The secretions stop up the various channels and cavities; they lodge within them; they undergo a putrid decomposition, and pass out with difficulty in the form of a purulent and bloody flux, in the highest degree infectious.
It is very essential, indeed, that the mucous membranes of the digestive channels should be free, and not irritated by the contact of solid alimentary substances or bilious secretions.
This has rarely been the case with the lower and incessantly active crater of Kilauea, whose lava, when in excess, appears to escape by subterranean channels to the sea.
When chaos comes, as it did in San Francisco, and all the channels of familiar life are closed, and human anguish grows to be intolerable, compilation of statistics is impossible, even if it were not repugnant to the feelings.
No doubt there is smooth water inside the reef, but the channels through it, if there be any here, are so narrow that it would be almost certain death to make the attempt.
There are at least three great channelsby which the life-blood of Africa is drained.
If the slave-trade is to be effectually checked, the flow through these three channels must be stopped.
They begin by damming up the channels of about twenty yards width between the islands.
Humboldt says, "The navigator, in proceeding along the channels of the delta of the Orinoco at night, sees with surprise the summits of the palm-trees illuminated by large fires.
The travellers ran for days through channels varying from fifty to five hundred yards in width, between numberless islands.
But the Prince of Orange had, through his own secret channels of intelligence, received more credible information from Madrid, which entirely contradicted this report.
The eastern portion of it is covered with forest; the channels on either side are not far from ten miles wide, and it is distant from Quebec about fifty miles.
Another method of applying sewage to the surface of the ground is to lead it inchannels between narrow beds on which vegetables have grown.
The beds are made by properly plowing, the channels between the beds being back-furrowed.
Boston has expended many thousands dollars in buildingchannels around swamps and in providing artificial outlets for swamps, so that the color of the water collected on the watershed shall not show the color induced thereby.
Besides these sea channels extending across the group, there are twenty inlets from three to fifteen miles in depth, generally running in an easterly and westerly direction, and reaching to the base of the high mountains described.
Between Skidegate and Cape St. James there are more than thirty islands and islets, and bays, inlets, harbors, sounds and channels in great numbers.
Two broad channels are thus formed, by either of which the Mexican Gulf is entered.
Where there are no regular harbors the shore is indented with numerous deep channels forming inlets, safe only for native boatmen, as the winding course of the blue waters covers myriads of sunken rocks.
These channels are nearly of the same width, somewhat exceeding a hundred miles each, the northern passage being a few miles the broader.
I also knew that getting her back here through normal channels would be impossible.
The cable channels would be bidding for the footage.
The houses were not only carefully provided with deep cisterns for preserving rain water; they had also well-designed channels for carrying waste water away.
It is of close substance, the surface covered with shallow irregular sinuous channels and minute orifices.
Irregular shallow channels cover the hillocks, and converge to the apices.
Perhaps it only needs a leader to turn this store of energy into wider channels and to make it subservient to larger ends.
From these central keys a great sandy shoal spreads away on all sides, cut up, however, by several deep channels admitting vessels of the largest draught.
She inculcates it in the teachings of all her theologians and moral philosophers and in all her channels of education.
Nothing can so completely open the channels of communication with Him as an utter abandon of humility in His presence.
Prayer and faithfulness in the use of what I already have will keep the channels open.
Am I keeping the channels open through which the life and strength of the Body flow into the members?
In a letter to a friend, he says,-- "You can hardly imagine how completely I have turned my mind out of its usual channels during the last weeks.
If at any time we have more than is needed, the surplus flows off to other countries through the channels of international commerce.
Among those thousands of vessels many must, every year, have come to harm in those difficult channelsand treacherous seas.
Further, Holy Scripture distinctly exhibits to us the existence of channels of traditional knowledge severed from theirs.
For miles all round were marshes where nothing seemed to grow but tussocks of long wiry grass, with great pools and channels of dark water in between.
First, a low harsh growling from the tunnel by which we had entered, and that was the returning tide churning among the shingle and boulders in the rock channels outside.
He was an excellent sailor, and when he tired of a roving life turned his abilities to account in those peculiar channels of trade which the situation of the Islands and their ancient privileges particularly fitted them for.
Monsieur Torode was still leaning over the wall, and watching me fixedly, when I turned the corner of the outer ridge of rocks and crept away through the mazy channels towards Peter Port.
Is it not possible then that there may be even yet new channels dug out for consciousness, though we can detect no signs of them at present?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "channels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
