"There is sunlight and fresh air in the street," John Charteris had been wont to declare, "and there is a culvert at the corner.

Pascual Orozco, on the other hand, reported to the revolutionary Junta in El Paso that he had ordered his men to retire before the superior force of the federals, and that they had accomplished this without disorder by the simple process of boarding their waiting trains and steaming slowly off to the north, destroying the bridges and culverts behind him as they went along.

The waters from which Bath gets its fame are believed to owe their origin to the surface drainage of the E. Mendips, which percolates through some vertical fissure, perhaps at Downhead, to the heart of the hills, and are conducted by some natural culvert beneath the intervening coal measures, washing out as they go the soluble mineral salts, and whilst still retaining their heat emerge again at the first opportunity at Bath.

The water came in from below, through the seventy openings in the floor of each lock, being admitted by means of pipes and culverts from the upper level.

In 1867, four years after the completion, spurts of water showed themselves in the culvert in front of the puddle wall, which began to settle, and the water had to be drawn off to admit of repairs.

Your father's turning out culverts like a poet, there'll be more than I ever thought.

stone culvert on the borders of the little pool proved to be the top of the back of a row of seven or eight very fine stone seats.

A better plan, if you have the advantage of ground, is to cut a culvert under the parapet and pass the inundation on to a more deserving quarter.