He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Passing up a horrible squalid side-alley, saw a woman, youngish but very pale and with the usual draggled exhausted look, kneeling by the gutter outside a house and poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe, which was blocked. ❋ Unknown (1997)
The space revealed was large enough for two or three bodies but contained only dust, a heap of wood shavings, and a wet patch where the waste-pipe had been leaking. ❋ Wingfield, R. D. (1984)
If at a given moment the quantity of water flowing in is too much to be discharged through this waste-pipe, the level of the water mounts in the cylinder until it reaches the top of the siphon. ❋ Various (N/A)
French screw which we left at her anchor was fizzing off steam from her waste-pipe, -- evidently meaning to stay where she was. ❋ Various (N/A)
A bulge is given to the circle towards one corner of the square, at which the waste-pipe will be situated. ❋ Archibald Williams (N/A)
The non-technical reader knows that it is that vapor which, for instance, pervades the kitchen, which issues from every cooking vessel and waste-pipe, and is always white and visible, and moist and warm. ❋ James W. Steele (N/A)
A perforated disk, or strainer, is to be secured inside of the hole, at the upper part of the magazine, for the waste-pipe. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
The lighter buoyant matters, straw, vegetable _debris_, paper, etc., remain at the surface, and are retained by the filter; the water passing through the holes in the sheet iron rushes in a filtered condition through the annular space which exists in the upper part between the two cylinders, and escapes by the waste-pipe when the water reaches a proper level. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sizes used and the methods employed to vent the waste-pipe systems are the same as in cast-iron work. ❋ Samuel Edward Dibble (N/A)
Each magazine, as a whole -- that is, including the delivering-passage -- being made, as stated above, water-tight, is to be provided with an independent cock for filling it rapidly with water; a waste-pipe leading from above the upper tier of tanks to carry off the superfluous water; and a cock just at the floor for letting the water off when the magazine is to be emptied after having been flooded. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
A short pipe to lead the water down into the hold is to be attached to the emptying cock, and with this the waste-pipe is to connect. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
A pool of steamy water lying in the grass beneath the waste-pipe gave off white wreaths that wavered upwards and fell again, while from a huge black butt upon wheels the greedy boiler sucked up more and more through a coiling tube that glittered like a serpent. ❋ F. Tennyson Jesse (N/A)
Traps will not be permitted on main, vertical, soil or waste-pipe lines. ❋ Samuel Edward Dibble (N/A)
A residue which is liquid enough to flow should be run directly from the draw-off cock of the generator through a closed pipe to the outside; where, if it does not discharge into an open conduit, the waste-pipe must be trapped, and a ventilating shaft provided so that no gas can blow back into the generator-house. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)
The plug was in the waste-pipe, the bath was full, and the water was steadily overflowing at what seemed to be a geometric rate of progression. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1942)
