Work on the 220 drift has slowed as crews encounter increasingly difficult conditions that require a special tunneling technique called spiling that uses steel supports to prevent the new tunnel from collapsing. From Wordnik.com. [Rescuers find rubble at end of collapsed tunnel in Idaho] Reference
Here was pooty girls Primrosing madly, and spiling their tempers a lump. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
Is about this here "spiling the River" which snarlers set down to our sort. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891] Reference
With a bound, Willy Horse cleared the spiling and leaped to the river bed to finish his victim. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
It's a long read, but the gems like that and Sam 'spiling a beadle' filling him in are well worth the wait. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Weller's Walentine] Reference
"Why then bad luck to your impidence," says the Waiver, "would no place sarve you but that? and is it spiling my breakquest yez are, you dirty bastes?". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
About 1839, he took his new spile-driver to Maumee Bay and drove about nine hundred feet of spiling around Turtle Island, filling the enclosed space with earth to the height of three feet, to protect the light-house. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Minde you only those RFK coments (and if you wont even REGRET, not apology; and regret expresed in form "IF" I offended - that is mockery) It is right that she can do waht wont, but super delegats can do what moraly OK - stop her poison spiling even longer. From Wordnik.com. [Carter: After June 3, it will be time for Clinton to 'give it up'] Reference
But all in wane, they wood keep running down that bewtifool face as if enamelled with its buty; and quite heedless of how they was a spiling of her new ivory cullered sattin dress that Maddam ELISE's yung ladies had been a workin on up to five a clock that werry arternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891] Reference
The ship passed between the long rows of spiling with nice judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The tall fence and the spiling driven into the ground now explain themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,] Reference
The bottom is well secured by spiling and then solid rock for about six feet deep. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
"Faix -- we wouldn't be afther spiling your honer's divarsion, my lord, on no account," said another. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush] Reference
You know that frying pan you have that's too small, that everytime you use ends with you spiling stuff on your hot stove?. From Wordnik.com. [Arrowhead Pride] Reference
He headed for a part of the river where several small craft were moving about, and was just about to climb up the spiling of one of the docks when a lighter hit him and knocked him senseless. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes Or, the secret of the island cave] Reference
But four kids are really a handful, while Shin Ae was busy handling one, Alex was changing diapers for another, the other two without any supervision just started making a mess, spiling the milk all over the water cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Coolsmurf Domain] Reference
‘Faix we wouldn’t be afther spiling your honer’s divarsion, my lord, on no account,’ said another. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
And there’s many a lady that she never would have seen a cent, let alone making herself pay for the spiling of it.”. From Wordnik.com. [At Fault] Reference
You're spiling sport. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
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