These are followed by fifty more on a higher level; and so on until all the sluices are carefully closed, with the exception of some which are left open for surplus water to pass through.
The water thus held back is not allowed to escape until May, when it is most wanted in the fields below the dam; and it is, of course, all gone by the beginning of July, when the sluices are gaping wide again to let the new floods pass.
As they are within reach of boisterous sea-water, there is an additional protecting gate in front of each, while between them and the shore there are three large sluices to regulate the passage of unusually heavy tides.
In the midst of the struggle the wind changed, bringing a thaw with it, and as the troops struggled on, blinded with the sleet and snow that now fell heavily, and benumbed with the cold, the men of the marshes opened the sluices in the dike.
He ought to speak, ought to open the sluices on the other side of which the flood of his passionate love must have gathered and risen high; but all the waters had trickled away, all the sources had dried up.
As if sluices in his being had been opened wide, Frederick began to speak freely of the shipwreck, to which he had never before more than merely alluded.
When the lock-men shut the gate behind the boat, and opened the sluices in the upper gate, the water rose slowly and steadily.
On the ebb tide this water is returned to the Mersey through large sluices at Randles Creek and at the junction of the river Weaver with the canal, the level of the canal thus being reduced to its normal height.
The sluices near the locks take the place of the weirs used in the old Mersey and Irwell navigation; they are 30 ft.
At the river Weaver ten Stoney roller sluices are built, each 30 ft.
In the former, we first find the fishers taking their prey with the hook and line, then with different kinds of nets, and lastly, placing the fish thus captured in sluices and ponds until they are wanted for consumption.
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish" (xix.
Noel wanted to very much; but I don't think it was altogether for generousness, but because he wanted to see how the sluices opened.
The water poured through the sluices all green and solid, as if it had been cut with a knife, and where it fell on the water underneath the white foam spread like a moving counterpane.
Some mischievous busybody went and opened the sluices and let all the water out.
I am certain this mud is the year’s deposit of the dirt that is separated from the gold in the sluices above at Placer Notch.
The sluices were opened on the banks of the river, and the water began to fill the canals quickly, and also the gigantic artificial lake, Moeris, in the province Fayum, celebrated for the beauty of its roses.
Oh, mayest thou follow in the steps of mighty pharaohs who built temples in all parts of Egypt, and through canals and sluices increased the area of fertile land in this country.
The massive gates are swung across, the sluices at the river-end eased to an outflow and, slowly, the great lock drains to the river level.
The great pumps now pulsate at full speed, drawing water to their sluices in an eddying current that spins the flotsam and bares ledge after ledge of the solid dock masonry.
Gradlon constantly bore round his neck a silver key which opened at the same time the vast sluices and the city gates.
A strong dike protected it from the ocean, the sluices only admitting sufficient water for the needs of the town.
It was then that the sluices were opened and their fertile lowlands flooded.
For Belgium, in desperation, last October opened the sluices and let in the sea.
His word to me was, 'If the water is as high as they say, don't waste time, but open the sluices and relieve the dam.
This operation showed all concerned what a giant they were dealing with; while the sluices were being lifted, the noise and tremor of the pipes were beyond experience and conception.
He came on the embankment, and signified a cold approval of the sluices being opened.
The sluices had been opened in the neighbourhood of Saftingen, on, the Flemish side, so that all the way from Hulst the waters were out, and flowed nearly to the gates of Antwerp.
Far below, on the opposite side of the river, other sluices had been opened, and the sea had burst over the wide, level plain.
There are dense growths of dogwood, gum, and beech, planted in sluices of water and bog; and their width varies from a half mile to four miles, while their length is upwards of sixteen miles.
Yes, but it is only the vibration caused by the water rushing through the open sluices on either side; they are open as wide as they will go, and have just been large enough to do their work well and keep the flood down.
Sluices and waterfalls were gushing down everywhere, making for the main stream, which added to the general roar of water as it rushed along, racing for the overcharged river far away.
The water's falling fast, and in half an hour I shall have the waste water-sluices closed, and by mid-day the stream will be running much as usual.
And the walls of Juvavum are falling, the moats are dry, the sluices destroyed; the rich people go away, there only remain poor wretches like ourselves, who cannot leave.
Oh, mayest Thou follow in the steps of mighty pharaohs who built temples in all parts of Egypt, and through canals and sluices increased the area of fertile land in this country.
The sluices had all fallen to bits, except on Hop Rabbit Creek.
You say that if the sluices are not opened the dam will burst?
Till the latter arrived the sluices were to be left open to drain off the heavy surplus of water.
Let me up, for Heaven's sake, Ramon, or if you will not let me do it, open the sluices yourself.
But at that moment the water from the fish-pond, whose sluices had been thrown wide open by old Paul, came rushing over the dike in such a volume as entirely to submerge the burning bridge and leave the duellists in darkness.
Richard's hastily formed plan was to push on past the mill and open the sluices on his way, thus flooding the narrow valley and cutting off his pursuers, who were seen to be Otto Palvicz's heavy cavalry.
The sluices and other apparatus of the miner are really nothing but the operations of nature imitated on a much smaller scale.
Steps or "drops" in thesluices help in the recovery of the gold.
Sluices are cleaned from the head downward, the blocks being taken up for that purpose.
Sluices have their maximum discharge when set straight.
The loss of quicksilver fed into sluiceswill vary, even under good management, from 11 per cent.
As an extra precaution, the sluices should be run full of gravel before shutting off the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sluices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
