Channels

Examples

• Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When the demands and wishes of others forbid their direct expression they are easily driven into subterranean and deep channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Her commerce, instead of running in a great number of small channels, has been taught to run principally in one great channel. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resignation towards the Colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They must force open these closed channels, unless Constantinople and the Black Sea route were to monopolize Eastern trade altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When foreign distresses came to be felt by us through the channels of commerce, we set ourselves to apply remedies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Its threads are interrupted by longitudinally arranged channels, and the breech of the gun has corresponding threads and channels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I am well convinced that his Ministers--that the usual official channels have not been employed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This is due partly to the fact that the roots of trees by their constant growth keep the soil loose and open, and form channels, as it were, along which the water can easily run. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When the plug is pushed into the gun, the screw threads of the plug enter the channels of the breech, and a rotary turn of the screw plug then locks its threads into those of the breech. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Incisions are cut in the bark of the long-leaf pine trees, and these serve as channels for the escape of crude resin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Cover either two of those channels of expression, and the third would have said so still. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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