The commissioners derive their authority from the Sewers Commission Acts, which date from the time of Henry VIII.
It is unnecessary, however, to consider in any detail the powers exercised by commissioners ofsewers in the few areas under their control.
The district council are required to cause to be made such sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district.
Thus a joint sewerage board would generally be invested by the order with all the powers of a district council relating to the provision and control of sewers and the disposal of sewage.
The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off bysewers 2.
A workman employed in cleaning sewers by flushing them with water.
Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.
In modern times we have undermined the natural defences of the Rive Gauche by bringing our railways to the center of the city, by our sewers and by the subways.
Sewers began to burst in all quarters of the city.
So heavy was the rainfall that sewers were bursting and new excavations for subway extension were caving in.
Compelling property owners to connect with a publicly maintained system of sewers and enforcing that duty by criminal penalties does not violate the due process clause.
The vaults of burnt brick, though set without cement, have remained unshaken and close in their joints, and the sewers they inclose are the only voids that have remained clear in the ruins of the buildings to which they belong.
Place and Thomas in our explanation of a curious system of sewersthat does, perhaps, more honour to the Ninevite builder than any other part of his work.
The consequence of this was, that, especially in sewers carrying but little water, the solid matters contained in the sewage were deposited by the sluggish flow, frequently causing the entire obstruction of the passages.
The houses had cess-pools beneath them, which were filled with the accumulations of many years, while the sewers themselves were scarcely less offensive.
There are 82 miles of main intercepting sewers in London.
Sewers are less important than the House-Drains and Water-Closets, and if not carrying much water, may become cess-pools.
An example of the difference between the old and modern styles of sewers is found in the drainage of the Westminster School buildings, etc.
The sewers have a length of about two thousand miles, and are equal to one hundred and eighty-two sewers eleven miles in length, on an average of one hundred and six yards apart.
Wait until we get a chance at the ballot-box, I tell grandma, and see if we don't wash out the sewers before they reach the aqueduct!
SEVEN million little openings, God has made upon your skin; Mouths of tiny little sewers That run everywhere, within.
And along these numeroussewers All impurities must go, That are not by other outlets, Carried off with active flow.
It is equally futile to pour carbolic acid into sewers or to stand it around on the mantelpiece for the purpose of disinfecting a room.
No evidence can be found that men who work in sewers and who breathe sewer air all the time are especially unhealthy.
The plan was to construct some 70 odd miles of gigantic sewers on either side of the Thames.
As the sewers on the north side of the river get more near to the sea, they can be seen.
The collecteurs, as well as the smaller sewers of the streets and houses, are constructed of masonry laid in mortar, and they are lined with cement which insures their cleanliness and their sonorousness.
The first principle of Belgrand's system was to avoid any discharge from the sewers into the river during its course through Paris.
Sewers were constructed also in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple and Rue de Turenne, the open ditch Guenegaud was covered over, and the Invalides and the Ecole militaire were supplied with water.
An analysis of the air of these sewersgives surprising results.
Countless numbers of Jews were liquidated in sewers and bunkers through blasting.
Tear gas bombs were thrown into the manholes, and the Jews driven out of the sewers and captured.
Life in the sewers was not pleasant after the first week.
It had been found necessary to include under one body all the unconnected Commissions of Sewers for the Metropolis, and Lord Morpeth requested me to be a member.
The sewers of those days were banked-up watercourses, or shores, as the word was pronounced, which ran uncovered down the various declivities of the city to the town ditch and to the Thames.
Ferdinand, as one of the sewers passed through, bearing some dishes.
They watched the daily horoscopes intently for the Bad Days, realizing that what was bad for the normal people must be a field day for themselves, and they issued out of the sewers periodically on binges of robbery, kidnapping, and worse.
There were nosewers and no adequate pavement until 1616.
Every tailor admitted to the guild had to pay a fine as entrance fee to the Mayor and another to the community, as well as his payment to the Guild; and paid a yearly fee to the town for any sewers and apprentices whom he employed.
Quarrels between shapers and sewers were to be settled by the Mayor and the head men of the craft.
The master and wardens sat every Thursday at nine o’clock to do business, and general meetings of the wardens and shop-holders were held four times a year, where after they had dined the free sewers were given the remains of the feast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sewers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
