Before sewage is passed on to these filters (or on to land) it should be strained so as to remove the larger particles.
Heading the boat toward the sound, he rowed his hardest, while Filippo strained forward, listening.
Now we can have plenty of fresh air with the mosquitoes strainedout of it," said Jim.
The chests of the men strained for a bit of freshness, and their throats craved water.
The white-topped wagons strained and stumbled in their exertions like fat sheep.
Finally, the chest of the doomed soldier began to heave with a strained motion.
There was an instant of strained silence before they threw up their rifles and fired a plumping volley at the foes.
He strained his vision to learn the accomplishment of the volley, but the smoke hung before him.
He too was keeping his gaze fixed in a strained manner upon their goal.
He strained and struggled to free himself from the grasp of the two men.
Every strong muscle in all his lithe body was strained to the last limit.
She strainedher eyes through the nebulous star-shine, holding her breath in the tenseness of the moment.
An old maid's life must doubtless be void and vapid--her heart strained and empty.
I have seen a degree of sense in the modest arrangement of one homely Belgian household, that might put to shame the elegance, the superfluities, the luxuries, the strained refinements of a hundred genteel English mansions.
Yet itstrained him sore for a time to refrain from snarl and snap when the legs of strange and presumptuous blacks passed near him along the Ariel's white deck.
He strained and tugged at the grip, trying to twist his jowl in the slack of skin so as to reach a bite.
The evening meal consequently was one of strained relations.
I might, somewhere else, when over-strained have had a fit of hysterics; and my disguise would have been penetrated by eyes less merciful than yours.
When all the voices of the village fainted away she was glad, although she strained her ears to hear their fading echoes.
There was something almost passionately attentive in his attitude, something of strained eagerness in that part of his face which she could see from where she was sitting.
Suddenly Androvsky put his arm round her and strained her to him.
It leaped, as if clearing an immense obstacle, came down lightly and strainedforward into the shining mysteries at a furious gallop.
Certainly," said Androvsky, still in the same strained and unnatural voice which had surprised Domini when she introduced the two men.
But her necessity, all the same, had been as graceless as some physical act in a strained attitude, and she felt no desire to take credit for her conduct.
At this Ralph started, meeting the question with a strained smile.
Mr. Bingle strained his ears to catch Kathleen's reply, and it was such that his face brightened; he afterwards sidled up to her and stroked her hair with loving, gentle fingers.
So the captin he strained first one leg, and then he strained tother, but he couldn’t move ’em none.
I muttered to myself, as I strained my eyes over the now darkened water.
Not even a sound fell on their strained hearing, save only the strong, steady tolling above their heads.
Charley thought of all this as he knelt in the stern of his little craft and plied the paddle slowly and with infinite caution, his every nerve tense, and sight and hearing strained to catch any sound of movement on the rapidly nearing point.
Although the weary lad strained his eyes in all directions, not a sign could he see of the other canoes or of any human life.
Older children may have plain vanilla ice cream and plain junket, oyster or clam broth made with milk, the oysters and clams carefully strained out.
Well-cooked and strained spinach, green peas, cauliflower, carrots, and tender string beans and boiled or baked potatoes well mashed may be recommended.
Bouillon is clarified broth, most of the already small amount of nutrient material being thus strained and cleared from the broth, leaving a liquid of practically no fuel value.
The patient may be given a cup of well-strained meat broth, reenforced with an egg, once or twice a day, to vary the monotony of the diet.
The strained cereal should be given twice daily by the end of the first year, and the milk should be undiluted at this time unless the digestion of the infant forbids.
Prunes or figs cooked with senna leaves and thoroughly strained furnish an excellent adjunct to the diet under such conditions.
Mutton, chicken, or veal soup cooked with cereal; small portion of baked potato, small portion of strained spinach or carrots; orange gelatin or cornstarch pudding.
That's why I say the lyric strain is strained a little too much.
I strained my eyes at the window, but it was impossible to see anything.
Breathless and taken at advantage I made a struggle to rise; but I heaved and strained without avail.
She was listening still, with a strained face--listening for the pattering of the little feet, the shrill music of the piping voice.
It was long enough, however, to her unaccustomed muscles, perched for so many hours on a stool that strained her knees, with her back bent over a desk.
In the few remarks which I have set down, the reader will easily observe, that I have strained no expression beyond its natural import, and have divested myself of all heat, partiality, and prejudice.
The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solemnity; with merriment, that includes judicious and instructive observations; and solemnity, not strained by poetical violence above the natural sentiments of man.
Sometimes, she released it from her embrace, to look anxiously in its face: then strained it to her bosom again.
Meg strainedher eyes upon her work until it was too dark to see the threads; and when the night closed in, she lighted her feeble candle and worked on.
Please, let's have her up here," said the white-faced girl in the same strained tone.
The darkness, the rows of dusky faces just revealed by the flickering light, the strained attention, the visible emotion made up a strange picture.
Many had strained a point, and appeared in a style so rich that they were scarcely known by their best friends.
How the wretched prisonerstrained and tugged at his bonds.
He strainedat his bonds till his eyes seemed to burst from his head.
She would soon forget--or find some "duty" to console her, he told himself in all the bitterness fostered by his unnerved and strained state.
The light would reveal his strained fingers grasping the rock.
