Drained

Examples

• There was a bath in that corner, from which the water had been hastily drained off. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source--the evil of suspense. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the hearth. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• 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.
• He raised the glass to his lips as we went in and drained it at a draught. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• With a smiling face and a heart of marble, he will squeeze and squeeze until he has drained them dry. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She did not cry--she only quivered up her breath, 'My heart's drained dry o' tears,' she said. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• We had drained the goat-skins dry in a little while. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The salt is then drained out and is ready for drying. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He slowly set the glass up again, refilled it, and drained it once more at a draught. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It has bled pretty freely,--pretty much drained him out, courage and all,--but he'll get over it, and may be learn a thing or two by it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He felt empty and drained and exhausted from all of it and from them going and his mouth tasted of bile. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Lowlands of Holland, Marshes of Italy, Swamps of Florida, Drained. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Trenor drained the glass he had filled for himself, and paused to set it down before he answered. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The great white apes get the flesh when the plant men have drained the arteries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Again, the veins and a rteries form a connected system; for through either a vein or an artery all the b lood may be drained off. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They drained it in November because it made a mark to sight from when the planes came over for bombing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Altogether, it drained away a quarter of a million men from France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The laboratory witnessed high times that night, for all were in the best of humor, and many a bottle was drained in toasting the health of Edison and the aldermen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Having imparted this valuable secret, Mr. Weller drained his glass once more, produced a laboured wink, sighed deeply, and slowly retired. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• After all,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he drained the last drop, 'his pranks are really very amusing; very entertaining indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Another and another cup were drained, with feverish eagerness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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