117 Words to use with wastes

However, anybody who thinks he knows more about vegetables than I do, can send me a letter containing his information, and, if I don't cabbage it, I will plant it carefully in the bottom of the waste paper basket.

Mark means originally the belt of waste land encircling the village, and secondarily the village with its periphery.

But here, they are utterly valueless, wasting their mighty power upon desolate rocks, rushing in mad and impotent fury forever through a region of barrenness and sterility, so far as the uses of civilization are concerned, a region where the manufacturer or the agriculturist will never tarry, until the world shall be so full of people that necessity will drive them to the mountains, to build up the waste places of the earth.

Seven times I failed and in the end the sheets went into the waste basket, possibly to the confusion of Annie our cook, who may have mistaken them for a reiterated admonishment towards the governance of her kitchenat the least, a hint of my desires and appetite for cheese and pippins.

There should be a series of boxes or shelves where such waste products of the home, or of the woods, or of the seashore, or of the shop, might be stored in some classified order: the collective instinct is stronger than the more civilised habit of orderliness: here is an opportunity for developing a habit from an instinct.

But the millwright, after the dam was completed, having artfully obtained his permission to use the waste water, and fraudulently erected there a common water-mill, which soon obtained all the neighbouring custom, he had sold out that property, and resorted to the agency of gunpowder, which is quite as philosophical a process as that of congelation, and much less expensive.

Finally, our bodies are continually getting rid of so-called waste matters, which may be considered products of the oxidation of the material used as food, or of the substances which make up the organism.

" [Illustration: ] CHAPTER II THE SPOONBILL AND THE CLOUD As Martin grew in years and strength, his age being now about seven, his rambles began to extend beyond the waste grounds outside of the fenced orchard and gate.

A bent pipe, which rises up from the top of the boiler, immediately behind the position of the manhole, is the steam pipe for conducting the steam to the engine; and a bent pipe which ascends from the top of the boiler, at the back end, is the waste-steam pipe for conducting away the steam, which escapes through the safety valve.

Fences waste space and curtail harvests.

It now remained only for Lanyard to fill in somehow the waste time that lay between breakfast and the hour appointed, then take due advantage of the opportunity promised him.

An ordinarily healthy person passes daily, on an average, by the kidneys about 50 ounces of waste material, of which 96 per cent is water, and from the intestines, on an average, 5-1/2 ounces, a large proportion of which is water.

By raising the heat and quantity of water, any degree of elasticity can be given to the steam, and that, too, with the least amount of waste heat in giving a natural draft.

Altogether, we numbered, including guides and interpreters, about forty persons; a truly formidable number of mouths to feed in the "waste howling wilderness.

"In my own stable, taken there by my man Zadok Brown, who says he picked it out of one of our waste barrels.

The carbon dioxid is a waste substance which the tissues produce by their activity, and which the blood carries away from them.

* With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts through the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay.

They went thus above a mile, circling his house and crossing the highway until they gained a small covert that lay with some waste fields adjacent to it.

The frightful disaster had been witnessed from the ship, and the waste boat was called into readiness, and sent to their relief.

The lower tier of a rabbit-hutch is esteemed excellent quarters by the guinea-pig: here, as he runs loose, he will devour the waste food of his more admired companion.

It will prove waste labour to attempt to force a great State by diplomatic arrangements to actions or an attitude which oppose its real interests.

Crying has been called the "waste gate" of the human system; the door of escape to that excess of excitability which sometimes prevails, especially among children and nervous adults.

Now Labrador is a cold, waste region of rocks, swamps, and mountains.

cain't waste room, poor as I am.

"Now," said a young gamin, such as one used to see in the gallery of the Théâtre Porte St. Martin, "don't you be acting the spy here, or I will break your head open as if you were a Versaillais.""Don't waste ammunition," cried an old man with a long white bearda patriarch of civil war"don't waste ammunition; and as for the spy, let him help to carry paving-stones.

117 Words to use with  wastes