Crash!" went the cakes of ice as they came up the incline, and slid down the long wooden chutes, where the men hooked them off and piled them up.

The Brewster house was honeycombed with sleeping porches and sun parlours and linen closets, and laundry chutes and vegetable bins and electric surprises as well-to-do Middle Western home is likely to be.

The place seemed a narrow chute.

The official method of escaping from burning buildings is down the official chute.

This consists of escaping from upper windows by means of precarious canvas chutes.

I remember seeing Her Grace the Duchess of Marlborough sitting hour after hour on a baggage truck, waiting for her heavy luggage to come off the tardy tender and up the languid chute into the big dusty dockhouse.

The slippery chute brought a suggestion from Holman.

It is a straight chute down which, every year, thousands of girls descend to the way of the prodigal.

I found him standing in the middle of a swift chute with his rod bent double and a long line out.

To hear in the pitch darkness the mysterious voices of po, the tenebræ of the Tahitian gods; the boom of the cascade in the abyss; the deep bass of the river in the rocky chute; the sigh of the wind in the trees; the murmur of the stream near by; the fantasia and dirge of the lofty night in the tropics.