What is "undrained"

Usage examples of "undrained".

Snagsby passes along the middle of a villainous street, undrained, unventilated, deep in black mud and corrupt water-- though the roads are dry elsewhere--and reeking with such smells and sights that he, who has lived in London all his life, can scarce believe his senses.

A crop of corn on undrained, retentive ground, is subject to injury from disastrous changes of the weather, from planting until harvest.

The low wet grounds were still undrained, and the number of cases of eye-disease which we find in the legends of miraculous cures point to the prevalence of ophthalmia brought on by damp and low living, as the army of lepers points to the filth and misery of the poor .

I conceive him to indicate that the realistic method of a conscientious transcription of all the visible, and a repetition of all the audible, is mainly accountable for our present branfulness, and that prolongation of the vasty and the noisy, out of which, as from an undrained fen, steams the malady of sameness, our modern malady.

English classes as a flush from the undrained lower, Vikings all--to frigid sterile Satire.

Many were still engaged in foot races, previous age and condition having proven no bar to success, and in tossing stones closest to a line drawn by a toe, for a prize of wagered undrained bottles.

When timber grows on undrained ground, and when it is uncared for, it does not seem to approach nearer to its perfection than wheat and grass do under similar circumstances.

Go there, and you will find yourself not only out of town, away among the fields, but you will find yourself beyond the fields, in an uncultivated, undrained wilderness.

Baton Rouge that was still undrained, the streets lined with saloons and tanneries.

It was, quite literally, a swamp, for much of the land beyond Canal Street was undrained, and in fact many of the drains from the more respectable purlieus of American business farther down the road, though aimed at the turning basin of the canal not far away, petered out here.

Nor is the explanation far to seek, for the valleys afforded shelter to the wolves, and were in places obstructed by undrained marshes, unhealthy and unfitted for the herdsman and his flocks, and impenetrable as regards roads.

For all his optimism, for all his young, undrained strength, a doubt began to grow in the mind of Pierre le Rouge.