The gasholder is placed in a tank of water, so that there is no waste of gas as the huge iron holder fills or empties.

Mounted cavalry were once more used to assist the infantry in the open, while tanks in large numbers were used to clear out enemy machine-gun nests.

Use your tank for the pond instead of the ocean; and in the spotted newt, the tortoise, the tadpole, the caddis-worm, and the thousand other inhabitants of our inland ponds and brooks, with the weeds among which they live, you will find as much entertainment as in watching the wonders of the great sea.

There, between that water-tank on that black roof over there and them two chimneys.

The Germans fired on the tanks with seven big guns at short range.

A small bath closet connected the twocrude a bit and somewhat unfinished; but a hot tub, the water supplied from a tank at the kitchen range, was enjoyed by both.

A hum from the argumentative villagers, a lazy flop in the tank as a raho rose to the surface, an occasional outburst from the ducks, an angry clamour from the water-hens and blue-fowl.

Underneath this cistern is frequently a tank from eight to ten feet deep, into which, when the former is full the water is permitted to run.

I remember shooting one ghastly old scaly villain in a tank near Ryseree.

The good engineer can stand by and at a glance take in the entire engine, from tank to top of smoke stack.

It is done by putting water into small metal tanks, and then by taking all the warmth out of the water by dipping the tanks into a big vat of salt and water which is made very cold by something called ammonia.

I used to let myself in with a key and hoist my subject out of a sort of sepulchral tank by means of a chain tackle.

It may now be introduced into the tank through a filter.

That's about the only thing that could put even one of the first tanks out of action that way.

To do him honour, the City Fathers had named a tank after him.

A supply of water (of which the peninsula had been wholly destitute) was secured, not only by constructing numerous tanks within the walls, and by boring numerous wells through the solid rock to a depth of upwards of 200 feet, but by carrying an aqueduct into the town from a spring eight miles in the country, the reservoir at the end of which was defended by a redoubt mounted with artillery.

My brain was in such a way, that it was several days before the perfectly obvious means of finding my way to London, since I wished to go there, at all occurred to me; and the engine went wandering the intricate railway-system of the south country, I having twice to water her with a coal-bucket from a pool, for the injector was giving no water from the tank under the coals, and I did not know where to find any near tank-sheds.

A little later Clive protected his great barracks at Berhampur with a line of large tanks along the landward side.

They both fell at the Bloody Tanks in the embrace of death.

She looked up at the great, clean, many-windowed façade above them, towering, even above the huge bulk of the gas-tanks across the street, and her dark eyes kindled.

There was a stream here, too; a small, sluggish thing that flowed from tank to tank among the factories, spanned by numerous handrails, bridged in one place for the wagon-road to cross.

Water tanks below deck serve to trim the boat and furnish a supply for the boiler.

Last of all to disappear, already a mere black dot against the blue, was the water tank beside the station.

These vapours are often seen hanging or rolling over the surface of the tank like thick wreaths of smoke.

Muztagh had awakened the great creature from his sleep, and he came bearing down like a tank over "no man's land.