Draining

Examples

• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The absence of all valves renders it very suitable for draining marshes, and for other similar purposes, as the muddy water and suspended matters will not obstruct its action. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in cabs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Garth has drawn me in uncommonly with repairs, draining, that sort of thing: I'm uncommonly out of pocket with one thing or another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Then in 1698 came Thomas Savery, who patented a steam engine that was used in draining mines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Centrifugal pumps have been used with great success in lifting large bodies of water to a moderate height, and for draining marshes and other low lands. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In these he shows the power of points in draining and throwing off the electrical matter, which had hitherto escaped the notice of electricians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• No, no--see that your tenants don't sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Murray