32 Verbs to Use for the Word reservoir

It does not follow that every parent contains these reservoirs, and that a continual close association with the parents is always beneficial to children.

So, when the top box is brought down tight, this will form another reservoir for the grease.

Fortunately they found, amongst some ledges of rock, a large natural reservoir, which promised to be permanent, and capable of supplying their wants on their homeward way.

He sunk more wells and capped them; he built reservoirs, he laid down pipe line.

But God knows, He alone.... I had not properly filled the little reservoir with oil, and at about three in the fore-day, it began to burn sullenly lower, letting sparks, and turning the glass grey: and in my deepest chilly heart was the question: 'Suppose the lamp goes out before the daylight....' I knew the Pole, and cold, I knew them well: but to be frozen by panic, my God!

main; the former for the water supply, and the latter for scouring or for emptying the reservoir on an emergency.

We cross the desert, the real desert without a thread of water, where artesian wells have to be sunk to supply the reservoirs along the line.

It was at Sydenham, in a house nearly facing the reservoir, that the poet produced his greatest work, Gertrude of Wyoming, written in the Spenserian stanza.

" "Yes," said Father Payne, "on the side of resistance to evil, I admit; but you can fight without banging and smashing things, as the dam fights the reservoir by silent cohesion.

Stella silently indicated the reservoir at one end of the range.

An inflow of nearly one thousand nurses each month keeps the reservoir ready to meet the drain.

We have seen very few inhabitants on this part of the coast but at this season they are doubtless divided into small detached parties for the greater facility of procuring sustenance, and of making their reservoirs of water, wherever they may be, last longer.

Towards the summit of the mountain is an artificial lake, formed by a strong dyke, or bank of stonework, which intercepts and collects the mountain-streams and melted snowsa huge reservoir, whence the water is let off to irrigate the distant low plains of Kashán, and, indeed, to supply the city itself.

Uncle Sam has been commendably quick and wise in offering a reservoir to hold the tiny savings, but slow in starting a democratic propaganda suggesting ways of saving the pennies.

After passing a reservoir on the left the road reaches the lonely "Shepherd's Shore," nearly 600 feet up.

Great efforts were made by the Belgians from time to time to repair the reservoir, but it was always thwarted by the German shell fire.

The rain falls into the deep incisions of the letters, and has scarcely time to be dried away before another shower sprinkles the flat stone again, and replenishes those little reservoirs.

I am given to understand, however," added Mr. Mortimer, "that the apparatus requires a considerable reservoir, and a reservoir of any size is only compatible with fixity of tenure.

That it held a deeper interest, that if it succeeded it would reveal an untapped reservoir of resources available for the church and the kingdom of God, did but make him the more eager to be at it in hard earnest.

You girls have never seen the old reservoir.

These are filled with water and serve as long, narrow reservoirs, from which the locomotive-tenders are filled while going at almost full speed.

Mr. DUFFY'S work, depending as it does mainly on a flow of charming and even exquisite side incident, suggests that he is no more than beginning to tap a most extensive reservoir.

But in the case of Esther, Mordecai's appeal unlocked an unused reservoir of power that has made her one of the world's heroines.

In several places the water has worn little reservoirs for itself, which are always full.

The discovery of a new world by Columbus and other eminent navigators gave a fresh and powerful impulse to European talent, by affording an immense reservoir for its reward.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  reservoir