That prince next invested Gournai; and opening the sluices of a lake which lay in the neighbourhood, poured such a torrent of water into the place, that the garrison deserted it, and the French monarch, without striking a blow, made himself master of that important fortress.

He ran at once and opened the sluice in the well, and away the stream gurgled underground.

" A solitary candle burned in the far corner of the inclosure, and cast faint streamers of reflection along the wet flags, which, sluiced with water from the well, exhaled a slight but grateful coolness.

Their finer meaning has run out between the lines as though these spaces were sluices for the proper drainage of the page.

A tremendous cascade of water sluiced from her hissing floats, swirling in millions of sun-glinted jewels more brilliant even than Kaukab el Durri.

Bands of workmen were demolishing houses on the western side of Fleet Ditch, and casting the rubbish into the muddy sluice before them, by which means it was confidently but vainly hoped that the progress of the fire would be checked.

"You'll come down to the sluice to-night, won't you?" "Why shouldn't I?" "No reason on earth, only I was afraid you were broodin' over what you said to Austin.

Bill paid off his crew out of the first spring cleanup, from the dust he had managed to dump into the sluices at night.