They are filled to a depth of about two feet with broken stone, fragments of brick, or like material and connected with the down-spouts by glazed tile pipes.
Expect this in places where down-spouts have leaked for years.
Otherwise, the common practice is simply to equip leaders or down-spouts with "quarter-bend" sections at the lower ends to keep water away from the foundation.
Hurricanes are unknown although water spouts are an occasional phenomenon.
On the mountain above the bathhouses are some mud volcanoes and steam spouts named fumiroles, but they cannot compare with those of the Yellowstone.
When long Tom beheld his victim throwing his spouts on high again, he pointed with exultation to the jetting fluid, which was streaked with the deep red of blood, and cried: "Ay!
The wooden spouts are now gone" (Tourist's Note, of 1858).
Such an oath, then, did the gods appoint the eternal and primaeval water of Styx to be: and it spouts through a rugged place.
The whale seems to be an exception to the above, as he receives water and spouts it out again from an organ, which I suppose to be a respiratory one.
Then spouts and foams, and cries at every line, (The Lord forgive him!
Blood follows from my blow; the wounded rind Spouts on my sword, and sanguine dies the plain.
These groans proceed not from a senseless plant; No spouts of blood run welling from a tree.
C--Ampullae placed in the sand which is contained in a box, the spouts of which reach from the opercula into ampullae placed under them.
Two boxes are constructed, into each of which water flows throughspouts from a cross trough into which it has been discharged through a pipe or launder.
D--Ampullae likewise placed in sand which is contained in a box, of which the spouts from the opercula extend crosswise into ampullae placed under them.
Outside of the furnace, against one side, is placed the pot without a spout, into the two holes of which the two spouts of the other pots penetrate, and this pot should be built in at both sides to keep it steady.
After a long sitting it becomes like a street in a dashing shower, where the spouts are flushing above, and the conduits running below.
Perhaps the love of existence had grown upon me as I heard the question of life and death discussed; and, at all events, I had a very strong objection to hanging from one of the spouts of Jarnac.
Take the Maheutre out, and hang him to one of the spouts of the castle!
By way of retaliation the batteries immediately in front of us redoubled their fire and spouts of earth shot into the air all round the guns.
But now another battery came up on our right, and the two, by accurate and steady shooting, gradually wore down the opposition; one by one the red flashes disappeared and the spouts of earth diminished in number.
With the Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean for March there was issued a Supplement descriptive of water-spouts off the Atlantic coast of the United States during January and February.
Spouts have been generally believed ascents of water from below, to the region of the clouds, and whirlwinds the means of conveyance.
What occasioned my thinking all spouts descend, is, that I found some did certainly do so.
Divers effects of spouts seem not so well accounted for any other way as by descent.
These water-spouts were in the calm latitudes, that is, between the trade and the variable winds, in the month of July.
However, it seems that spouts have sometimes appeared after it began to rain; but this is one way a proof of my hypothesis, viz.
Thus these eddies may be whirlwinds at land, water-spouts at sea.
But spouts have been known, when the lower region has been really cold.
There seems some probability that the sailors traditionary belief, that spouts may break in their decks, and so destroy vessels, might originate from some facts of that sort in former times.
Stuart's spouts were full charged, that is, when the whirling pipe of air was filled between a a a a and b b b b, Fig.
As usual, we have been lucky; when even the water-spouts stand back of us, what have we to fear?
When it reaches the surface of the water after a prolonged immersion, it spouts like a Whale.
And at his gills draws in, and at his trunkspouts out, a sea," wrote Milton, and think many others.
The Flour and Bran Spouts can be turned to any direction required, independently, to adjust them to any location in a mill.
The square wooden spouts of distribution may be conveniently furnished with a slide-board, attached to each of their sides, to serve as a general valve for opening or shutting many trickling orifices at once.
The drop-spouts are 6 feet long, have on each side small notches, 5 inches apart, and are each supplied by a spigot.
Only by feats of skill could we protect the bread and bully from the spouts that flowed from every point in space; and while we ate we put our hands and faces as much as possible under our cowls.
Nothing is stirring there; and our shells that burst in places with wide spouts of foam like huge billows seem to deliver their resounding blows upon a great breakwater, ruined and abandoned.
The weather was lowering on all sides, with a breeze from the Westward; which here and there in little whirlwinds carried the sand high up into the air in columns, resembling water-spouts at sea.
In the centre of the court is an avenue of lofty trees, at the sides of which are two long canals: these numerous fountains threw up a variety of little spouts of water, to the jingle of the wheels and bells of their machinery.
Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit.
A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious.
Instead of sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.
It seemed formed of detached white vapours, rising and falling something like the spouts of the whales; only they did not so completely come and go; for they constantly hovered, without finally disappearing.
There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.
A storm on ship-board, strange as it may appear, develops more profanity than reverence among sailors; but water-spouts are something with which they never presume to trifle.
The ship had been tacked to port side just as the water-spouts had been discovered, and we were sailing southward away from them.
Bullet after bullet scarred the ground, sending up spouts of red sand--now here, now there.
Now the sand-spouts which had been flung upwards, rained on us in fine, almost impalpable dust, that scorched where it fell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spouts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
