Gutters

Examples

• Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are ingenious devices, termed the return gutters and convertible rails, which are worthy of description. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gutters are the concave boards that extend the complete length of the alley, from the foul line to the pit, on both sides of the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I used to do so, on the gutters, when I was a boy,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• After the kick-backs are placed in position, the gutters are laid, and then the return chute railway is laid, between and slightly above them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I arrived at Louisville on a bitterly cold day, with ice in the gutters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The remainder of the woodwork is finished in its natural color except the gutters, which are stained mahogany and shellaced. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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