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.

With a quick flirt he sent the water sluicing across the bottom, turning the grains of black sand over and over.

Then he imparted to the pan a deft circular motion that sent the water sluicing in and out through the dirt and gravel.

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

This business of turning a tree into boards without the aid of a saw-mill is a thing many placer-miners have to learn; for, even if they are disposed to sleep on the floor, and to do without shelves, they can't do sluicing without sluice-boxes, and they can't make those long, narrow boxes without boards.

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.

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

"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.