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Last Saturday I planted a small trough of mizuna seeds, which are now healthy looking seedlings.
Water would descend through bronze clouds onto the figure of a drum-beating and dancing wizard and then drain into the trough below.
There is a little moat, a shallow trough of water, all along the front lip of the stage.
Eventually he snatches the trailer from the sea, carefully timed with the trough of the wave.
Now, Hawaiian surf officially is measured by estimating the actual height between the crest and the trough of the breaking waves.
Rather than being set in stone, the iron trough containing the canal is balanced on top of hundred-foot long, spindly legs.
Stalls should be equipped with a rack for hay, a trough or box for grain, and a water pail holder.
The Mississippi also had trough type urinals and unwalled johns in the heads, and salt water showers.
They get their water from a big trough replenished by rainwater from the roof gutter on the barn.
Cirrus clouds indicated the distant approach of a trough, both in the surface and upper air.
After the wave comes the trough, where the sea level drops below normal and the water dumped on land pours back to the sea.
Hand washing was sometimes done at a laver or built-in basin in a recess in the hall entrance, with a projecting trough.
The pump looks resplendent in a new coat of red paint and overlooks a limestone trough filled with luscious red and purple flowers.
His golden eyes glinted as he suddenly moved trough the crowd with lightning speed and grabbed a young boy by the collar.
At feeding time, the dominant mare will walk up to the feed trough and pin her ears back, immediately all the other horses move out of her road.
It was the only aqueduct on the Erie Canal to carry both a water trough and a towpath over a river.
Most of this arenaceous succession displays abundant trough and tabular cross-bedding.
This is not just water but water taken from the algae-green trough in the field.
A classic glacial relic, the tarn lies in a trough that was cut by ice moving across from Great to Little Langdale.
Twenty seconds from the start James Walsh went on a bursting solo trough run, spotted David Phelan who in turn rifled home a scorcher of a goal.
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The waterwheel turned a shaft which lifted hammers to pound the wet cloth in a trough.
On the south side of it the bed stone had been formed into a shallow trough.
She see us a-wallowin' in the trough and our mast thrashin' for all it was worth.
Now she was hid from sight in the trough of the sea, now she rose to the summit of a billow.
Troy tracked around a trough of bitterbrush that bent and fought against the deep snow.
He dived head foremost into a rectangular wooden trough that was used for the disposal of the gangue from a crushing mill above.
Presently the road changed from a trough of dust into a ribbon of greensward.
If we are to judge folk by their wames, gussy pig gruntin' in the trough wad be king o' men.
Caius brought the horses to the trough in pairs, each with a hempen halter.
The rails were laid along the bottom of the trough within a few inches of the soffit or underside of the arch.
The mammoth wave swept up the sunspot and heeled it far over into the trough like a toy bark.
A downfold, where the strata dip from either side toward the axis of the trough, is called a syncline.
The tafferel of the schooner actually came in sight, when a little swell passed over it, leaving it for an instant in the trough.
This is to be placed, while marbling, immediately to the left of the first trough.
Turning sidewise, the boat lifted like a matchstick on the crest of a giant wave and spun dizzily down into the trough.
At the next instant, the brig rose on a sea, settled in the trough, and struck.
It consists of a trough of cast or wrought iron, or mild steel, 20 to 36 in.
It was nearly dawn when they reached mopstick, where they watered their horses at the trough under the railroad tank.
Beyond this level land was a talus fallen from the cliff and then a morainal trough, up which they passed to the ice above.
Effervescence ensues, and nitric oxide is evolved, and may be collected over water or mercury in the pneumatic trough.
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