Sir William," said he, "it is my intention to attempt a small deed, and I ask you therefore that you will lead this outfall upon the camp.
At the same instant the Welshmen upon the left, led on by the Scotch earl, had charged out from among the rocks which sheltered them, and by the fury of their outfall had driven the Spaniards in front of them in headlong flight down the hill.
But there was no room on this cliffy shore, and Kevin was admonished in a vision to build in the open space by the outfall of the lower lake.
I think it must have been close to the outfall of the big drain, father.
John Marston was for going back to his lodgings near the outfall or gowt as it was termed; but the squire and Mrs Winthorpe would not hear of it, and to the boys' great delight, he stayed.
A very large portion of the sewage has to be lifted thirty-six feet to the outfall sewer.
In many towns, owing to high situation, or to a rapid inclination of surface, the outfall is naturally so good as to require but little attention.
Therefore, the system was designed so as to be capable of extension if necessary, and the sizes of the various tanks were limited at present, because of the septic processes which would be set up in the long length of outfall sewer.
For the purpose of obtaining a satisfactory effluent to discharge on the land without causing nuisance, the Company built a system of detritus chambers and liquefying tanks at the end of the outfall sewer.
The outfall sewer was accordingly designed to carry sufficient water and sewage to irrigate about 2,500 acres of land, which area could be considerably extended if necessary at any future time.
The long length of outfall required was justified by the cheap cost of the land and its excellent character for sewage irrigation.
The works for the outfall sewer were carried out satisfactorily under a contract with Mr. John Phillips, of Mexico City, the Company supplying the greater part of the materials.
I retired at once into ambush, from which I should assuredly have made a sudden outfall or sally, had the flour not so choked my breathing that I felt as though I had a two-pound loaf stuck in my gizzard.
Or does it assist us in fighting the army to have a strong town beside us, from which horse and foot can make an outfall upon our flank?
The extreme end of the outfall should be indicated by a can buoy similar to that shown in Fig.
The heavier matter in the sewage which flows along the invert will pass under the plate and be carried through to the outfall works, instead of escaping by the overflow, and perhaps creating a nuisance at that point.
The sea outfall should not be in the vicinity of the bathing grounds, the pier, or parts of the shore where visitors mostly congregate; it should not be near oyster beds or lobster grounds.
If there is any probability of sand drifting over the mouth of the outfall pipe, the latter will keep free much better if there is no valve.
That is to say, the sewage was proposed to be collected in a reservoir at the head of, and directly connected to, the outfall pipe, at the outlet end of which a flap valve was to be fixed.
The head which governs the discharge of a sea outfall pipe is measured from the surface of the sewage in the tank, sewer, or reservoir at the head of the outfall to the level of the sea.
The result of the improved outfall was what the engineer had predicted.
Indeed the sands were accumulating at such a rate, that the outfallof the Wisbeach River threatened to become completely destroyed.
But the opening of the Nene Outfall was only the first of a series of improvements which eventually included the whole of the valuable lands of the North Level, in the district situated between the Nene and the Welland.
A greatly improved outfall was secured by thus carrying.
For more than half a century Mr. Fellowes was chairman of the Commissions which had the management of the Middle Level and Ouse Outfall Works.
Now at the last Achilles' strong son marked How fast beside Scamander's outfall Greeks Were perishing.
I understand Babur to contrast the destination of the Saihun which he [erroneously] says sinks into the sands, with the outfall of e.
The first comprehensive scheme for regulating the outfall channels and controlling the currents of the Fen rivers seems to be that proposed by Nathaniel Kinderley in 1751.
In the bay of this headland, at the outfall of Thermodon, they ran ashore, for the sea was rough for their voyage.
And in the morning they saw Homole close at hand leaning on the sea, and skirted it, and not long after they were about to pass by the outfall of the river Amyrus.
And here is the outfall of the river Acheron which bursts its way through the headland and falls into the Eastern sea, and a hollow ravine brings it down from above.
Ardara stands near the outfall of the Ownea but actually on a smaller river, the Owentogher, which is not only very picturesque, but a good stream for salmon and sea trout, if only it could be preserved.
But can the mighty Well Stream of the Ouse, at its tidal outfall here, have ever suggested either drain or brook to the men of old who named the place?
The Nene still has its outfall here, and flows through the town in a fine sweep locally called the Brink.
The ancient outfall of these springs seems to have been by what is now called "Vicar's Brook," which is bridged by the London Road at the first milestone from Cambridge.
Wisbech, and forming the estuary for the united outfallof all the Fenland waterways.
At my side the great black torrent flowed on towards the outfall with deafening roar in that long, interminable tunnel beneath the Metropolis.
The outfall from this trap was by a terra-cotta pipe of considerable size, its opening at such a point that the drain-water in the trap never reached higher than a foot or so below the level of the cellar floor.
I came to rest, the sunlight dazzling my eyes, though the outfall was shaded by willows above the alders, and looked for Agathemer.
Agathemer threw the two copper cylinders, one after the other, neatly and deftly into the mouth of the outfall drain.
From there on we wriggled frantically till I could see ahead a round patch of light at the lower outfall of the drain.
I peered in and, after my eyes became accustomed to the gloom, descried the opening of the outfall drain opposite me.
Agathemer's plan implied that we must crawl a full furlong through the outfall drain.
The trap was cleaned by slaves so often that the ooze in it never rose high enough to escape down the outfall pipe and befoul the Bran Brook.
But I revived my memory of a bit of it, coming up in the morning from Caragh Lake to Killorglin, where we held our court, at the outfall of the Lowne which drains the lakes of Killarney.
