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Usage examples of manhole.

When pressed for room, the Aleut has been known to crawl head foremost, body whole, right under the manhole and lie there prone between the feet of the paddlers with nothing between him and the abysmal depths of a hissing sea but the parchment keel of the bidarka, thin as paper.

Shaking his head in solemn disapproval, Jerry Cruncher led the way to a manhole in the road, into the socket of which he inserted a shining tool with which, in a practiced movement, he flipped the heavy manhole lid aside.

They found Doughboy all alone in a field, playing with a manhole cover.

I should have stopped at every manhole between Roxbury and Natick, following the trail, but sometimes you have to take your science with a grain of salt.

I kicked off from the bale, therefore, clawed on to the thin cords within the glass, crawled along until I got to the manhole rim, and so got my bearings for the light and blind studs, took a shove off, and flying once round the bale, and getting a scare from something big and flimsy that was drifting loose, I got my hand on the cord quite close to the studs, and reached them.

It stopped at a thing in the street like a manhole cover, flipped the cover off with two pronged levers, eased forward and dropped something round and bellowslike over the hole.

Dan and Grace approached the manhole and peered in, bumping their facemasks against the cold steel.

One of those manholes like a bloody gaspipe and there was the poor devil stuck down in it, half choked with sewer gas.

Once I get to that neighborhood, my map tells me where the key manholes are and, by running tests under those manholes, I can narrow it down even further.

Newton had its very own sewer system with its own manholes, which made things confusing.

By now it was three in the morning and we had about eight manholes to check.

The holes I chopped in the ice were as round as manholes, and about half the size.

Whatever those brief cadenzas had meant, the Cygnans picked him up again and toted him to a cluster of what looked like manholes in the spongy floor.

He cursed, grabbed for the control handle, but before he could swing the shield, a section of lawn the size of a street manhole lifted like a trapdoor behind the chigger and in the full glare of the handlight.

Beck closed and screwed down the manhole cover, while the men went away again and began returning with immense glass carboys of what looked like more water.