Sewers
[s'ju:əz]
Examples
- The lack of water caused not only personal inconvenience and business paralysis, but it occasioned real danger of disease through unflushed sewers and insufficiently drained pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They want to explore the sewers, and he's the wizard rat that swims ahead. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The foul, bad-smelling gases which arise from sewers can be prevented from escaping and passing to streets and buildings by placing charcoal filters at the sewer exits. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Notwithstanding the success of his machine, which on public exhibition beat five of the swiftest hand sewers, he met only discouragement and disappointment. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Charcoal is porous and absorbs foul gases, and thus keeps the region surrounding sewers sweet and clean and free of odor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Sewers and water pipes were laid throughout the city, resulting in a great reduction of disease. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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