The complete scheme provided water for fifty years in advance, and a maximum of 75 million gallons a day was taken into account, in addition to 27 million gallons for compensation water to the river.
As soon as we had entered upon the country road we found ourselves in a procession of cart men each drawing a load of six large covered receptacles of about ten gallons capacity, and filled with the city's waste.
The water is gathered from about four hundred springs in the neighbourhood of Vento, ten miles from the city; it is calculated that they will yield nearly forty millions of gallons every twenty-four hours.
It is so without sixty-five thousand gallons of whiskey.
While Old Phelps was pulling himself together, and we were wringing some gallons of water out of our blankets, we questioned the old man about the "squawk," and what bird was possessed of such a voice.
This two hundredgallons of beer cost altogether twenty shillings; but although he says his wife brewed it "once in a month," whether it lasted a whole month the parson does not say.
The amount of filtering earth should not be less than one cubic yard for eight gallons of sewage in twenty-four hours, in properly prepared soils; in some soils more than a cubic yard is required.
In America the distillation of the natural petroleum oils is carried out in cylindrical stills capable of holding as much as 1600 gallons each.
Then add the remainder of the 1000 gallons in such a way as to stir up and mix uniformly with the contents of the cistern.
The sweet liquor before fermentation commonly contains from 12 to 16% of saccharine, and every ten gallons yield from one to two gallons of rum.
Slake the lime and work up to a thin cream with water and pour into the cistern, which already contains at least 50 gallons of water to be softened.
The substitution of a few gallons of brandy for a portion of the rum, or the addition, after racking, of about 1 oz.
This preparation consists of a colourless solution of a non-volatile antiseptic, usually a salt of zinc, impregnated with eighty times its bulk of sulphurous acid gas; in other words, one pint of the liquid contains ten gallons of gas.
The directions are:--For every degree of hardness on Clarke's scale each 1000 gallons of water to be softened requires one ounce of quicklime.
If fifty pounds of sulfate are suspended in twenty-five gallons of water on an evening, each gallon of water will, when stirred the next morning, hold two pounds of sulfate.
If insects are to be destroyed at the same time, add about 4 ounces of paris green to each 50 gallons of Bordeaux.
If three gallons of this solution are put in the spray barrel, it is equivalent to six pounds of copper.
We found the spring without difficulty; it contained about forty gallons of muddy water, over which a thick green scum had gathered, and it was simply moving with animal life.
There war' six gallons between them all after supper," answered Satan, "but Ted took a drink since then.
The newly mixed vat is made in the following manner:-- In a convenient vessel 26 gallonsof water, 15 lb.
The best way of working the vat for wool is the following: 40 gallons of water heated to about 50° C.
To prepare this, take 10 gallons of the acid liquor, as prepared in the manner described above, and mix it with 48 lb.
The first tub is to contain 35 gallons water and 2 lb.
Indophenol are thoroughly ground into a paste with 7 gallons of water and 2 pints caustic soda lye of 72° Tw.
Jerry answered, to hear: "Ten gallons of gasoline, double strained, left here five minutes ago on a fast delivery truck.
And he'd die of fright if he should be caught with more than a hundredgallons at one time.
A shipment of eight gallons from New York to Washington for lecture purposes shrunk to three gallons in two days' time.
Two and three quarter gallons of creosote is a very good and suitable quantity for a 10 inch by 5 inch rectangular sleeper, but not more than half this quantity can be forced in if the sleeper is wet or unseasoned.
Take a leg of well-fed pork just as cut up, beat it and break the bone; set it over a gentle fire, with three gallons of water and simmer to one.
Boil slowly in three or four gallons of water down to three quarts; strain, and add six pounds of white sugar.
Then the tea in bonded warehouses was worth twenty-five millions of dollars; and there are ten millions of pounds of pepper, six millions of gallons of wine, and other things in proportion.
It discharges about forty gallons per minute, and was first brought into notice by sailors, who found it useful for scorbutic disorders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gallons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
