The land has been drained of its workers.

Self-contemplation is a most enervating exercise and involves a tremendous drain on the moral forces.

Boil your turbot or salmon, and set it to drain; take the gravy that drains from the salmon or turbot, an anchovy or two, a little lemon-peel shred, a spoonful of catchup, and a little butter, thicken it with flour the thickness of cream, put to it a little shred parsley and fennel; but do not put in your parsley and fennel till you be just going to send it up, for it will take off the green.

Mr. Fred E. White, of Jackson, Wyo., advised me in 1898 of the existence of sheep in the mountains which drain into Gros Ventre Fork, the heads of Green River and Buffalo Fork of Snake River.

" This sentiment was received with shouts of applause, and in honouring it the jam-pots were drained to their muddy dregs.

I drained off the contents, however, before they could escape, and flung the broken glass into the fireplace.

Let them dry and boil in salted water; drain in a colander.

We must make a drain for it at once.

" Paul, while attending to the wounded handan old story of an old wound neglected, and a constitution with all the natural healing power drained out of it by hunger and want and vodkaPaul, ever watchful, glanced round and saw sullen, lowering faces, eager eyes, hungry, cruel lips.

Whereupon Utgard-Loki bade his cup-bearer bring the large horn which his courtiers had to drain at a single draught, when they had broken any of the established rules and regulations of his palace.

The crust which is often deposited by waters which have drained through limestone rocks, in the form of what are called stalagmites and stalactites, is carbonate of lime.

Thirsty myself, I had almost drained without tasting it, when a little half-stifled cry of dismay checked me.

Drain with me this cup of welcome: thou shalt share our Yule-tide cheer.

In the centre, about five feet from the wall, a grating should be firmly fixed in the pavement, and in communication with a well-trapped drain to carry off the water; the gutter outside the stall should also communicate with the drains by trapped openings.

Roll the potatoes into small balls, cover them with egg and bread crumbs, and fry in hot lard for about 10 minutes; let them drain before the fire, dish them on a napkin, and serve.

They have been cleaning out a drain under the streets along the Town Fork of Elkhorn, and several people are down with fever.

Fry croquettes a light brown; drain over the fat, lift the frying-basket from the hot fat to a round plate, remove the articles from the basket quickly to brown paper, drain a moment and serve.

Another great evil in house construction is carrying drains underneath the house.

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.

Into this enclosure water should be conducted through a conduit and so disposed as to wind through the aviary in channels narrow enough to be cleaned easily (for if the water spreads out it is quickly polluted and rendered unfit to drink) and draining like a running stream to find its vent through another conduit, so that the birds may not be exposed to the risk of mud.