Let the sluice be, so His Honor can clane up some o' the riffles by himself.
You might try a pan from the riffles of the sluice, Mr. Greeley," suggested Mr. Byers.
By noon the riffles were filled with gravelly mud, and Harry decided that they should be cleaned.
They lugged the dirt on gunny sacking to the sluice, dumped the dirt into the running water, and while Harry stirred it Terry followed down along the sluice to throw out the rocks and clear the riffles or cross cleats.
For Mr. Greeley, after having deliberately selected the packed dirt from several of the riffles at the middle of the sluice, was proceeding to wash his pan at the ditch.
In August, 1868, I made acquaintance first with the pools and riffles in the vicinity of the old Brown and Stuart's ranche.
The weather giving fair promise, I started over the divide below the Springs to revisit several familiar pools and riffles down the Grand, in anticipation of a good morning's sport.
Hyla miotympanum, which is abundant at the type locality, lives in bushes and beneath rocks along the stream but usually is not found in the riffles inhabited by Hyla charadricola.
At the type locality, a shallow rocky stream in pine forest, Hyla charadricola was found beneath rocks at the edge of fast moving sections of the stream and beneath rocks in shallow riffles in the stream.
They held a surprising amount of sediment, because the stream that had emerged from the crack in the sluices had carried with it pebbles, sand, and all the concentration of the riffles at this point.
Should a sluice fall, the rushing stream carries out the gold which has lodged in the riffles and floods the bed-rock, raising havoc.
He peered down from the ledge and saw a broad, long pool formed by the ledge and fed by rushing riffles that curled around the upstream end of the ledge.
Toward the foot of the pool, just before it was gathered in by the riffles that drained it, the trunk of a leaning sycamore jutted out about six feet over the water.
The earth in suspension was run over artificialriffles against which the heavier gold collected.
The little five stamp-mill crunched away steadily; the water flowed; and in the riffles the heavy gold dust accumulated.
The gold is so heavy that it lodges against the riffles, but the water, swashing from side to side as it flows down, carries most of the sand and gravel over the riffles and out at the bottom.
On many of these riffles our boat stuck fast, and we dragged it over the rocks by sheer force, wading out and grasping it by the gunwale.
It was very dazzling to see the coarse gold that was scraped from the riffles of the sluice-boxes into the baking-powder cans which were used to store it.
Every little pool, depression, or riffleshas its school.
Nowhere else were such salmon to be speared as those which lay among the riffles at the head of the Apahoqui rapids.
The riffles were full of salmon, big, lusty fellows, who glided about the canoe on every side in an endless silver stream.
Set out at an early hour and proceeded on tolerably well the water still strong and some riffles as yesterday.
The banks crumbled, the gravel was washed into a string of sluices, or long boxes with riffles to catch the gold.
Water flows through the drum, and washes out the sand and bits of gold over large tables, where by means of riffles and quicksilver the gold is captured.
Although Austin lowered his voice, she drew nearer, prepared to take an intelligent interest in the "new riffles up on Skookum.
Gravid females and males in breeding condition were taken in riffles in Cedar Creek on April 2.
On May 31, collections from rifflesat station C-15 (upper Otter Creek) consisted almost entirely of these two species.
Pools and rifflesalong 1/4 mile of stream were seined in the early collections.
Pools andriffles below Tunnel Mill Dam at Winfield.
Etheostoma spectabile were taken in shallow pools and riffles in an extensive bedrock-riffle area on Cedar Creek near station C-12.
These riffles are placed equidistant from one another, and each is higher than the one next toward the lower end of the sluice.
The riffles are removed one by one and the sediment from each is taken into a separate bowl, and each is separately washed and cleansed in a bowl.
The Riffles were a series of shallow spots about two miles above the point, and from there on up was good fishing.
But the boys reached the Riffles a little while after this, and, in the excitement of hauling out a number of fish, for the sport was good, they forgot about the queer old man.
They tied their boat in a secluded place about a mile above the Riffles and then struck off through the woods.
The river near the Riffles ran through a dense woods which were seldom visited.
Our travel was now almost altogether on "overflow" ice, upon the surface of swift streams that freeze solidly over their riffles and shallows and thus deny passage under the ice to the water of fountains and springs that never ceases flowing.
But the river was very low and we had much trouble getting the boat over riffles and bars, so that it was late at night when we reached that other habitation of dragons known as Diamond City.
They seemed scarcely able to restrain themselves until the morrow, when they could joint their rods, wade the crystal water, and cast the Jock Scott or Silver Doctor into the riffles again and again in anticipation of a strike.
In shallow riffles the fish were so crowded that it was almost impossible to wade across the stream without being thrown by tramping upon them or tripped by others trying to get away.
It was a clear, spring-fed stream, and it purled down riffles that filled a deep pool.
The purling rifflessplashed and called and a breeze set the forest to sighing.
These riffles are occasioned by the water's running rapidly over {91} a rough hard bottom; they resemble the Falls, only they are much less.
This riffle was full of sunk logs, that made it difficult to pass, as the river was so low; at high water these riffles are not perceptible.
These traits, coupled with the long, muddy pools and infrequent riffles of the Wakarusa mainstream, provide a reasonable explanation of the comparatively slow rate of dispersal by the orangethroat darter.
The slender madtom is recorded only from riffles in Washington Creek below Lone Star Lake.
Gimme pole riffles with a little strap-iron on the top and if you can't ketch it with that you can't ketch it with nothin'.
If only the riffles were saving it and the tables catching the fine gold!
The final preparation before starting was to pour the mercury behind the riffles in the sluice-boxes.
A thin sheet of water flowed through the boxes, just sufficient to keep the sand and gravel moving down as he took up the riffles one at a time and recovered the mercury each had contained.
He took up riffles until it was a physical impossibility to work longer in the numbing water, his fingers could not hold the scoop.
At the end of the undercurrents there was a wide table having a slight grade, and this table was covered with canton flannel over which was placed more riffles of expanded metal.
There was cocoa matting under the riffles of the first six boxes.
It was a fine swift current, with a number of riffles but no bad water at any point.
What had been merely a swiftly-flowing river with a streak of silver riffles down the middle had changed to a tumultuous tumble of cascades that gleamed in solid white from bank to bank like the churned snow of a freshly descended avalanche.
At the first four or five riffles below the lake he called the turn correctly, landing, lining, crossing and running just where he should have done so.
Twice he linedriffles which it presently became plain we could have run, and then he all but failed to land above one where a well-masked "souse-hole" would have gulped the boat in one mouthful.
The distant roar augmented steadily after that, and the sharper grind of the more imminent riffles was never loud enough to drown it out entirely.
The head riffles of the third fall of Surprise Rapids began a little below our camp, so that we started lining almost immediately.
The foam-ruffles above even the sharpest of the riffles blurred like the streaking of clouded marble at a hundred feet, and it took the livest kind of a lookout to avoid the ones with teeth in them.
Save for two or three of the major riffles on the Big Bend of Canada, Spokane Rapids has a stretch of water that must go down hill just about as fast as any on all the Columbia.
I put on my "Gieve" and blew it up in anticipation of a stiff fight at Devil's Run, only to find just enough rocks and riffles there to make me certain of locating them.
There is a series of short, steep riffles here, extending for a mile and a half, and Earl slammed right down the lot of them on the high.
I had been a good deal concerned about how the sinister cascade of Rock Island was to be negotiated, to say nothing of the long series of riffles called Priest Rapids, which had even a worse record.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riffles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
