Each mill had its sluiceway but they were all side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
"He must, because he ain't in the sluiceway," remarked the tall boy. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
"They can't get out of the sluiceway gate, there's a wooden grating there.". From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
They did all they could to try and avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam, but their efforts were fruitless. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The pavement of the trough is generally laid of blocks of wood 6 inches in thickness, cut across the grain, and placed on their ends, to the width of the sluiceway. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
Park & Van Buren, who are building a new draining system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by digging a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the dam. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Corney boasted, immediately swinging around, and heading toward the spot where the moss-covered wheel of the deserted mill could be seen, with little streams of water trickling over it from the broken sluiceway above. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
Then came the grand finish -- the closing of this sluiceway through the dam. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned] Reference
I had only to open a sluiceway, to draw in copious measure in my hour of need. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
Somewhere near him water was falling with a musical sound in a subterranean sluiceway. From Wordnik.com. [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference
"The plank over that sluiceway makes a lot of racket, and the scoundrel may hear us and slip away.". From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
The men hastily withdrew, first taking the precaution to remove the plank that covered the sluiceway. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
He could not escape, for the removal of the plank from the sluiceway made the place literally an island. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
One of the younger men rode the last log through the sluiceway, standing upright as it darted down the chute into the eddy below. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
With cautious strokes they paddled on until a sudden glimpse of the sluiceway leading under the mill caused them to pull up short. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
Kate said she had all the music she desired; she proposed to be safe; so she went and opened the sluiceway to reduce the pressure on the dam. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Land] Reference
Gooseberry Necli island, causeway connecting Horse Neck beach and, in town of Westport, sluiceway, etc., through, con - struction of. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
Except for the roar of the sluiceway and the gasping of the men who were getting breath there was something like calm after the uproar of the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
Further investigation showed Ned that the saw mill abutted on the corner of the dam, and that a narrow sluiceway conducted the water to the machinery. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
Proviso. construction and maintenance: provided, said dam is con - structed otherwise than with a suitable sluiceway and gates for floating ice. through the same. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
O'Day's table, he dropped to his knees and attacked a sluiceway leading to a miniature lake, fed by the umbrellas and waterproofs belonging to the two girls opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Felix O'Day] Reference
I'll be locked into this dam by you, with sluiceway refused to me -- that's what it will come to -- you offering me a cut price for the logs I can't get down to the Adonia sawmills. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
'Farrabesche,' he said, 'there must be some reason why that water-shed does not send any of its water to the plain; Nature must have made some sluiceway which carries it elsewhere.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Village Rector] Reference
Between the reflex current from the creek on top, and the undertow from the sluiceway beneath, he was buffeted about considerably before he succeeded in emerging on the spit of land between the mill and the creek. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
When the dull rumble of the sluiceway waters informed her that she was near the camp of the enemy she went more cautiously, and when she heard the voices of men she called, announcing that she desired to speak with. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
Ned straddled the rafter -- it was too dark to risk an upright position -- and made his way to the nearest end, which terminated in one of the walls of masonry that formed the sides of the sluiceway, and on which the mill partially rested. From Wordnik.com. [Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters] Reference
"to declare war," and what is this but lifting the gate and opening the sluiceway which sets in motion all the legitimate machinery which is required to paralyze an enemy?. From Wordnik.com. [Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Make a sluiceway for the cleansing waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
These tarpaulins let in a lot of water -- "here he lifted his arms so she could see the openings herself --" and then I got in over my boots trying to plug the holes in the sluiceway with some plank. ". From Wordnik.com. [Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero] Reference
611c For the construction of a sluiceway between Goose - berry Neck island and the mainland in the town of Westport, as authorized by chapter two hun - dred and sixty-five of the acts of the present year. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
Westport, causeway connecting Gooseberry Neck Island and Horse Neck beach in, sluiceway, etc., through, construc - tion of ......... appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
Horse Neck beach, causeway connecting Gooseberry Neck island and, in town of Westport, sluiceway, etc., through, con - struction of ....... appropriation. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
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