It is simply a gutter in the bed rock, and if the bottom is hard and uneven its inequalities will arrest the gold; if not, a number of boulders too heavy to be moved by the stream are put into the sluice to act as riffles.
A centrifugal pump is therefore of little use to catch coarse gold, or to clear a hard, uneven bottom.
In each case it wants but the uneven distribution of the body-weight, which, as a matter of fact, some of these conditions themselves give, to bring about a fracture.
Their bedding material collects in the shoe as snow does, and forms a mass, which keeps a continued and uneven pressure upon the sole.
The fact that hides are of uneven thickness, and the climate often hot, increases the difficulty, and often results in partial destruction of the fibrous structure of the hide.
The hides, moreover, are completely delimed, and there is little danger of bad or uneven colour.
As he watched the two men stumbling on over the uneven ground, he wondered with a little thrill of apprehension whether they would run across any of the other pickets, or even meet Billy and Dave returning from their quest.
Suddenly the stillness was broken by the uneven rattle of rapidly moving wheels over the shell road.
Except in his literary essays Carlyle's "rumfustianish growlery of style," as he called it, is so uneven that no description will apply to it.
In his middle time he generally paints open views of a rather uneven country, diversified by wood and water.
As Peter stood on the uneven bricks of his hearth looking round at the disconsolate old kitchen his eyes began to kindle with the illumination of an enthusiasm that never long deserted him.
But what dismal equipage now struggles along the uneven street?
Analogous, perhaps, to these trifling deformities was an almost imperceptible twist of every joint and the uneven prominence of the breast, forming a body regular in its general outline, but faulty in almost all its details.
Keep thy self aloof from the company of ministers whom thou hast once punished and especially of women, as also from mountains and uneven lands and inaccessible fastnesses and elephants and horses and (noxious) reptiles.
My bulls are borne away, rising and falling, as the camel is running in an uneven course.
Little Iülus, with his hand fast in mine, keeps uneven pace after his father.
In running in the dark of the night, with the uneven bottom of the river, Mr. Foster fell several times.
As this diagonal movement is reversed in each succeeding row, the surface has an uneven appearance sometimes termed "herring bone" weave.
In a typical Suj-Bulak the alignment of knots at the back appears uneven or serrated.
With the exception of wool and dyes they have little to their credit; for their usual unsymmetric shapes, crude geometric designs, long uneven nap, and braided fringe of warp at the ends are lacking in all elegance.
As Peter stood on the uneven bricks of his hearth, looking round at the disconsolate old kitchen, his eyes began to kindle with the illumination of an enthusiasm that never long deserted him.
And having crossed the Himavat, as also the Gandhamadana, he passed over many uneven and dangerous spots, walking night and day without fatigue.
And uttering loud cries some fell down on the ground, and some in fear climbed on trees, and some dropped down on uneven ground.
Suddenly, the loud notes of a key-bugle broke the monotonous stillness of the street; in came the coach, rattling over the uneven paving with a noise startling enough to stop even the large-faced clock itself.
It is an uneven piece of paving, but has certainly no appearance which would lead one to suppose that any such event had recently occurred there.
With swaying and uneven steps she made her way there.
I thought of our dark drive back through these miry and uneven ways.
And at that moment a tall, thin man, who proved to be Detective Campbell, entered, and five minutes later we were all three driving over the uneven cobbles of Dumfries and out in the darkness towards Rannoch.
Then I re-entered the stuffy old conveyance that rocked and rolled as we dashed away over the uneven forest road, and sat wondering to what manner of place I was being conducted.
At length, however, after several attempts, she succeeded in printing in uneven capitals the response: "I know you.
But a still more common misfortune is the upsetting of the charrette at a corner, by the long pieces of timber catching the side of the hill, or by the simple overbalancing of the waggon on the uneven road.
On through the darkness they went, now running, now stumbling over the uneven ground, but doggedly moving forward with unceasing ardor.
A rough, uneven walk should be avoided because she may stumble; jolting in either street cars or wagon is equally pernicious.
The ovaries are of a whitish color, and present either a smooth or a puckered uneven surface.
But the land was always very slightly rolling, and sometimes almost as uneven as a Surrey common.
Every one could see through the greenish uneven panes of old glass that there was nothing but books inside, and therefore nobody meddled with them.
The plaits must be of an uneven number: it would be unlucky if they were even.
