When the kettle is boiling and sending steam from its spout gently raise the lid and then shut it down again deftly.
This will force the steam rapidly from the spout in the shape of very pretty rings which will rise in the air, growing larger and larger.
Accordingly Erichsen did not try to alter the course of the Slavonia; indeed, he would not have altered it had he known ship and spout were sure to meet, for he had encountered waterspouts before and wasn't afraid of them.
It soon became evident that the spout could not get by before the Slavonia reached it, and it was now too late to slow up--indeed, a collision was manifestly unavoidable from the start.
As they were looking a spout of water rose in the air.
There was a white spout of water, and it was gone.
To north and south and west lay a skyline which was unbroken save by the spout of foam when two of the great Atlantic seas dashed each other into spray.
Then he set a large wooden bucket under the spout and began to pump.
No water came, but after a few moments a gold piece dropped from the spout of the pump, and then another, and another, until several handfuls of gold lay in a little heap upon the ground.
You desert and play the vagabond and spout such tomfoolery as we hear when you are brought to task.
A spout of white flame, streaked with green, dashed past the widow but shivered a statue on the balcony; then after a prodigious ripping and splitting sound, it bounded upward and vanished like a meteor.
In the centre was a large pump with a great leaden spout that had a hole bored in it at the side.
The iron stoppers being taken out of the mouths of the pipes, the sulphur is allowed to run along an iron spout placed over red-hot charcoal, into the appropriate wooden moulds.
The pyrolignite of lime, is made by boiling the pyrolignous acid in a large copper, which has a sloping spout at its lip, by which the tarry scum freely flows over, as it froths up with the heat.
They are filled by means of a wooden spout terminated by a canvas hose; through which 10 cwts.
By this means, when the screw is turned round by the wheels E F, or by any other means, it raises up the malt from the box d, and delivers it at the spout G.
They are placed four together, and to each four a common spout is provided to carry off the yeast, and conduct it into the troughs n, placed beneath.
Mottling is usually given in the London soap-works, by introducing into the nearly finished soap in the pan a certain quantity of the strong lye of crude soda, through the rose spout of a watering-can.
They are furnished with a spout or lip for pouring out the metal, and with two ears, on which the tongs of the crane lay hold in lifting them out of the furnace.
A hole is dug in the earth, immediately below the spoutof the conductor, to receive the pot.
He flung the Winchester to his shoulder, and a spout of fire streamed from the muzzle in an instant.
Jaggers flung up his hand, from which a spout of flame seemed to leap, and the report of a pistol sounded over the marsh.
With what patience he could find, he was waiting for the gigantic spout of milky-colored, perfumed water which would mean that the geyser had gone off and would erupt no more for exactly forty-four minutes.
The spout runs from the ground floor to the wareroom at the top of the house.
The diameter of the base of this spout I judged to be about fifty or sixty feet; that is, the sea within this space was much agitated, and foamed up to a great height.
After some time the last water-spout was incurvated and broke like the others, with this difference, that its disjunction was attended with a flash of lightning, but no explosion was heard.
Not the dreadful spout Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun, Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear In his descent than shall my prompted sword Falling on Diomed.
Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood: Thou blowest for Hector.
Returning to the rain-spout he perched on the prominent corner, holding the three straws cross-wise in his beak.
Balancing one can on the cobbles the boy picked up a piece of sea-weed that was lying there, and aimed it at the corner of the rain-spout where it caught and hung.
Lambs were bleating in the valley meadows; the spring gurgled cheerfully outside the gate as it tumbled out of the spout into the pool below.
As you listen longer, you hear the tinkle, tinkle of the little spring that tumbles out of a small spout into a ferny well outside the garden gate.
A rubber or tin tube may be attached to the spout of the kettle and carried under a sort of sheet tent, covering the child in bed.
The blood may spout forth in a stream, as after a blow, or trickle away drop by drop, but is rarely dangerous except in infants and aged persons with weak blood vessels.
It continued to spout at intervals of a few moments for some time, but finally subsided.
It may be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, where also is deposited a fine seventeenth-century ewer or tankard with plain cylindrical body and a deep and longspout with fancy handle (see Fig.
I was taking a drink, I remember, my palm over the mouth of the wooden spout and my mouth at the gimlet hole above, when a leg appeared above the corner of the wall against which the henhouse was built.
You want a spile or spout for every pail and a pail for every tree.
On one side is a spout two and a half inches in diameter and three inches long.
Yes, an' I kep' up the fire an' put the spouton the kettle, too.
I followed him, and could soon hear the pitiful cries of a sparrow, up near a spout that comes out from under the wooden eave of the tallest gable of the cottage.
Instance: Two sparrows built this summer in the rose-covered spoutof my verandah.
