"I better get me a job hollerin' down a well!" Her companion drained his stemless glass with a sharp jerking back of the head.

O'Flynn drained his cup without waiting for the mockery of that first toastTo our Enterprisealthough no one had taken more interest in the programme than O'Flynn.

Let them stew gently for about 1/4 hour, take them out and put them into a cloth to drain all the water from them.

I did not look at anything in the town except going through it and seeing that it is a curious fantastic place, but I drove at once to the burgomaster to ask permission to visit one of the three great pumping engines for draining the immense Haarlem lake, and then drove to it.

Greater examples are seen in his Battle of Narva, when he threw away an army to learn his opponent's game; in his building of St. Petersburg, where, in draining marshes, he sacrificed a hundred thousand men the first year.

My eyeball's man drains my heart's blood; 'tis just: In man's own darling did I place my trust.

None of the rivers crossed by Leichhardt are of sufficient magnitude to drain the country beyond the coast range, and therefore any streams descending from the tableland to the south will either be absorbed in the sandy desert or follow the southern limit of the sandstone and flow into the sea to the south-west of Roebuck Bay.

ottle and drained the drop of spirit he'd left in it.

In one deep breath He drains the hero's draught that burns With valour of the gods; then turns His long-sought foe to meet ...

A tide of a foot or eighteen inches only, as is too common in the West Indies, will only drain the swamp to that depth; and probably, if there be any strong pebble-bearing surf outside, not at all.

In The Profligate, as presented on the stage, Dunstan Renshaw changed his mind before draining the fatal goblet; and in this case the stage version was surely the right one.

A form of well-wishing formerly current in Yorkshire was thus: "May your footfall be by the root of an ash," In allusion, it has been suggested, to the fact that the ash is a capital tree for draining the soil in its vicinity.

Let them boil for an hour; then drain the syrup from them through a hair sieve or jelly-bag, and measure the juice; to every pint allow 3/4 lb. of loaf sugar, and boil these together for 3/4 hour, removing every particle of scum as it rises, and keeping the jelly well stirred, that it may not burn.

He had been draining the resources of the generous fellow.

Coal is forming now, I doubt not, in many places on the earth, and would form in many more, if man did not interfere with the processes of wild nature, by draining the fens, and embanking the rivers.

But picture a man of bold mind, a clearer, a conqueror, who should drain those lands and rid them of superfluous water by means of a few canals which might easily be dug!

When you have cleaned your mushrooms put them into a pot, and throw over them a handful of salt, and stop them very close with a cloth, and set them in a pan of water to boil about an hour, give them a shake now and then in the boiling, then take them out and drain the liquor from them, wipe them dry with a cloth, and put them up either in white wine vinegar or distill'd vinegar, with spices, and put a little oil on the top.

OMAR KHAYYÁM (TO THE OMAR KHAYYÁM CLUB) Great Omar, here to-night we drain a bowl Unto thy long-since transmigrated soul, Ours all unworthy in thy place to sit, Ours still to read in life's enchanted scroll.

We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!

Give us thy garnered sweets, short summer hour: Perfume of rose, and balm of sun-steeped pine; Scent from the lily's cup and horned flower, Where bees have drained the wine.

From the gully they snaked through the dry grass to a small ditch that had been built to drain the camping-ground during spring freshets.

The mountain chain is not really continuous, the river Pohru, which drains the valley, finding outlet to the west e'er it bends sharply to the south and enters the Wular near Sopor.

Surely you have heard"he paused to drain the dregs in his glass"the rest?" I eyed him for a moment in silence before I answered, but he met my glance fairly, indulging apparently in the same curiosity, half idle, half cynical, that he might have displayed before some episode of the theatre.

He formed a plan to drain the Pontine Marshes.

But, my lords, it is the business of governours not so much to drain the purses, as to regulate the morals of the people; not only to raise taxes, but to levy them in such a manner as may be least burdensome, and to apply them to purposes which may be most useful; not to raise money by corrupting the nation, that it may be spent in enslaving it.