, was struck in 2015, leaving a deep gash in the well-preserved northern sluice gate. War savages ancient sites in Yemen and Iraq, destroying archaeological record 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Beyond was a sluice and hoses running down to the rushing, green waters of the River Aguarico. ‘Our territory is our life’: one struggle against mining in Ecuador 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Later, I bike down to Boise Whitewater Park, where two artificially sluiced standing waves draw kayakers and surfers but, alas, I’ll have to return to catch this. You’re going where? Boise, Idaho. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z When the sluice opened a few months ago and men across all industries began to take sudden and precipitous falls, at first, I was slightly skeptical. Opinion | My Generation Thought Women Were Empowered. Did We Deceive Ourselves? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Letters in the Paradise Papers show how the duchy’s money sluiced through various funds, and where it ended up. Revealed: Queen's private estate invested millions of pounds offshore 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Every time it rains, a witch’s brew of pollutants from every impervious surface — roofs, parking lots, roads and more — sluices into storm drains. Stormwater pollution in Puget Sound streams killing coho before they can spawn 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Brazilian garimpos, or wildcat mines, are operated by small crews of men, often caked in red-brown mud and working with rudimentary pans, shovels and sluice boxes that have been used for centuries. Brazilians toil for gold in illegal Amazon mines 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Rain was sluicing into the backyard like they had never seen in 34 years there. How Harvey changed the shape of three families — one forever 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z By Buffalo it was sluicing, blotting out the moon, stars and landscape, everything except the blurry headlights ahead. On the road with Hurricane Harvey: what it was like to cover the storm 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Besides these obstacles, possible showers in the Sunday forecast may turn oil spatters and tire grit into a slippery sluice, following a record 53 or more days without measurable precipitation. Seattle’s Montlake Bridge to close: Your guide to weekend traffic woes 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Panning or sluicing for shiny flakes in a stream near Blewett Pass — or anywhere the gold bug takes you — can be rewarding in more ways than one. Modern-day prospectors find a little bit of gold and a lot of time outdoors 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Brazilian garimpos, or wildcat mines, are operated by small crews of men, often caked in red-brown mud and working with rudimentary pans, shovels and sluice boxes that have been used for centuries. Brazilians toil for gold in illegal Amazon mines 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Heavier rains caused by warmer temperatures will cause more agricultural runoff, sluicing more nutrients into rivers, lakes and oceans. Fertilizers, a Boon to Agriculture, Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Waterways 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The cell acts like a lattice of sluices and pumps—splitting up the streams, speeding them up or slowing them down, and mixing them back together. Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI's Future 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Despite improvements to some internal communal areas, many of the showers, stairways and sluices were dirty, along with cramped cells, many having broken windows. HMP Birmingham: Violence on rise, say inspectors - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Spelling out one of Bo’s scrawled messages of emotional anguish to move, say, water through a sluice, reminds me of last year’s “Inside” and before that, “Shadow Complex.” Review | ‘Pinstripe – An Adventure Through Hell’ is an indie game funded by Kickstarter and worth your attention 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But he said it was unlikely that the migratory birds that feed at the lake during the winter dry season would see any benefits from the proposed sluice gate. As China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Shrinks, Solution Faces Criticism 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The storm roared ashore, overwhelmed the beaches, sluiced through cropland and ripped new docks from their marshy holdings. The Gullah people have survived on the Carolina sea islands for centuries. Now development is taking a toll 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z More serious miners might consider investing in a suction dredge and sluice box - where legal - that allows them to process much more material. Tips of the trade: How to find gold in streams and rivers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z More serious miners might consider investing in a suction dredge and sluice box — where legal — that allows them to process much more material. Tips of the trade: How to find gold in streams and rivers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Other projects include sandblasting and repainting all equipment, checking all welds, installing new chains, replacing each gate’s electrical system and inspecting and repairing the nine sluice gates. Progress hits midway point on Harlan County Dam gate repairs 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Corruption scarred these Games, as contractors and politicians sluiced hundreds of millions of dollars into their coffers. Rio Games Highlight Problems With the Olympic Model 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Feces-filled rivers and streams sluice down from the surrounding highlands and empty into the bay. Stunner in Rio: Olympic windsurfers find the bay is clean (sort of) 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Along the river were small camps of prospectors, who had set up diesel-powered pumps and wooden sluices and were noisily gouging away the riverbanks. An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Football often gets a bad rap for its wastefulness and greed, its inane use of all that foaming, sluicing cash. Fire and ice: the inside story of Iceland’s remarkable rise | Barney Ronay 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The region’s miners extract the gold by sluicing sediment to separate gold-bearing sand, which they then mix with mercury to form an amalgamated lump of metal. Peru’s gold rush prompts public-health emergency 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Fins and tails belonging to at least nine animals, including two calves, quickly sluiced through the water. 6 years after the big spill, little known of Gulf dolphins 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Springing from Tibetan glaciers and flowing to the Andaman Sea, China's Nu River sluices around a horseshoe bend near Bingzhongluo in Yunnan Province. China May Shelve Plans to Build Dams on Its Last Wild River Here are a few of the shiny nuggets sluiced from this season's shows. The true rock star at Los Angeles fashion week: Hale Bob's Coachella-inspired collection 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z The federal indictment notes that the hacker wasn’t able to actually control the Bowman Avenue Dam’s new sluice gate because the gate was manually disconnected at the time, for maintenance reasons. Cyber War Comes to the Suburbs 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Between Aug. 28 and Sept. 18, 2013, a hacker sneaked into computer systems that monitor the dam and move the sluice gate. Time to rewrite the rules on cyberattacks 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The space was rigged with an ingenious network of angled bamboo sluices, which, Swiss Family Robinson-style, used gravity to bring cool water to the stills. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z If the sluice gate hadn’t been manually disconnected due to maintenance issues, Mr. Firoozi would have been able to remotely operate it, according to the indictment. Google Search Technique Aided N.Y. Dam Hacker in Iran 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The standard process for isolating stem cells from neural tissue required roughing up the tissue and then sluicing it aggressively through a pipette, a process known as trituration. The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers met Rivers Agency staff in Toome on Monday, where they use sluice gates to help control the level of the lough. NI flooding: £1.3m fund to focus on prevention - BBC News 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z But so much of that cash was sluiced off into bribe making and money laundering. Once a Sport’s Emperor, Sepp Blatter Is Now ‘a Punching Ball’ 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z What appears to be shredded orange cheese is really marinated carrots; the gloppy sour cream is a touch of crème fraîche; the meat is a fat spoonful of mashed potatoes sluiced with brown butter. Jonathan Gold review: Trois Familia, where the Trois Mec chef makes Mexican brunch 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z My life, my life with children, was a sluice that channeled running water to my pan; by tilting it, and swirling lightly, I at end of day might find a fleck of gold. The Bards of Boston 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z How many minutes did one sluice for, and at what pace? The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Newer dams also have concrete spillways and/or sluice pipes that drain excess water off without leading to failure. 4 Hidden Causes of Dam Failures 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z On Monday night, a strong thunderstorm caused a flood that sluiced through the canyons north of town and killed at least eight people and left five more missing. Utah town of Hildale, ravaged by floods, is home to secretive FLDS sect 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Other demonstrations include yarn spinning, chair caning, blacksmithing, pioneer games and a working sluice. Early Dakota Territory life featured at harvest festival 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Open for most of the time, its sluice gates can close if sea conditions turn. The world's biggest manmade wave - BBC News 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Sitting here watching the sluicing downpour from Tropical Storm Etau as it passes southwest of Tokyo makes me realize that there's something about being in Japan that prompts questions on human frailty. Having an Existential Crisis? It Could be Worse, and Weirder 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Spaghetti with squid and olives, sluiced with olive oil and tomatoes, neatly splits the difference between Rome and Connecticut. Lobster rolls and 'HoJo-style' clams at Catch & Release 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Using brains and brawn, Hercules tore through a stable wall, then dug trenches for two nearby rivers to surge through and sluice away the muck. Greece's debt crisis explained, in mythological terms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Over the next 20 years, taxpayers in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County will sluice $262 million into improvements for the city’s arenas and stadiums. Sports Owners Dip Into the Public’s Purse, Despite Their Billions in the Bank 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Janicek said there were 3,000 feet of cable, the catwalk and all the tools underwater on the lake side of the dam, so engineers concluded that the sluice gates couldn’t be opened safely. Harlan County Dam’s tainter gates under repair 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z And in the next one after that - a large painting of the sluice on the river Waveney - I worked only through the telescope. Sargy Mann: How a blind painter sees - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Association president Terry Hoerer said recreational gold mining includes digging under rocks and running the minerals into a sluice to break down the materials. Gold prospecting resurfaces as recreational activity 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z In one vision of Boston, a network of canals fills and empties with tides and storm surges. Water is drawn through sluices with embedded, hydroelectric turbines, generating power. “Reason with water rather than repel it”: Architects take on Boston’s watery future 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Their bony shoulders shook with laughter as they disappeared into the throng sluicing down into the centre of Durham, in the north-east of England, where the annual Miners' Gala was in full swing. Living with the J-word 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Sedgemoor District Council and the Environment Agency commissioned experts to explore whether a tidal barrier or sluice would work best to protect the tidal River Parrett and River Tone upstream of Bridgwater. Somerset floods: What has been done? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Only when it is can we decide upon what is the correct subsidy to the sluicing and browsing. The Subsidy To Politicians' Lunches At Westminster Is A Lot Larger Than Anyone Thinks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z By opening the sluice gate, Goddard breached a local by-law and the Land Drainage Act. Builder fined for opening sluice gate 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Each year, another 3 million tons arrive there, and a third of it sloshes over the sluice gates, according to the U.S. Report: Giant pool of silt looks scary, but it isn’t a major threat to the Chesapeake Bay And it offers them a prime directive: build ever-grander stadiums and make sure that every stream of revenue — suites, seats, concessions, parking — sluices into your coffers. Sniffing for Dollars at Home of the Vikings 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Using dredgers and vacuum pumps, miners slurp up the sediments and send them through crude wooden sluice boxes. Peru fights gold fever with fire and military force And fair enough, it’s a reasonable questioning of public policy as to why there should be a £3 million a year subsidy to the politicians’ sluicing and browsing. The Subsidy To Politicians' Lunches At Westminster Is A Lot Larger Than Anyone Thinks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Goddard was also ordered to pay £1,500 for the prosecution costs and the cost of repairing the sluice gate. Builder fined for opening sluice gate 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z More than half a century ago, millions were spent to tame the flood-prone channel, turning it into a straight sluice to carry excess water to the Gulf of Mexico. Cities try to restore wildness to urban rivers 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Public records, affidavits and a special legislative report released last week offer a strikingly candid view inside the world of political nonprofits, where big money sluices into campaigns behind a veil of secrecy. A Campaign Inquiry in Utah Is the Watchdogs’ Worst Case 2014-03-18T04:48:10Z The footage shows a mother and two of her cubs inspecting a sluice and leaving scent markings. Otter family captured on camera 2014-03-15T15:11:40Z I asked Mr. Squadron about the argument that it’s antidemocratic to sluice away a small amount of charitable giving. Gotham: Parks Department Takes a Seat Behind Nonprofit Conservancies 2014-02-04T03:03:04Z Worldwide, an estimated 10-15 million small-scale miners dig, dredge, sluice and pan for gold, and many use mercury to separate the pure metal from the silt. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z Flood waters rose quickly after 15 hydro power plants in the central region opened their sluice gates to release water in reservoir protection, the newspaper reported. Twenty-eight die in Vietnam floods, nine missing 2013-11-17T04:59:30Z Miners use mechanical sluices to trap the mud that is rich in gold. The metal poisoning millions of miners 2013-09-18T00:59:53Z Engineers closed all the navigation and sluice gates for 12 hours. Russian Flood Barrier Is a Model for New York City 2013-06-10T17:15:00.293Z These were restricting access to the handwash sink in the sluice. Cleaning concern at cancer hospital 2013-05-20T11:02:23Z He imagined the German blood product sluicing through his body, trouncing the free radicals, persuading his white blood cells not to eat through bone. Ben Marcus: “The Dark Arts.” 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z Gettysburg radiated roads to all points of the compass, and those roads became like plumbing that sluiced the two armies toward each other. Gettysburg: The battle and its aftermath 2013-04-29T17:09:00Z Instead, it is filled by an unusual shale that formed after an ancient seaway sluiced into the crater, depositing sediment and an array of bizarre sea creatures that hardened into fossils, French said. Crater found in Iowa points to asteroid break-up 470 million years ago 2013-02-19T02:16:12Z He has pioneered programs for young men accused of drug offenses, sluicing them away from prison. Gotham: Brooklyn District Attorney Clings to Discredited Cases 2013-01-29T02:48:47Z And they found that while the standard detergents did a decent job at sluicing away the , they didn’t get rid of the dairy-encrusted virus. Norovirus Survives Restaurant Dishwashing Protocols 2012-12-21T00:45:00.400Z The flood defence pumps were officially unveiled in July, as part of the project that included earth embankments and a series of sluice gates. Flooding defences got waterlogged 2012-12-14T15:57:40Z With so many fund dollars now up for grabs—and tons of it sluicing to Vanguard—that’s probably not for long. The Year of the 'Vanguard Effect' 2012-12-11T10:59:19Z Inside information sluiced from brokerages to white-shoe law firms to investment houses. The Lonely Redemption of Sandy Lewis, Wall Street Provocateur 2012-09-15T15:33:41Z Nearly 8,000 feet of buried pipe carries rainwater that used to sluice through the streets. In one of Haitian capital’s roughest neighborhoods, a pretty good second chance 2012-08-18T22:00:00Z Great Heavens sluiced through the mud at Haydock to win the Lancashire Oaks last time and is a fair bet to step up to this level at 15-8. Talking Horses 2012-07-22T11:26:57Z Few believed it was caused by rain alone, and many said the sluice gates of the nearby Neberdzhayevskoe reservoir must have been opened. Caught unawares: The night the Russian floods came 2012-07-10T20:13:38Z Officials deny allegations blaming the ferocity of the floods on the opening of reservoir sluice gates. Russia mourning for flood deaths 2012-07-09T05:01:26Z At least 144 people were killed, with some activists blaming the ferocity of the flood on the opening of sluice gates at a reservoir. Putin orders flood deaths inquiry 2012-07-08T07:48:37Z This year the rain sluiced down and the marquee groaned in the wind, as we enjoyed an opera set in an Italian town in August. Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z The sludge acid that the Kalbfleisch factory sluiced into the water back in the 1830s is of more than academic concern. Mitch Waxman, Tour Guide to Decay 2012-06-16T18:26:51Z It was the position he held inside my body and, still narcotized and sluiced with postpartum hormones, I cried in recognition and sorrow. Ina May Gaskin and the Battle for at-Home Births 2012-05-23T19:07:27Z I long to dive where I used to swim, at Gray’s pool, alongside the burned mill; I used to strip and plunge off the sluice, after working in the field. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z There were no sluice valves or means of letting water from one compartment to another. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z After the second glass of wine he began to talk, suddenly and in a flood, as though a sluice had been pulled up. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z A new feature in diking was the construction of dams or sluices across the mouths of rivers, sometimes with important consequences for the villages situated on the spot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A reservoir affords the means of sluicing the channel and supplying the basins. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z New sluices in the current Mississippi River levees would allow sediment to flow to the coastline again, rebuilding land lost to the rising seas. How BP-Spill Settlement Money May Save the Gulf Coast 2012-03-13T12:45:00Z The hold is stowed full of provisions, tools for mining, and lumber for sluices. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Nearly all the polders of Zeeland and South Holland are able to discharge naturally into the sea at average low water, self-regulating sluices being used. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z County, state and national Democratic leaders sluiced hundreds of thousands of dollars into Mr. Weprin’s campaign coffers. Gregory Davidzon, a Kingmaker of Brooklyn?s Little Russia 2012-03-10T16:00:49Z It seemed nothing short of magic to watch the great gates slowly close, and then to feel their own boat rising slowly but steadily, as the water rushed in from the upper sluice. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Meanwhile, Azrael ran along the dam of the river bank till she came to the sluice, which she raised by the exertion of her full strength. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z The Hansens had visited both localities and had found, as they said: Plenty of the stuff, but it was too fine for our sluices without mercury. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Alongside the mill there is a narrow, deep sluice. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z It has blown up the sluices with which Social-Democracy held back the current of the revolutionary energy of the proletariat, and has directed that current into its own channels. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z On the 16th, the weather appearing favourable, our anchor was weighed, and, with the Adelaide, we soon entered the sluice of the Narrow, proceeding rapidly, though the wind blew hard against us. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z A heavy, troublesome rock which accumulated in the sluices, much to the disgust of the miners, turned out to be cerussite, a fine ore of lead. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z He was then able to pass an average of fifty cubic yards of sand through his sluices per day. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z They were very, very close to the entrance of the sluice now, and nearing it more swiftly every moment. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z Once you get adjusted to life in a fishbowl, with pedestrian traffic sluicing around you in six directions at once, a surpassing calm takes over. City Room: Final Days to See Gwyneth Leech's Show at the Flatiron Building 2012-02-14T18:38:47Z He also saw a man lying in the water that sluiced about her deck, while another who strove to hold him with one hand clung to a stanchion. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z These banks or walls are thus torn down and, by the same water, the loosened, disintegrated materials are caused to flow into and through long, wooden, box-like troughs known as "sluices." The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z They reached the diggings and set up both sluices and pumps. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Just look how the water rushes through that sluice. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z When this first sluice was "blown up" by the tide in 1713 there were loud rejoicings. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Then two boats pulled ashore across a sluice of tide, and came back some hours later when it had slackened a little, loaded rather deeper than was safe with sawn-up pines. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Riffle, rif′l, n. in mining, the lining of the bottom of a sluice: in seal engraving, a small iron disc at the end of a tool.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z He had worked diggings outside the Paramo claim, using common sluice boxes. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The girl was terribly close to the sluice, and as Bert swam he felt the tug of the current. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z Both men flung themselves down the companion, and the water sluiced after them and washed them struggling about the floor of the cabin. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The sea washed clean across her, and she showed no more than a strip of sluicing side amidst the spray. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z I dabbed and sluiced, but nothing I could do seemed to check the flow; it went on, obstinate and irrepressible. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z At Paramo, on the beach, they now use a combination of wooden sluices and a copper-plate machine with which all gold miners are familiar, but which could not be briefly described here. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Taking advantage of an earthquake, the Spaniards opened the sluices and inundated the streets. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z "I'm coming down at any rate," said I as we passed along the pond bank, and over the plank-bridge that crossed the brow of the falling sluice. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Powerful sluices protect the inner harbour from the high tides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Your Mint will never go until this be discovered, for these men are the sluices that drain all your money. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z The riffles in the sluices save the coarser gold, while the mercury on the copper plates takes up the flour gold as it drifts away over the plates. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z When they were washed in the sluice boxes and thrown in piles, they looked as white as snow. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z The lower pond received the overflow from the upper by a tunnel from the deep black sluice. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It heaved and worked beneath them; the foam sluiced across it, and the stream forced the thinner tops of shattered trees above the barrier. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z It was the great, rough fragments of cliff and native rock left after the earth had been sluiced out of the dam that remained to form the unexpected rapid which now confronted us. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z It was apparent that all sluices would have to be supplied by means of pumps. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z When we mined in California, we washed with sluice boxes, whenever we could get plenty of water. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z She let him lead her along the bank of the pond, and across the plank over the sluice. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When they gained the sluice, Varne stood expatiating afresh, on gables and old chimney stacks. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z This, however, was not a question of much consequence, and Harry kept him busy during the next half hour sluicing the roof with water which he passed up in the bucket. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z He wanted to fill the bath again at once to see it run out again, and Blair let him engineer a final sluice for himself. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Old Mr. Wright had packed a whip saw over to make lumber for sluice boxes. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z Nothing all day long but the sound of the sluice—and mists, and rotten leaves. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z If ever two startled girls stood staring, it was these two in the middle of the sluice path. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Her deck was sluicing, and every now and then a green and white cascade came frothing over the coaming into the well. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z By this term the author includes all the operations of sluicing, buddling, and wet concentration generally. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Uncle Isaac and I borrowed the saw and went to work and whipsawed lumber for sluice boxes. A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer 2011-12-21T03:00:30.213Z We went down into the front garden, over the turf bridge where the sluice rushed coldly under, on to the broad slope of the bank. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The girl, tripping lightly up the sluice path, felt all the invigorating influence of it go through her system like a stimulant. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Bitter spray was flying thick in the air, water already sluiced about the deck, and it was disconcerting to recollect that they were still eight miles from the inlet. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z The washer or his wife lets the water into the head of the sluice, where he throws the sand which contains the particles of gold. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z In 1741, sluices or lock gates were constructed for this purpose, and the following year, the fevers, which had been destructive to the coast population for a long time previous, disappeared altogether. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z You claim the cabin and all improvements on that other prospect—we claim the sluice and all improvements on this prospect. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z He stood apparently unconcerned on the sluice, but in reality, listening intently. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z At the Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam in northeast Maryland, the barbarians are at the sluice gates. Susquehanna dam?s sediment has officials fearing for the Chesapeake Bay 2011-11-07T00:27:18Z As soon as these grooves are full of gold particles mixed with fine sand, the sluice is removed from the stools and raised up on its head. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z I even noticed unequivocal remains of a sluice by which the water was diverted to the tunnel near the arch that crosses the Sik. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z There's considerable rotten quartz that can be sluiced, and probably some loose dirt to be washed; but there's a thundering fine vein or lode running right across. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Instead, he took his way up to the sluice and stood gazing out over the ice-bound pond. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The Bangkok governor says the sluice gates in Ms. Boonsom’s neighborhood must stay closed if the industrial park, which is on the outskirts of Bangkok, is to be saved. Bangkok Officials Have to Choose Who Stays Dry in Floods 2011-11-01T12:25:36Z The head in this case is nothing but the upper end of the planks of which the sluice is composed. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z For this purpose, the land is carefully ditched, and advantage is taken of every favorable occasion for discharging the water through the sluices. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The ditch that fed the sluice was only a few steps from the shallow edge of the pit. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Nearer and nearer drew the voices, and then their owners came in sight, and began leisurely to descend the path leading from the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The sluice gate is about 20 miles from central Bangkok, which has largely remained dry, thanks to a wall of sandbags erected, guarded and maintained by soldiers. Bangkok Officials Have to Choose Who Stays Dry in Floods 2011-11-01T12:25:36Z In this way the metallic particles, being turned over backward, fall into another tub, for the small stones and gravel have rolled down the sluice. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z In one northeastern city neighborhood angry residents have been demanding the opening of a sluice gate to let water out of their inundated community. Thai flood frustration grows, cabinet eyes recovery 2011-11-01T09:11:02Z He returned with Jenny, harnessed, and they triumphantly dragged away the sluice, carrying also the scissors props on which it had rested. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Thus musing he gained the sluice and looked down at his dwelling. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z In workings on a larger scale, where the supply of water is abundant, as in California, sluices were generally employed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Some people place large bowls under the sluice instead of tubs, and as in the other cases, the unclean concentrates are washed in the small bowl. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z But city authorities have warned that the flow through the sluice gate could move via a canal into large parts of the city which are now dry, including an industrial estate. Thai flood frustration grows, cabinet eyes recovery 2011-11-01T09:11:02Z Up here were a few sluices, too: the long troughs, also with cleats nailed across the bottom inside, to catch the gold as the water and dirt flowed over. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z They were halfway down the path from the sluice by now. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The incline of the sluice varies with the conformation of the ground and the tenacity of the stuff to be washed, from 1 in 16 to 1 in 8. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z He washes again and again through this sluice. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Water was pouring in like a sluice through a rent in the after bulkhead that separated the engine-room from No. 3 hold. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Terry and George tramped clear up the gulch, inquiring at sluice and rocker and prospect hole, and even at tents and cabins. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Melian swung on her large hooded cloak, and they went up the step path to the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The stream, laden with stones and gravel, passes into the sluices, where the gold is recovered in the manner already described. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Some people make use of a sluice which has square pockets with short vertical recesses which hold the particles of gold. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z In July he sent his Indian down for ten men to work his sluices and much whiskey. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Let your partner make the pies, an' ye turn your hand to helpin' me at the sluice. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Then he stood upright again, and continued his stroll up towards the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The loss of mercury is about the same, from 5 to 6 cwt. being in constant use per mile of sluice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z These riffles are placed equidistant from one another, and each is higher than the one next toward the lower end of the sluice. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Both had been content to let the details go until such time as the sluicing should begin. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z The water had been turned off from the sluice as if in preparation for a postponed clean-up. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z A long reach of ice cleft their depth; then a sudden quacking as several wild duck sprang upwards from an open hole by the sluice, and swished high above their heads. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The “tom” is a sort of cradle with an extended sluice placed on an incline of about 1 in 12. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Then the lowest riffle is removed from the sluice, and the sediment which has accumulated flows out with the water and is caught in a bowl. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z She tried to remember what Brent had told her of the sluicing out process, and realized that he had told very little. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z For Mr. Greeley, after having deliberately selected the packed dirt from several of the riffles at the middle of the sluice, was proceeding to wash his pan at the ditch. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z No more thought however did he give to this, as he reached the level of the sluice and looked out. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z In larger plant the upper ends of the sluices are often cut in rock or lined with stone blocks, the grating stopping the larger stones being known as a “grizzly.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Just as Thuringians cover the sluice with canvas, so some people cover it with the skins of oxen or horses. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Vaguely, she told the Indians of sluice boxes and riffles, but they were quick to see that she knew not whereof she spoke. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z "At two dollars a pie, and a dollar and a half a day loading Pat Casey's sluice." The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Mechanically he mounted the staircase-like path which led up to the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The “pan” is now only used by prospectors, while the “cradle” and “tom” are practically confined to the Chinese; the sluice is considered to be the best contrivance for washing gold gravels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z As soon as the waters of the torrent have all run away, the miners throw the material out of the ditches with iron shovels, and wash it in a common sluice box. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z On one side was a deep muddy sluice communicating with the river. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z "But maybe it will when we sluice it." The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z He went quickly down the sluice path to his house, all superstitious midnight imaginings thrown to the winds. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It then passes through screens and grizzlies to retain the coarse gravel, the finer material passing on to sluice boxes provided with riffles, supplied with mercury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Carnot encouraged the garrisons of Dunkirk and Bergues, and caused the sluices to be opened. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z In this opinion Guy Fawkes concurred, and they proceeded to transport the powder to the boat, which was brought up the sluice within a few yards of the door. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Left in possession of both claims, the two partners decided to fill their oyster-can from the Golden Prize first, and they jumped into the work of setting up the sluice. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z They had nearly gained the gate which opened out of the sombre woods on to the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Estimated value of all mills, Estimated including all improvements: viz., privilege, site, sluices, land, dams and piers. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The sluice of water had evidently washed away much of the scent which stood for guide-posts, directing signs, and pointing hands along the trail. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The deck had been holystoned and well sluiced before sunrise and was not quite dry, and there was a slight coolness in the air where Evelyn Cliffe sat under the awning. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Several men were at work with the sluice. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z If that sluice were to give way it’d sweep me and my shack to Kingdom Come before you could say knife. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z There was a moment of suspense, in which he could hear the dull rushing of the torrent that filled the sluices, overflowing with the rain, on either side of the temple. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z In the east, the light broke through, as through a bursting sluice. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Another sea came tumbling in, but while its crest broke across the rail it picked her up and she moved on slowly with the water sluicing aft down her inclined deck. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z "You might try a pan from the riffles of the sluice, Mr. Greeley," suggested Mr. Byers. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z But even before he had reached the top of the path which led to the sluice, the rush of the blinding cold flakes into his eyes drove him back. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It will be necessary for us to divide into bands to examine the banks of the stream from the mill-dam as far as the large sluice gate at the miner's dam. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z If the waters of the river fell, then those of the lake filled them up, by careful management of the sluices. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z Finally, the sluices of heaven opened suddenly, and down rushed torrents of rain. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Into some of the sluices water had to be poured by hand, but others led from streams and the water flowed through without having been dipped. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z He rose, and carried the thing out, holding it behind him, and ascended again to the sluice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z At 4:15 p.m., as the rain was sluicing off roofs in sheets, the firemen moved the trucks to higher ground. Keene Journal: Tropical Storm Irene Leaves Keene, in Adirondacks, Battered and Cut Off 2011-09-01T02:42:01Z At each opening of the sluice gates they go out with the current and perish in the fields. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z In fact, their sluices were opened, and floods of rain began to deluge the steppe. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z "A regular sluice, running right across our claim." The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Before it got there it reposed under a roundish topped stone on the sluice path. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z It was impossible to reach Edith and take her free hand to pull her out by—the bank each side the sluice, or stream, or whatever you choose to call it, was too deep. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z A sluice is where water is made to run through a ditch into a trough that has cleats nailed across the bottom to check the water and form ripples. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z The naumachia was a sea-fight, either in the arena, which was flooded for the occasion by a system of pipes and sluices, or on an artificial lake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Once he paused, to cast a glance behind at the stream and the waiting sluice; and then he disappeared around a shoulder up the draw. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z The sluice was shut fast, but the brown water squirted through the chinks and danced down the hill. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z By the stones of the sluice dark-green ferns flourished exceedingly. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Lacking provisions, he went to Golden for supplies, returned May 6th, and started a sluice on May 16th, from which he took as much as nine hundred dollars a day. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z This cannot be called marsh land, for the ground is intersected by ditches, having sluices through which they discharge their water at low tide. The Lost Heir 2011-08-07T02:00:09.367Z "And with a sluice running you can just pile up the yellow!" The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z The leaves were driven against it until a high barricade was raised, and the water could only trickle through the sluice. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Then a great lot of water sluiced in under the doors. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z His return to the hotel was unheralded save by the cheerful grin of Cholo Sam, the Mexican proprietor of the hostelry, who was sluicing out the barroom. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z That’s replaced by thin films of nutrient-rich water sluicing down hundreds of plastic channels cradling the roots of salad greens, lettuces and culinary herbs. Want Fresher Produce? Leave Dirt Behind 2011-08-02T22:57:55Z Let the sluice be, so His Honor can clane up some o' the riffles by himself. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z After them went James Tichel in his boat, the spray sluicing up from her bows. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z The sluice was already almost empty; there was only one or two feet of water. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Steam pumps were noisily at work and men were busy at the sluices into which the gold-bearing earth and gravel were washed down from the high bank. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z The fountains must be stirred to their depths and their torrents sent bounding along their sluices, else we sink presently into the pool of inertia, victims of indecision and slaves of fate. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z You've dug the ditch to your sluice higher up than necessary, and it lowers the level of the spring so much that no water enters our gulch at all. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Noll himself filled a bucket and sluiced the man, and drove him below with curses. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z About three o'clock, at the dawn of day, the sluice was almost full. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Then I had to scrub and sluice vigorously to get the thick coating of rust off, in which process I became very much like a piece of rusty old iron myself. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z “Now, get below for a sluice and a dram,” cried the cheery voice of the Lieutenant, whose idea of handling a crew was not according to naval instructions. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Back at their sluice again they stood undecided. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z I was near the sluices and bridge, when I stopped on a sudden, as if driven into the earth. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z At daybreak I went to raise the mill-dam, for this heavy rain had overflowed the sluice. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Then for two months they worked away with pick and shovel, dish and sluice, almost day and night, till they had secured some eighteen hundred ounces, which gave them about �1000 each! A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z The sea is rushing in like a sluice. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z "Do you know where we can get a sluice?" The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Tom slipped off by himself and behind that screen of bushes up there on the hillside he took a bath in the sluice. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z There was also a dam built for sluicing logs. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z She knew all about panning off and cradling, and even sluicing, and could do them all. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z Blue tides may sluice and drench their time in caves and weedy creeks; Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z So we are—or will be as soon as we get our lumber in place for sluices. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z There were four “guns” in use and these washed down the raw hillside into open sluices, the riffles of which caught the separated gold. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z He spent four years in California, engaged in mining and lumbering, and dug the second canal in the State for sluicing purposes. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z She obeyed on the instant; but then went into his room and opened all the sluices of her roaring wrath. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The sluices of popular revolutionary movement were open, yet revolutionary energy was being gradually exhausted. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z Detachments of the 34th Fusilier Regiment, therefore, on the 15th, marched on the sluices under a heavy rifle fire from the besieged, and destroyed the dam. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z The next day was a sluice of rain. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z At last the moon opened her sluices of radiance, and brought me and the dog into full light. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The sluices at the wooden bridge up stream were shut, the bed of the stream lay empty and stony. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Yet his memory will be that of a hero who opened the sluices of the revolutionary torrent. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z To run off the water from the ditches of the fortress it was necessary to destroy the sluices by the Jews' Gate. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Personal property of great value, such as gold in sluice boxes, though unguarded, was perfectly secure. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z A separate excursion has to be made to them, as they do not come within the round of a yachting trip, unless you drag your jolly over the sluices, and row the four-miles-long Muck Fleet. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The impoverished flood is then discharged through the sluices, and in due time, after the first has stiffened, a fresh flow is admitted. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The big streets acted as sluice gates and filled first, but soon the water found the smaller roads that connect the grid. Returning to Life in Kamaishi 2011-04-21T21:00:19Z The other rail was apparently level with the sea, and the brine that sluiced down the incline washed knee-deep inside it. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z At these words it seemed as if Pomuchelskopp raised the sluice which for years and years had dammed up all his human sympathies, that he might the more fully pour them out over P�mpelhagen. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z Of course, the ground taken out is thawed by building fires, and when the thaw comes and water rushes in they set their sluices and wash the dirt. All about the Klondyke gold mines 2011-04-13T02:00:12.887Z It sluiced off, however, and the sharp swoop into the trough was repeated as comber after comber swept upon them. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Her senses were as acute as a hare's and sluiced in upon her a bewildering flood of sights and sounds. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z It was raining as Captain Ryecroft returned to his hotel, as at intervals throughout that day; and now on the succeeding night it is again sluicing down as from a shower-bath. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Tepco said seawater samples taken on 2 April close to the sluice gate of the No 2 reactor contained 7.5 million times the legal limit for radioactive iodine. Radiation tests in Japan schools 2011-04-05T10:08:58Z Then there was no water to sluice with, but one fellow made a rocker, and in ten days took out the $10,000 for the first instalment. All about the Klondyke gold mines 2011-04-13T02:00:12.887Z The Dutchmen could not be at work at this time of night, opening the sluice for any purpose that I could conjecture. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The seldomer, certainly, that such sluices of varied corruption are opened, the better. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z Most of seems to have cash sluicing around like so much questionable unidentified liquid in a Glastonbury toilet paddock but HRT are stuck in the mud. F1 2011 team guide: Hispania Racing Team 2011-03-21T12:00:04Z Finland has an extensive and well-kept system of canals, of which the sluiced canal connecting Lake Saima with the Gulf of Finland is the chief one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z So, tunnelling and rocking, they took out $40,000 before there was water to sluice with. All about the Klondyke gold mines 2011-04-13T02:00:12.887Z He could return to close the sluice, and in a few hours the water would cover both the boat and me. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z So artificial is the arrangement throughout the body, that there is not a single vein without valves and sluices, making a passage for the blood. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Presuming that a hose-pipe has been installed, and that the floor is constantly being sluiced down with water, no great harm will result. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z Oh, mayest thou follow in the steps of mighty pharaohs who built temples in all parts of Egypt, and through canals and sluices increased the area of fertile land in this country.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z The water was shut off from running through the sluices. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Heaven opens its sluices--a perfect deluge; the roads abominable--one longs to make the Landrath drive upon them from morning to night. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z He sent forces against them; but the French fell back before him and opened the sluices of the canals, thus flooding much of the country between him and the sea. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The storm was really over, and the sluices of heaven seemed to have exhausted themselves at last, but the air still hung damp and laden with rain. Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z Since then, it has scrutinized the heavens and the earth; it has created our wisdom, and made the plan of every field, sluice, canal, pyramid, and temple in Egypt.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Then a strip of wood, about two inches square, would be placed across the dump-box where it joined the head of the sluices. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z The most heinous crime, next to horse stealing or sluice robbing, is "shying drinks" at such times. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z At the critical moment some of the sluices were opened, and the Belgian guns broke down the banks at several places. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z A factor which the Duke of York may have neglected was the power of flooding all that flat country round, the road which the French in Dunquerque, being in possession of the sluices, possessed. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z We had read so many letters, all saying the same thing, all saying it more or less beautifully, one had the feeling that one was being sluiced all over with sympathy. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z They were shouting that they might hear each other above the roar in the sluices, and were laughing cheerily—for Poo-Bah was a good paymaster to his men. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z It was raining as Captain Ryecroft returned to his hotel, as at intervals throughout that day; and now on the succeeding night it is again sluicing down as from a shower bath. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Every sluice in this region of stream and canal was opened, and the brown flood spread over the land like the "bore" in a narrow estuary. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z This must be obtained from the 8600 cubic feet permitted, and the use of the water for other purposes when sluicing is being done must be diminished. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z Well, one day they were playing by the side of the deep wooden trough or sluice that receives the water from the mill-race, before it is poured upon the great wheels. Strive and Thrive or, Stories for the Example and Encouragement of the Young 2011-02-07T03:00:25.547Z He glanced towards the working miners, and followed the line of sluices to the artificial pond in the "pup" whence they got their water. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z It takes a very minute amount of electricity to open and close the sluices; but the man who has control of that small amount of electricity has the whole irrigation system at his mercy. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z I stood on the steps, waiting for the door to be opened, while the rain sluiced upon me from a broken eaveshoot that had, amongst many other things, escaped the notice of my landlord. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z There is some question as to the necessity of using some water for sluicing. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z "The possession of the carbuncle that lies buried in the sluice of the Tigris," was the reply. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z No; what you hear," said Jean Oberl�, after listening for a while, "is the noise of the sluice. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z This credit and gold system can be compared to an enormous system of reservoirs and irrigation works, the sluices of which are all opened and closed by electricity. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z There is a prospective change of tone and sluicing of grimy decks. PR man Simon Greenberg must bring new reality to News of the World 2011-01-16T00:06:07Z A permit will therefore issue to the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company for the diversion of 6500 cubic feet a second, and the same rule must obtain as to sluicing, as already stated. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z You’ve let a college dude take the sluice ahead of me. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The rocker period lasted only about a year, and was succeeded by that of the sluice, a sort of magnified rocker, fifty or even a hundred feet long. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He came to with water sluicing his face and a hat fanning air into his lungs. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Now, however, the quantity of the water is regulated by sluices and the ceremony has fallen into disuse. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z They opened an underground sluice through which the water of the salt lake in the bottom of the abyss would rush into the defile and drown the enemy. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z On the spring drive the logs are floated to the dams, and then the gates are raised and the logs are “sluiced” through with a head of water behind them to carry them down-stream. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Perhaps 20 rainbow trout, illuminated by the sun, finned in the sluice of current that spilled from between the two large boulders that helped form the pool. The Man Who Brought Trout to a Valley of Gravel 2010-12-24T03:51:42Z When darkness fell, huge fires were lighted on the banks and the sluicing continued. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z The clouds opened up and cold rain sluiced down. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z "I have had the fish-pond sluices raised," said Richard, "and you will hardly fill in this gap in an hour's time." The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z The collection of water and quick work in “sluicing” are most important, for the streams give down only about so much water in the spring. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z If the sleigh ride that was this inspection had just been given its initial push down the slope, it then proceeded to plunge, luge-like, down a sluice gate of detritus-flecked squalor. Would the City Shut Down Your Kitchen? 2010-09-28T23:58:00Z Go ahead with your sluicing, or my drive will be down on top of you.” The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z A nugget of gold weighing three-quarters of an ounce dangles from a leather string on his chest, a reminder of the thrill of finding gold winking amid the gravel in a sluice pan. Where Dams Once Stood, Prospectors Spur Anger 2010-09-04T00:54:00Z Ms. Davidoff took a photograph of the geese sluicing through the algae for reference: How many goslings were there? | Plein-Air Painting: Plein-Air Painters, Out From Hibernation 2010-06-18T23:28:00Z When a load of logs is suddenly set free from the cable holding it back on a steep descent, as in Chapter XXVI., it is said to be “sluiced.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z It’s meant to stay put, to sluice through our veins, arteries and capillaries as it irrigates the body. In Blood, Life's Ebb and Flow 2010-04-19T20:52:00Z The dam pond was brown with logs, and they were being sluiced through in a great hurry. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Vietnam has installed a series of sluice gates to hold back high tides as well as control annual monsoon flooding. Vietnam Feels the Heat of a 100-Year Drought 2010-03-04T16:10:00Z In my experiments on flowing mud, for example, the air entrapped in the mass while descending from the sluice into the trough, bursts in bubbles from the surface at a short distance downwards. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. He knew—that most terrible knowledge of all woods terrors—that he was “sluiced.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "You shall have a proper sluicing in it in the morning, then," says the unfeeling wretch; "so just lay your head high till daylight comes in." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 What’s to hinder his blowing the other when he’s finished sluicing his drive? The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z On her retiring, however, the pent-up sluices of the Popites were thrown open, and out there rushed two impetuous streams of poetry; sometimes blending, sometimes alternating, and sometimes running counter to each other. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 The mud is first permitted to flow beneath the two sluices until it has covered the bottom of the trough for some distance, when it is arrested. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Who was it cracked the neck of her, ’way up at old Lake Blunder, When hell broke loose and sluiced our spruce? King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z |
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