Water conduits

Usage examples of mains.

Novelli le vit, au fin bout de son banc, agiter les mains devant la figure des parleurs, pour les faire taire.

Il parut souffrir une peine insurmontable, et soudain se rompit, abandonnant ses mains sur la table et ne regardant plus Salomon en face de lui, mais seulement la flamme de la bougie qui tremblait.

Leurs mains disparaissaient sous leurs manches, leurs pieds sous leurs robes, leurs yeux sous leurs bonnets.

He lit more than two thousand fires, and, by the smashing of nearly a hundred and fifty water mains, coupled with the low tide in the Thames, he stopped us putting them out.

Il se rencoigna, le front contre la muraille, les mains sur la figure.

Bernard, langues, regards et mains agiles, jouaient aux sous avec le ciel.

The connection of the laterals with the mains, the laying of the larger sizes of tiles so as to form a close joint, the wedging of these larger tiles firmly into their places, and the trimming which is necessary in going around sharp curves, and in putting in the shorter pieces which are needed to fill out the exact length of the drain, demand more skill and judgment than are often found in the common ditcher.

On very even land, where the whole surface, for hundreds of acres, slopes gradually in one or two directions, the outlay for mains need not be more than two per cent.

On less regular ground, the cost of mains will often be considerably more than two per cent.

Stroop tried to flush them out by flooding the mains but the Jews managed to stop the flow of water.

Two twenty-four-inch cooling mains, now empty, used to bring water up from a reservoir back in the bunker farm to cool the main steam condensers.