It is like a swelling river, or a high spring tide, it goes over all banks, since the state and church have drawn the sluice and let it out.
Therefore are reins loosed to corruption, and a sluice opened that it may come out—that he who would not see his own image in another’s face, may behold it in the glass of his own abominations.
Time and temptation hath but uncovered the heart, and made the inside out, hath but opened a sluice to let out this sea of corruption.
Early in July each year, everysluice is opened to its widest, the iron doors being lifted as high as they will go.
This had what is called a sluice valve, and Lambert had been instructed to turn the screw which closed it round and round, until he found he could turn it no farther; when that was done, he would know that it was shut.
Then the secret came out: no one had told Lambert that the sluice valve had a left-handed screw, and that, therefore, to close it he would have to turn it in the opposite direction to the usual one.
A night or two ago," writes Commander Geynet, "I was ordered to blow up the sluice in front of me.
The road from Plaistow Hall to Denvir Sluice was not in itself interesting.
Then he started, and did walk to Denvir Sluice and back in three hours.
He merely went around in his cheerful way from day to day working vigorously with his men until, finally, early in September, the last of the pay dirt was washed from the dumps into the sluice boxes and the gold sacked and taken to the bank.
But the warmth on the loss of Minorca has opened every sluice of opposition that has been so long dammed up.
I have told you what I think ought to sluice my public eye; and your private eye too will moisten, when I tell you that poor Miss Harriet Montagu is dead.
When the coal is to be washed, it drops to the sluice box, where it is mixed with the water and sluiced to the jigs.
The defenders were then recalled to the fort, the sluice gates were opened, and the waters of the Scheldt, swollen by a high tide, poured over the country.
Halfway along this neck of land there was a cut, with sluice works, by which the surrounding country could be inundated.
It is a striking sight to be on the Sluice at high water and gaze at the sea waves ridging up this old river with force that seems illimitable.
From the bridge over the Ouse by the Earith sluice we see the sea-board (for that and nothing less is the word which its appearance irresistibly suggests) of the Island of Ely, rising before us, with a couple of miles of level fen between.
This magnificent Sluice is the keystone of the whole drainage scheme of the fenland.
Still more striking is it to be on the Sluice when the spring tides are on, and see the sea on the north of the Sluice standing fifteen or twenty feet higher than the fresh waters on the south.
When this first sluicewas "blown up" by the tide in 1713 there were loud rejoicings.
One realises what widespread disaster would ensue if the Sluice were to give way.
From some river gold found with them, they were supposed to be part of the gang of sluice robbers who infested the locality some years ago, and were hiding from the Vigilants.
It was the figure of Spanish Pete, a notorious desperado andsluice robber!
The bags before him were the spoils of the sluice robber,--spoils that could not be sold or even shown in the district without danger, spoils kept until they could be taken to Marysville or Sacramento for disposal.
This lake is partly artificial, as it is pent in by embankments with sluice gates, the system of which, however, I am unacquainted with.
We turned up a canal, and passing under some beautiful trees, the air fresh and pure, lending a charm to everything, we entered a sort of sluice gate by which the waters of the Dal have exit, passing through this channel to the Jhelum.
Moreover, I put the spar well away; and then, with a sluice of water, I fetched his Reverence back to himself again.
Gold mining is here carried on with much success; and it was interesting to see the lines of sluice boxes running through the streets of Jacksonville that turned out as pretty gold as any mine on the coast.
Paddy Magragh in his cabin also heard the storm roaring outside, and remembered that he had left the sluice of the reservoir closed; but he dismissed the thought with a characteristic 'time enough to-morrow.
He caught the little brook which trickled through Vix's drain from St. Bridget's Tower to the bog, and turned its course into the big cement basin, leading off the water by a sluice into a new channel.
The sluice was shut fast, but the brown water squirted through the chinks and danced down the hill.
Along this part of the bank, some twenty feet above them, ran a mill-race, which a few yards lower down communicated by means of a sluice with the river.
Suddenly, as they rounded the corner of a rock, a great roar of falling water burst on their ears, and they started in dismay, "The sluice is up!
Meantime Curly had scrambled on shore and climbed up to the mill-race, where he shut down the sluice hard.
This sluice was now open, for, from the late rains, there was too much water; and the surplus rushed from the race into the Glamour in a foaming cataract.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Mining) Defn: A flume or sluicein which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Defn: A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.
Defn: A sluicein embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.
Defn: To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge.
He finished his strictly utilitarian household labor and went off up the flat to the sluice boxes.
An axe, a big jack-knife, a hammer and some nails left over from building their sluice boxes, these were the tools.
In some cases this valve is a sluice valve, but the hot well is then almost sure to be split, if the engine be set on without the valve having been opened.
The steam is admitted to and from the cylinder by means of a slide or sluice valve?
He shook his head ruefully, and, pointing to a sluice hole in the side, said he judged it must be all over with us when the water entered there.
And so, giving my arm a squeeze as he slips his hand from my shoulder, he went to the fore part of the vessel, while I crossed to the sluice hole, where the water was spurting through a chink.
I'll see how our sheet hangs; do you look if the water comes in yet at the sluice hole.
So having nothing left on deck, we went into the cabin on a pretence of seeing how Moll fared, and Jack sneaked away an old jacket and I a stone bottle, and with these we stopped the sluice hole the best we could.
A song sang by a California miner who went by the euphonious sobriquet of "Sluice Box," never failed to elicit encore.
Here, Dusty, my prince, now then, sluice your bolt.
With all my heart, only let me sluice my whistle first.
