When the openings in the bulkhead are closed, the tunnel is protected from the inrush of water or soft ground, and the openings may be so regulated that control is maintained over the material passed through.
The first impulse of an inexperienced man, should he notice an inrush of water, would be to increase the air pressure, which might be a very dangerous thing to do.
Homer When the Law designs to get tremendous things out of a race of men, it goes to work this way and that, making straight the road for an inrush of important and awakened souls.
They had attempted to plug the hole with hammocks, but the inrushof water was too great.
Her engines were going half-speed astern in the hope of checking the inrush of water.
All the available pumps working continuously were sufficient to keep the remaining inrush of water well under control.
The slight reserve of buoyancy of the submarine was quickly destroyed by the inrush of water, both through the valves and through the huge rent in the base of the conning-tower.
Any moment might bring that inrush of evil from the gaol which would breed violence among these still peaceful folk; the ignorant, helpless folk who were being held captive by words against the coming of that inrush.
Each snipping off is of course followed by an inrush of air.
In well-preserved tins he would have found, not an outrush of gas, but an inrush of water.
The inrush of new settlers was enormous, [Footnote: McAfee MSS.
As he spoke there was a terrifying crash of glass and an inrush of water.
The electric lights had gone out, the sudden inrush of water having extinguished the furnaces.
The diving-tanks had not been filled, otherwise they would have heard the gurgling inrush of water.
So great was the inrush of water that Wakefield fancied he would be trapped by the miniature Niagara.
For a while the vessel's list was checked, until, under the action of the terrific inrush of water through her open sea-cocks, she lay completely over on her beam ends.
There was an explosion of terrific violence, which rent a great breach in the side of the ship near the starboard fore torpedo tube, caused an irresistible inrush of water, and compelled her captain also to slip his anchors and beach his ship.
The strong rooms were, for the most part, the strongest that modern engineering could devise, some with various arrangements by which all access was debarred by an inrush of water; but, alas!
The fore-compartment of the Kronprinz Wilhelm was riddled, and water was pouring into it at such a pace that the pumps could not keep the inrush down.
In 1890 theinrush of outsiders alarmed the Boers, and the franchise was raised so as to be only attainable by those who had lived fourteen years in the country.
Responding to the inrush of water the submarine heeled.
There was no need to wait, or to plant another shot, for the inrush of water had settled the fate of that submarine so speedily that there wasn't the slightest chance for any of the Huns to save themselves.
There was always the certainty that the inrush of water would be followed by an influx of poisonous gases.
At the Pelsall Hall colliery, which lay two or three miles from Walsall, there had been an inrush of water from some old deserted workings near at hand, and twenty-two miners were imprisoned.
To be out by dawn on the crisp October mornings, and to watch the vast inrush of birds to the English coast for hour after hour, is a treat no lover of birds can fail to appreciate.
The mighty inrush of birds must be seen to be properly appreciated.
In spite of their efforts, the French Generals did not succeed in stopping the furious inrush of the invaders.
The flask was opened after seventy-two hours, when there seemed to be only a very slight inrush of air.
The essence of it was that it was like the inrush of some moving tide through an open sluice-gate.
X WITH MAUD ALONE They were suddenly interrupted by the inrush of the Vicar.
Two of the canoemen with their paddles held her head on, while the other two, with the help of Chloe and Big Lena endeavoured to stay the inrush of water with blankets and fragments of clothing.
Pravda adds that “this inrush of the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie that formerly considered the Communists as its enemies, is not at all to our interest.
