One mile above the basin or boat landing at Petersburg there were several locks through which boats were raised and lowered, and just below the locks there was a small creek, which ran through a stone culvert under the canal.
Nearly one thousand yards of culvertmasonry and three hundred yards of bank wall have been constructed, and from forty to fifty thousand yards of earth removed.
The bottom of the tunnel will contain a culvertthree feet deep at the centre.
Through this culvert the water from the tunnel is to be discharged.
He's at the culvert now, and if I do not run, he will go down into the swamp!
Beyond the culvert the road which I followed had likewise been worked up into a grade.
I did not reply I swung the horses around and crossed the culvert that bridges the master ditch.
A water culvert, for somewhat similar duty, may on occasion be so heavily reinforced as to carry railroad tracks with safety, as in a culvert for a Western railroad shown in an accompanying figure.
I had suffered so unspeakably that I resolved without more ado to excavate for myself a new habitation underground which in comparison with the culvert seemed a paradise to me.
It was only when a hard frost set in that I found an asylum in the culvert constructed to carry off the water from the Bermling lake.
My abode there was terribly irksome, for the culvert was not lofty enough to allow one to stand upright in it, and I was constrained to wriggle about in it, crawling or thrusting myself along with hands and feet.
These latter rushed to the entrance of the culvert and began snuffing about at it.
The other day I was walking along the wall, near the source of that little sandy rivulet which comes from the forest and enters the park through a culvert about five hundred feet from here,--you know it, madame?
Allowing him time to get through, they crawled through the hedge, up the embankment, over the line, and approaching the culvert from above, established themselves on top of the brickwork at the entrance.
They heard a low whistle, and were just in time to catch sight of the man disappearing into a culvert that carried the ditch under the embankment.
Naturally, if the Germans on the culvert thought that a car containing two German officers had been wrecked, they would come to the rescue.
At the bottom of that hill the railway crosses your road, and that culvert will be watched with especial care.
They rushed on toward the culvertfaster and faster.
The culvert Ivan spoke of must be at the bottom of this hill.
For the first time he took his eyes from the culvert itself and looked around.
For the first time he realized that the culvert was not quite at the bottom of the hill; that beyond it the road still bore downward quite sharply for a space, until it turned.
In this valley the wall is lower and thicker and less covered at the top with ivy, so that where the road rises over the culvert you can see into the park.
There is a culvert under the road, and on the opposite side the wall admits the stream by an arch jealously guarded by bars.
The outlet runs fairly straight through the grove--just barely enough drop of the ground level to carry it into the culvert near the fork.
Its outlet runs through the grove, into a culvertnear the fork of the highway.
For the greater portion of its length the water ran underground, emerging from the culvertsome two or three yards from the river.
The ground on either side at the end of the culvert was fully three feet above the water, the banks being nearly vertical, while the stream at the culvert's mouth was only about a foot wide.
Thus one was known as "Jack"; he almost invariably lay in a narrow outlet to a culvert that led the surplus water from the pool above under the roadway into the pool below the bridge.
She had almost reached the bridge crossing the culvert when she heard distressed screams of a child.
On the bridge crossing a deep culvert at the suburbs she glanced around, and then kneeling she thrust the lunch box between the foundation and the flooring.
The resistless path of the railroad will be stepped through here, the group of nodding pines will be gone, for a culvert will span the creek at this very point.
You ask for the file on that culvert at Jones' farm on the Martinsburgh branch, and an anaemic office-boy staggers toward you with enough manuscript to be the making of a novel.
They could sometimes, under high favor of fortune, push a dog into the Hydraulic, or get him to jump in after a stick; and then have the excitement of following him from one culvert to another, till he found a foothold and scrambled out.
I happened to be in the culvert at the time, but stepped out an' back across the brook, just to fling an eye along the embankment to see that all was clear.
Five or six men, hearin' the brakes, had followed me out of the culvert and stood by me, wonderin' why the stoppage was.
A gang of us had been sent down, two days before, to Treba meadow, to repair the culvert there.
Before their removal was carried into effect an appropriation should have been made by Congress sufficient to have located them in their new home, by building a comfortable home for the occupancy of every family of the tribe.
They have done considerable freighting with their teams, going sometimes a hundred miles away.
In 1867, four years after the completion, spurts of water showed themselves in the culvert in front of the puddle wall, which began to settle, and the water had to be drawn off to admit of repairs.
The arch of the culvert was not thirty feet away, but had we not been protected by the embankment we should have been beaten down and killed ere we reached its shelter.
A few hundred yards ahead was a stone culvert spanning the bed of a creek whose waters years before had been diverted to a reservoir a mile or so to the east.
With light hearts we waved farewell to the kindly old culvert and set our pace toward Woodvale.
Its path was less than half a mile in width, but I am convinced that its onward speed was comparatively slow else we would not have reached the culvert from the time I first saw it until its edge struck us.
As the recollection of this old culvert came to me I raised my eyes and saw something which drove the blood from my heart!
This is fresh water, from a spring somewhere, and through that ancient culvert there's probably a communication with the main sewer.
From the right the water rushed in with a swirling current, and by the opposite culvert it rushed out, gurgling and filling the arch almost to its keystone.
That culvert leads into the main sewer, so we must leave its exploration to the sewermen.
This can be arranged by placing at the lower end of the culvert close-fitting hinged-flap valves opening outwards.
The depth of the bed or invert of a culvert is a very important point.
It is a simple and comparatively inexpensive matter to rebuild a drain before the earth filling is brought forward, but it is a costly work to open out an embankment, and rebuild a culvert afterwards.
If, on the other hand, the invert be laid too low, it will gradually silt up to the level of the stream-bed alongside, and there will be so much of the culvert space lost for all practical purposes.
This party bombed Culvert and Dugout (where the suspected machine gun was).
The small party who raided the railway embankment bombed a culvert and dugout which was occupied.
A culvertat the bottom of the dam contained fine iron discharge pipes, each two feet in diameter, which could be opened at low water thus sending the contents of the reservoir to the canal at Johnstown.
In July, 1862, the culvert beneath it gave way, owing to some imperfection of the foundation.
But she may yet stop the train at the culvert bridge.
The culvert is dry nine mouths in the year, and is a raging mountain torrent only in the spring.
So absorbed is she in the thought of how to stop the train in the event of its passing the station that she fails to see a culvert bridge.
The culvert over the creek that he had watched Bess shy at and take in her own leisurely fashion a week before, was not half a mile from the outskirts of the township.
I got this," his hand went to his breast, "crossing the culvert over the creek.
Davey held his breath; he saw the mare buck and then take the log culvert over the creek two or three hundred yards from McNab's.
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