As such it means a violent draining of the endocrine wells.

This department is subdivided into the health department, which has charge of the hospitals, supervision of health matters in Panama and Colon, and of the quarantine, and into the sanitary inspection department, which looks after the destruction of the mosquito by various methods, by grass and brush cutting, the draining of various swampy areas, and the oiling of unavoidable pools and stagnant streams.

A long silence followed, as they paced on past lonely farmyards, from which the rich manure-water was draining across the road in foul black streams, festering and steaming in the chill night air.

What of under-draining?

She felt again that dreadful pain at her heart, as if the blood were draining from it with every beat.

And always he knew that the blood was draining from him with every foot of ground he covered.

After draining this natural cup, you are presented with a natural spoon of rind, green outside and white within, and told to scoop out and eat the cream which lines the inside of the shell, a very delicious food in the opinion of Creoles.

He outdives a Dutchman, gets a noble of him that was never worth sixpence; for the poorest do not escape, but Dutch-like he will be draining even in the driest ground.

When we add to this the conscript system, which is draining the provinces of their best Moslem subjects, to the advantage of the Christians and Jews, and the blindness of the Revenue Laws, which impose on domestic manufactures double the duty levied on foreign products, it will easily be foreseen that the next half-century, or less, will completely drain the Turkish Empire of its last lingering energies.

Land that had gone sour might be recovered by draining, and a bank could be built where the river now and then washed away the crops.

The rogue has alighted to swallow a fresh draught from some booth, after draining his own skin to the bottom.

This done, the drivers were liberally rewarded for their trouble by Mr. Bloundel, and after draining several large jugs of ale brought them by the farmer, made the best of their way back, certain of obtaining further employment during the night.

Don't leave your engine in cold weather without first draining all pipes.

IV What though fogs may stream from draining waters?

I am, however, confident, that neither draining the soil (for that was not done,) nor any change in the general habits of the peasantry, had taken place, to which their improved health could be attributed.

Lita went to them and asked what they were doing; they said that they were hunting for an otter which had been destroying the Raja's fish and the Raja had promised them a reward if they killed it, and they had driven it into the tank and were draining off the water in order to catch it.

On the north the basin of the Great Lakes remained British; on the south the lands draining into the Gulf remained Spanish, or under Spanish influence.

" "By Jove, two legs instead of one, thenworse than I thought," cried Bazelhurst, draining his glass.

First Day's Observations and EnjoymentRural Foot- paths; Visit to Tiptree FarmAlderman Mechi's Operations Improvements Introduced, Decried and AdoptedSteam Power, Under- draining, Deep Tillage, IrrigationPractical Results.

FIRST DAY'S OBSERVATIONS AND ENJOYMENTRURAL FOOT-PATHS; VISIT TO TIPTREE FARMALDERMAN MECHI'S OPERATIONSIMPROVEMENTS INTRODUCED, DECRIED, AND ADOPTEDSTEAM POWER, UNDER-DRAINING, DEEP TILLAGE, IRRIGATIONPRACTICAL RESULTS.

The bag will be found more handy if a small hoop of wire is sewn around the top and two tapes attached to hang it by while the hot juice is draining, or a wooden frame to support the bag may be easily constructed like the one shown on page 74.

No person of rank who visited the King could leave without sitting at his table or at least draining a cup to his health.

And there wuz a place where we could see a miner's cabin, and miners at work, blasting, draining, driving tunnels, drilling, traveling underground.

And there wuz all the methods of irrigation, draining, engines, wind-mills, pumps, farm wagons, all kinds of fruit, sugar canes, vegetable sugar, candy stores, confectionery displays, vegetables of all kinds that wuz ever hearn on, some on 'em of such monster size that you never dremp on 'em, unless it wuz in a night-mair.

From what has gone before, readers will readily understand that the New Zealand Government has usually in its employ several thousand labourers engaged in road-making, bridge-building, draining, and in erecting and repairing public buildings.