But through the still, clear water the light filtered freely from below, showing the bottom as through a sea glass.

Considerable daylight filtered in through the cracks at top, bottom and one side of the door.

If, suddenly, the water should grow thick, it should be taken from the tank, a portion at a time, and filtered back into it slowly through pounded charcoal, the process being repeated till the purity seems to be returning, and at the same time the rocks and seaweed should be removed and carefully washed in fresh water.

It was not yet full day; what light filtered down here into this sheltered spot was cheerless; as it drew forest details out of the thinning shadows it seemed to be painting them in cold grey monotones upon a cold grey world.

His chief troubles were about over with the departure of the ambulance and the knowledge that filtered through the crowd that the most of the excitement was over.

Drinking water is drawn from the town main and filtered before use.

The water should never be drunk until it has been boiled and filtered.

At night, she slept by the side of the corpse, and when the light of morning filtered into her dreary place of refuge, and lighted up the body lying there, she sobbed with grief and terror.

Dating their foundation as far back as the fourteenth century, as Prague, Vienna, and Heidelberg,or established but of late years in the nineteenth, as Berlin, Bonn, and Munich,they attract to themselves the mental strength of the land, forming a focus from which radiates, whether in Theology, Science, Literature, or Art, the new world of thought, which finds its way to remotest regions, often filtered and unacknowledged.

It was still inky dark, but the air that blew in at the open window was sweet and cool, filtered of that choking smoke.

Hot summer sunlight filtered through the lowered Venetian blinds, and fell in bands on the golden wood of the floor.

A cold, grey light filtered down through the bushes and lay on the faintly gleaming sand.

No light could penetrate it; only a few vague sounds and impressions somehow filtered through.

To-day the painter has to retain the sentiment of his subject through a network of technical difficulties, and the gracious virginal figure which Monsieur Dagnan-Bouveret has painted does this measurably well; while he has triumphed technically in painting a figure in white, lit by reflected light filtered through a network of green leaves.

When the lecture was over, and the usual vote of thanks had been tendered and accepted, Mary Radford still sat there while the rest of the audience slowly filtered out of the large hall.

"It was noticed that while the raw sewage filters very slowly, so that 500 c.c. required 96 hours to pass through a paper filter, the electrically treated sewage settled well and filtered rapidly.

I was taken into another room, a little cabinet overlooking a garden, cool and green under old trees through which the sunlight filtered.

The rays of the sun, oblique beams of gold that filtered in from above, illuminating the spirals of dust, flies and moths, made him think in a homesick way of the lush green of the orchard, the white spots of the hamlets, the black smoke columns of the harbor filled with steamships, and the triple file of bluish convexities crowned with froth that were discharging their contents with a sonorous surge upon the bronze-colored beach.

The first covered the whole of the country between the Danube and the Balkan range, overflowed into Macedonia, and filtered down into Greece.

Rebuffed by the sea-board, the Slavonic migration was next deflected east, and filtered through the Bosnian mountains, scattering the Latin-speaking provincials before it to left and right, until it debouched upon the broad basin of the river Morava.

" It was evident from the laboured respiration of the ardent Mr. Stobell, coupled with a word or two which had filtered through the window, that the ingenious Mr. Chalk was using him as a stalking-horse.

Their twittering treble shook the leaves with its breath, as it filtered down and flooded the temple below.

He could speak without fear in the presence of the musician, and he spoke warmly about the Spanish kings and of the gloom that from them had filtered through the country.

Those who know the French novel will be dissatisfied with the English adaptation of it, filtered, as it has been, through a French dramatic version of the story.

It was an alcove at the end of one of the long narrow passages in which the ancient hostelry abounded, and the only light it boasted filtered through a square aperture in the wall which once had held a window.