A suitable low-lying site is picked, and the earth is scooped out and banked up at the end and sides, so there is a hole into which the rainwater runs, following the natural lay of the country, and assisted and directed by drains and gutters.
For domestic use galvanised tanks are depended upon, being placed to catch the rainwater off the rooms of the homestead buildings.
Then we went to a pool of rainwater that lay in a hollow rock near by, and drank our fill, for we were very thirsty.
By the aid of some scanty pools of rainwater trapped in some rocks, he succeeded in getting a short distance farther on foot, and in reaching a low range.
There was neither grass nor water; the very rainwater turned salt after lying a short time on the saline soil.
Remember that the plain question is this--The rainwater comes down from heaven as water, and nothing but water.
We came thus upon some rainwater in the clay of the plains which, being sufficient to satisfy the bullocks, we gladly availed ourselves of the opportunity it afforded of watering them without unyoking.
When we were within two miles of those trees we found enough of rainwater in a shallow hole to refresh our horses, but it was surrounded with such tempting grass that the animals preferred the verdure to it.
Potholes, as shown in figure 18A, may be formed in relatively flat beds by the dissolving action of repeated accumulations of rainwater or snowmelt, even in arid regions like the Plateau.
Even rainwater and snow contain a little carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere--enough to dissolve small amounts of limestone or of calcite cement from sandstone.
Common yellow soap is better than scented soap, and rainwater than ordinary water.
The balls have to be soaked for two or three hours in water (rainwater if possible) and then drained and hung up in a window where there is not too much sun.
I heard Jarvis explaining that an empty pork-tub, with a tarpauling inside of it, would hold quite a deal of the rainwater washing above the bottom-boards.
My shoulder-blade encountered the sharp edge of a rainwater pipe.
In securing it I found that it had lost its bung and was almost empty: but that hardly seemed worth mentioning, with such a flood of rainwater washing around.
Lead pipes will be eaten away by water containing free oxygen without carbonic acid, therefore pure rainwater injures lead pipes.
In most leaves you will find that rainwater is intended to run in a particular direction.
Perhaps of more importance are the bacteria-germs, and dissolved mineral salts in the rainwater as it trickles down from the surface.
Those whose hair turned grey could employ the following prescription:-- "Leaves of Mulberry sod in rainwater maketh black hair.
Rainwater falling upon it was all retained, and very little could get away, for the Sphagnum carpet is just like a huge sponge soaking up and retaining the water.
In the displuviate, there are beams which slope outwards, supporting the roof and throwing the rainwater off.
Those that are over the columns should have holes bored through them to the gutter which receives the rainwater from the tiles, but those between them should be solid.
At noon passed a shallow pool of rainwater in a slight depression of the plain, and shortly after crossed two small watercourses trending west; a little brackish water remained in the deeper portions of their channels.
A little further on the plain became more fertile, and we found a small pool of rainwater in the clay, at which we encamped.
Water became very scarce in the channels of the river, and we were principally dependent on small puddles of rainwater from a recent thunder-shower; but as we approached the northern bend some fine reaches of water were passed.
In the lower parts of the flat rainwater appeared to have remained in shallow clay-pans until very recently, killing much of the grass, which was replaced by atriplex bushes.
Rainwater grew to manhood in Arkansas and acquired his education in the public schools there.
Mr. Rainwater is a stanch republican in politics and served ably as member of the city council of Dayton and for a number of years was a member of the school board.
Rainwater a matter of personal experience, as he settled upon the site of Dayton when it was government land as yet untouched by the hand of man.
It appeared to Cook that, although these spouts reached the clouds, it was not from the rainwater of the clouds being drawn down to them, but by the column of whirling water ascending from the sea to the clouds above.
