The miner of the Middle Ages made many soughs todrain away the water from the mines, and we saw more of the tunnels that had been made to draw air to the furnaces when wood was used for smelting the lead.
And when the decks were fairly cleared And not a remnant nigh, They drank as if their mighty thirst Would drain the ocean dry.
Water, the fresh, Is drunk by the fish-- The trout and the merlin; But we boys gay and bold At the board Drain waves of the wine untold.
Let quiddities alone, they are dry-bone vampires, that drain you of your blood without growing fatter themselves.
Mr. Bernard felt, at first, as one does who sees a gray rat steal out of a drain and begin gnawing at the bark of some tree loaded with fruit or blossoms, which he will soon girdle, if he is let alone.
No sinful purple here shall stain, Nor juice profane these grapes afford; But reverent lips their sweetness drain Around the table of the Lord.
Fry at once in very hot fat and drainon unglazed paper.
Parboil 1 cup of rice for 10 minutes in boiling water, then drain and rinse with cold water.
Soak 3 cups of dried apples over night; drain the water off and cut them up a little and put them over the fire with 2 cups of molasses; boil until thick; take off the fire and put into a bowl.
Boil 1 cup of rice rapidly for half an hour, drain in a colander and stand in the oven for a few minutes to dry out the rice.
Drain and rub off the inner skin and cook until tender in good stock, drain and rub them through a fine sieve.
Drain on soft paper, then insert a short piece of macaroni in the pointed end of each fillet and cover this with a paper frill.
Put on in a kettle of cold water with 1 teaspoonful of salt and simmer slowly until very tender, drain and rub through a sieve, then set aside until cold.
In the morning drain and cover with fresh cold water, boil an hour, drain again; just cover with fresh water; add quarter of a teaspoonful of cooking soda, 1 lb.
Boil the roe for 15 minutes in salted water; then drain and mash.
When cooked, drainand put into a thick white sauce, to which add a little cayenne pepper and a very little anchovy sauce.
Boil a cauliflower, drain well and put it on a round platter.
In the Middle Ages, Du Cange says that these men swarmed so about the houses and courts of the great, and princes spent such large sums on them, as completely to drain their coffers.
Her home-made evening dress did not become her, and the Indian sun had begun to drain the colour from her cheeks.
There is the lake, there is the great drain for its waters, so strangely interwoven with the tale of Veii.
But no one, we may suppose, wished at any time to drainthe Alban lake, but only to keep it in order.
Why, if I were to drain that lying hound's blood, drop by drop, he would be in my debt still!
The drainon this nourishment is slow, as it necessarily must be, for this single source of food must last for a period of perhaps 5 months.
I am reminded of an old female who every year whelped her young in the mouth of a tile drain which drained a marshy piece of ground that had since become dry.
This is because these busy engineers not only impose a tremendous drain on the surrounding area for material, very often they also radically alter the character of the terrain to fit their own needs.
The most remarkable circumstance of all was, that Parliament, after its experience of the drain which these French wars had been to the blood and resources of the nation, received the king's proposal with cordial approbation.
It accorded, however, with Henry's ideas, and was so far beneficial as to induce the settling of English merchants in foreign countries, with the object of endeavouring to drain them of their wealth.
The multitude next proceeded to devour a pile of loaves, and to drain accumulated pitchers of beer, supplied by the neighbouring governors.
It was known he supported two old-maid sisters, the Misses Hadow, the impoverished daughters of his first commander; but in view of his considerable private fortune this drain on his resources seemed scarcely the reason of his renunciation.
Not content with rendering my days a life's misery, you must also drain me of the money I had worked hard to save.
The demand came after the Saladin taxes, the drain for the Crusade, for the king's ransom, and during the building of the cathedral.
They had no idea that the Spaniards would actually attempt this, but this the conquistadores did, and were digging in order, apparently, to drain the water off when the sides fell in and put an end to the attempt.
Mr. Fergusson supposes that they might be intended to drain the walls themselves and keep them dry.
The efficiency of a drain or sewer depends upon its capacity, its slope or incline, and the velocity of its flow.
Not only should the outlet of the kitchen drain be kept away from the well or cistern, but no part of the drain pipe should come within twenty feet of it.
If the soil is wet or springy, a drain of ordinary field tile of small size should be laid all around the inside of the cellar walls, and, together with the rest of the cellar floor, should be covered with concrete.
Every drain pipe leading to cess-pool or sewer should be connected with a ventilating shaft which will carry the foul vapors above the roof of the house, and as far away from the windows as possible.
An experienced engineer gives a velocity of three feet per second as the least that should be allowed for the outlet drain of a house.
Cook macaroni in boiling salted water twenty minutes or until soft, drain in a strainer, pour cold water over it to remove stickiness.
Shape in balls, place these in a wire frying basket, lower the basket into hot fat until the balls brown, lift the basket, drain, and drain the balls on paper.
When the potatoes are mellow, drain off the water, and set the kettle where the remaining moisture will steam off.
Drain off the water very thoroughly and shake the stewpan over the fire to dry the contents.
Drain and add to white sauce seasoned with celery salt.
Pick over and wash the tapioca, drain off the water and add tapioca to the milk and salt scalded in the double boiler, and cook until the tapioca is transparent, or about 1/2 hour.
Certainly he could not doubt that her energies had been subjected to a drain no less severe than he had suffered.
Though they had been filled only the day before, he had no clear notion of the horse-power of the motor or its hourly consumption of gasoline; and the drain upon the supply could not have been anything but extraordinary.
I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd's anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left; and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small.
Drain the oysters when fried on heavy, brown paper, to absorb any remaining fat, and serve at once.
The next morning drain the tapioca, boil 1 quart of sweet milk, beat the yolks of 4 eggs light, stir them into the tapioca, adding 4 tablespoonfuls of sugar.
When cakes are a rich brown, take from fat, drain well on coarse, brown paper, and when cool dust with pulverized sugar and place in a covered stone jar.
Drain and pour cold water over them, when the skin may be easily removed.
Drain on paper and serve on platter garnished with parsley.
Take from the vinegar and drain well, then put into stone crocks in layers, with sugar, allowing 1 pound of sugar to 1 pound of cherries.
In the morning put on the range, the vegetables in agate kettle, let boil a few minutes, then drain well.
The directions Damerel gave to the workmen that afternoon were so injudicious, that his master happening to overhear him tell a ditcher to fill up a drain which ought to have been opened, gave him a severe reprimand.
The assassin escaped over a draininto a back-street; but having been recognised, was subsequently captured.
Then all disappeared again into the band-box, a drain was taken out of the bottle whilst she listened to steps on the stairs, and she had just time to get back to her chair when the doctor entered.
One morning, just as I was sitting down to breakfast, my convict orderly came running to me and said that a large 'cobra' had crawled up the drain leading from the main drainat the back of the house to the bath room.
The convict, then, with a pickaxe, loosened a brick from the covering of the drain close to the wall of the house, while I stirred up the bamboo rod.
CUT the tails into joints, and blanch and wash them; then braise them till tender, drain them dry, and serve them up with haricot sauce over.
Have ready boiling lard, fry them of a nice colour, drain them dry, and serve them up with fried parsley under.
TAKE either lemon or orange peels well cleaned from the pulp, and lay them in salt and water for two days; then scald and drain them dry, put them into a thin syrup, and boil them till they look clear.
CUT a piece of breast of veal into tendrons, and fry them in a little lard till of a light colour; then drain them dry, add currie powder, and proceed with the same directions as for chicken currie.
CUT celery heads two inches long then, some of the white part into small pieces; wash, blanch, and drain it, and put to it three quarts of cleared stock.
TAKE fresh gathered parsley, pick, wash, and drain it very dry with a cloth.
Have ready boiling lard, put into it pieces of the mixture of the bigness of a damson; fry them of a light brown colour, drain them, and serve them up with sifted sugar over.
TAKE large white cabbages when in season, cut them into halves, and then into slips; wash them clean and drain them dry.
