A score of Indians stood watching them, stolidly smoking stone pipes and holding their blankets close around them.
Most of them had lighted their pipesbefore sitting down, and now they puffed in silence.
They held their blankets close, and puffed deliberately at their pipes with hardly a movement of the lips.
There was a silence, and the pipes glowed in the dusk; then the Long Arrow rose.
It was our duty to keep the pipes and connections clear, for the water sucked up from the sea often contains foreign substances.
At "A" Beach I examined thepipes and tanks of the water-supply system and had a chat with the Australians who were in charge.
Pipes and cigarettes were freely smoked, a good sign on the first day of a voyage.
Their masks were attached by rubber tubes to pipes running from the oxygen storage tanks.
People who open secret cargoes also put emery in engines, cut fuelpipes and all that.
When the gas vein was unexpectedly tapped late in the afternoon, the drill pipes had been blown out and the escaping gas, igniting from the near-by boiler, had consumed the derrick.
For the moment their pipes reposed in their vest pockets.
Instantly from between thepipes and crates on the forward boat a dozen half-breeds crawled sleepily forth.
It was plain that both the Indians had been drinking, but there was no liquor now in sight, and the three were enjoying their pipes and their cigarettes.
Sitting idly on the bank, cutting new pipes of tobacco or breaking twigs, with slow guttural exclamations they directed the work to be done.
The horses of these burghers were well bred and in good condition, and, although their clothes were threadbare, they seemed cheerful enough, smoking their pipes and cracking their jokes.
One such gentleman came to breakfast one day, bringing as a gift two curious antique pipes and a pouch of Boer tobacco.
The pipes were awarded a place in a glass cabinet, and the giver most heartily thanked; he finally departed, well pleased with himself.
Before retiring to rest, they produced their pipes and foul-smelling Boer tobacco, proceeding to light up just under my windows, meanwhile talking their unmusical language with great volubility.
The company's responsibility ends just inside the meter, and from that point the consumer must provide satisfactory appliances, giving the same attention to the gas pipes as he gives to the plumbing.
Then up and spoke the plumbyers bold, Which was laying the pipes for the hot and cold: 'Since you with us have made so free, Will you kindly say what your name might be?
When a projection in the bore-hole obstructs the downward course of the lining tubes, the hole can be enlarged below the pipes by means of a rimer, Fig.
The annular space between the leaden and copper pipes at g is filled with a packing of hemp.
Chaudron has, by this tool, raised a column of pipes 295 feet in length and 8 inches in diameter.
The pump is then removed from the cleaning pipe, and the cleaning pipes are withdrawn piece by piece; and finally the pump is screwed on to the upper end of the tube well, Fig.
The cleaning pipes are of small diameter, 1/2-inch externally, and the several lengths are connected together in the same way as the well tubes, by collars screwing on over the adjoining end of two pipes.
The bore-hole is lined throughout with pipes of 6 inches, 5 inches, and 4 inches diameter respectively.
When you drink water to quench your thirst, the thin liquid goes down into your digesting bag, and is then directly sucked up into the supply-pipes which run about all over its inside.
If any one separates the cast little ropes or congeries of the pulmonarypipes with a fine needle, he will very distinctly see the branches and ramifications of these several pipes, and also their annular composition[479].
But this is not the whole of these wonders; for at the same time some hundreds of pulmonary pipes within the body of the worm cast also each its delicate and tender skin.
Two other branches of the pulmonary pipes that are smaller, and have no points of respiration, cast a skin likewise.
This board covering over the pipes also serves to hold the heat and thus forms hovers.
Heat is furnished by means of a coal burning stove which heats water and causes it to circulate through pipes run the length of the house.
Ordinary water just as it comes from the pipes is commonly used and is applied by means of a spray nozzle attached to a hose.
A low partition is run lengthwise of the house dividing the pipes and thus forming double pens, half extending from the center to the front and half from the center to the rear of the house.
Heat for the brooder houses is supplied by means of hot water pipes and a coal burning stove such as are used in brooder houses for chickens.
In all three of the brooder houses the young ducks are supplied with their drinking water from pipes through the houses.
The hot water pipes are carried down the center of the house and the return pipes are located in the same place.
Of course we had pipes and coffee, and he pressed me to stay some days, to eat with him every day and to accept all his house contained.
In the boat Achmet is enough under Omar; but in this large dusty house, and with errands to run, and comers and goers to look after, pipes and coffee and the like, it takes two boys to be comfortable.
Of course all rushed upstairs, and my old washerwoman was put to great expense in pipes and coffee.
When my party had said a Fattah for me and another for my family, we retired to another kubbeh, where there was no tomb, and where we found the Mufti, and sat there all the evening over coffee and pipes and talk.
The places where those openings were made in the underground passages were in St. Joseph street for the water pipes; and for the gas pipes in Notre-Dame street, near Sacrament street, at a short distance from the Seminary.
That fact I know by ocular demonstration, and which nine tenths of the Canadians also will not deny, for it has been opened several times by the labourers, who have been digging for the purpose of laying pipes to conduct gas and water.
This had two arched ribs formed by the cast ironpipes through which the water passed.
They were dressed in blanket coats, handsomely ornamented, and bound at the waist with sashes of gay colors, in which long knives and tobacco-pouches of marten fur were stuck, and they smoked black pipes as they strolled leisurely along.
Of an evening they spread blankets on the floor, and sat there with their pipes and "fire-water," like gentle savages as they were.
Captain Bird, and the other elderly mariners took their pipesfrom their mouths.
Captain Bird, the hand which, had been holding his pipe a few inches from his mouth now dropping to his knee; and at this motion the hands which held the pipes of the three other mariners dropped to their knees.
In the hotter regions many covered compensation reservoirs are provided, and these make good the wastage caused by excessive evaporation where pipescannot be used.
The upper layer of soil is very porous, and the water soaks along it," he answered; adding that "where necessary it was assisted by porous pipes laid beneath the surface.
The water all finds its way out by the pockets of the vaults, and by pipes through the buttresses with gurgoyles in front of them.
The great organ is on the north side of the Coro; it is not very old, but its pipes are picturesquely arranged, and it has enormous painted wings or shutters.
In the same picture he painted Pan, the God, according to the poets, of shepherds, with certain pipes made of the bark of trees, as it were consecrated to him as votive offerings by shepherds who have been victorious in playing them.
The canal is protected by a lining of heavy masonry, which is pierced at its upper end by a number of gateways; through these water is admitted by short canals to pits emptying into huge steel pipes or penstocks, as they are called.
These underground pipes conduct the water along the shore of the river to the power house situated on the lower level.
What a melody of oaten reeds and Zamora pipesshall we have resounding in the air!
All pipes are conveyed along the subways, and enter each house from beneath.
All the night the smoke-pipes were batting against the boughs of oak and cottonwood, and snapping the trailing vines.
The boughs hammered at the smoke-pipes until they went by the board, and the pilothouse fell like a pack of cards on the deck before they had gone three miles and a half.
Now Steenie was a kind of favourite with his master, and kend a' the folk about the castle, and was often sent for to play the pipes when they were at their merriment.
MacCallum brought a pair of pipes might have served the piper of Donald of the Isles.
The brine is first pumped into a reservoir and taken by pipes to large shallow salt-pans heated by furnaces beneath them.
The salt is brought in the form of brine direct from Northwich to the works by pipes laid underground, a great saving of money, for salt is heavy and costly to carry.
The pipes were taken from the organ of Budworth Church, and the stained glass windows of Tarvin destroyed by the Puritan fanatic, John Bruen.
The Dominicans were also skilful engineers, and Edward the First employed them in making wells and laying water-pipes in the city.
Nowadays, however, owing to the greater supply of water brought by pipes from a distance, mills are erected principally on the outskirts of the great towns and nearer the centres of population.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pipes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
