The flume was a square trough, open at the top and several miles in length. From Wordnik.com. [In the Footprints of the Padres] Reference
He had been seen crossing the "flume" that spanned Grizzly Canyon at a height of nine hundred feet, on a plank six inches wide. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
The flume was a no-go. From Wordnik.com. [Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne] Reference
"flume," or water-way, that alternately appeared and disappeared on the flank of the mountain opposite. From Wordnik.com. [A Waif of the Plains] Reference
There are two reservoirs from which the flume is fed. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
We were a wet lot when we reached the terminus of the flume. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
A flume had to be constructed before it could again be used. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
That accounts for four hundred thousand -- gone up the flume. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
No, that's on the flume side, an 'it might draw dampness there. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Trouble is, she don't know what sendin 'it down the flume means. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
The river, freed from its wooden-flume prison, rolls gracefully by. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
River end of the flume, part natural, part artificial, which supplied. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
A very effective device where streams are small is the flume, Fig. 23. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The 'boat' is built like the flume, V shaped, and fits into the flume. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The red-faced carpenter was sent whirling into the flume ten feet ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Sills, posts, and caps support and strengthen the flume every four feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
It means an expensive electric plant and several miles of private flume. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Every man along the flume, from Skyland to Mill Flat, was in love with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Oram, the intrepid flume-herder, laughed, dug his picaroon into a log, and asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Somebody might tell Sneath, an 'then it might be all off about his bein' flume boss. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
"If that's lost the whole expedition will be up the flume, as we miners used to say.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
The flume at the point alluded to must have been very nearly forty-five degrees inclination. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
I did not know at this time that Fair had his fingers crushed between the flume and the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
As occasion may demand, the flume is trestled, the main supports being placed every eight feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference
Mr. Flood and Mr. Fair had arranged for a ride in the flume, and I was challenged to go with them. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The grade of the flume at the mill is very heavy, and the water rushes through it at railroad speed. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The sand fell into one bin and the gravel into another, and the waste water was carried away by a flume. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Hereford I do not know, except that when we reached the terminus of the flume he was as wet as any of us. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
It seemed an hour before we arrived at the worst place in the flume, and yet Hereford tells me that it was less than ten minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
A few years ago, Addison, 26, flew his kayak over the edge of a mountain flume in France and plummeted 100 feet to the lake below. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Limits] Reference
I cannot give the reader a better idea of a flume ride than to compare it to sliding down an old-fashioned eve-trough at an angle of. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
They had nearly reached the other end of the flume, and could dimly see, ahead of them, a faint glow, which told of daylight to come. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference
A fifteen-mile ride in a flume down the Sierra Nevada Mountains in thirty minutes was not one of the things contemplated in my visit to. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
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