Drains
[dren]
Examples
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- My own family drains me to the last penny. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is certainly an unpleasant thing, replied Mr. Dashwood, to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Not the drains, I hope? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a farm where all the necessary buildings, fences, drains, communications, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Their buildings were furnished wi th systems of drains and flushes that seem to us altogether modern. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The tree drains rapidly, the full supply of milk being generally obtained within a few hours, but an interval of several years usually elapses before it will yield a fresh supply. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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