42 examples of the conduit in sentences

Their house still standsa building of the late fourteenth or early fifteenth centuryon the Conduit Hill.

An interpreter was the conduit through which all the evidence must pass.

These water-bearers will empty the conduit and a man's coffers at once.

One morning in 1812, an amateur surprised us with the news that he had seen Toad-in-the-hole brushing with hasty steps the dews away to meet the postman by the conduit side.

This was the Conduit.

Leonard heard no more; but dashing through a narrow passage opposite the Conduit, passed Bartholomew-lane, and traversing Lothbury, soon reached Coleman-street and the old city gate, to which he had been directed.

In a short time, the upper part of Cornhill was rendered wholly impassable, owing to the heaps of rubbish; and directions were given to the engineers to proceed to the Poultry, and demolish the houses as far as the Conduit in Cheapside, by which means it was hoped that the Royal Exchange would be saved.

Three pipes supplied the palace with water, one from the white conduit in the new park, another from the conduit in the town fields, and the third from a conduit near the alms-houses in Richmond.

The conduit is carried along upon a ledge hewn out of the natural wall, projecting masses of rock being cut through with the hammer and chisel.

Box and hellebore, bramble and dogwood, moss and ferns, have been striving for centuries to conceal all trace of the conduit, and those whose foreknowledge did not lead them to look for it might easily pass by without observing it.

Old Man Anderson and Detroit Jim huddled close to each other in the darkness of the conduit.

In their desperate and fruitless search for an outlet to the conduit they had burned many matches and several candles.

The conduit was blocked!

The next time Jim should fall asleep he would crawl back through the aperture in the conduit wall, pry up the boards over the opening into the prison yard, wriggle out, and take his chances in getting over the wall somehow!

Detroit Jim seized the pick and began to pry the bricks loose from the arched roof of the conduit.

They worked like mad, picking, hacking, pulling, piling the bricks softly down on the conduit floor.

The tinkle echoed dully down the conduit.

The king is not unsatisfied of me; the duke has often promised me his assistance; and your lordship is the conduit through which their favours pass.

The procession then advanced to the conduit in Corn hill, where the Graces sat enthroned, with a fountain before them, incessantly discharging wine; and underneath, a poet, who described the qualities peculiar to each of these amiable deities, and presented the queen with their several gifts.

Within the tower was an excellent concert of music, and the conduit all the while ran with various sorts of wine.

During a rebellion in Jerusalem, in which the Arabs inhabiting the Tillage of Siloam were the ringleaders, they gained access to the city by means of the conduit of this pool, which again rises within the mosque of Omar.

[Footnote C: Yet Maskwell purposely talks to himself, designing to be overheard by Lord Touchwood; undoubtedly an error in the conduit, and want of art in the author.

"The standard of measurement of water in Southern California is the miner's inch under four inches pressure, or the amount that will flow through an inch-square opening under a pressure of four inches measured from the surface of the water in the conduit to the centre of the opening through which it flows.

As the believer would by faith draw out of Christ, through the conduit of the promises, which are all "yea and amen in him," 2 Cor.

At the Conduit beyond Shoreditch, a pack of young girls, who were drawing water, suspended their task to look after him; and so did every buxom country lass he encountered, whether seated in tilted cart, or on a pillion behind her sturdy sire.

42 examples of  the conduit  in sentences