The regulation should usually be so effected that rushes of water in any portion of the channel are avoided, but if scour occurs in a particular part of the channel it may be necessary to try and obtain slack water there.
— from Irrigation Works The Principles on Which Their Design and Working Should Be Based, with Special Details Relating to Indian Canals and Some Proposed Improvements by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis

He had meant to buy a place in the North; it was only when the one he wanted had been snapped up by somebody else that the agents succeeded in persuading him to come and look at the house at Milldean.
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope

The mats were rolled up, and, with the provision-baskets, slung upon broad shoulders; each tamane resumed his load of wares, and took his place; those armed put themselves, with their masters, at the head; and at another peal from the shell all set forward.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

After a cautious introduction of the subject by asking his advice as to the minimum of hours in the week one could conscientiously allow a doubtful member of the Weekly Culture Club to spend upon Browning, she endeavored to get his idea of that poet.
— from A Philanthropist by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Here indeed Southey's unsurpassed biographical skill enforced the poetaster's merit in a charming Memoir , which assisted White's [Pg 108] rather pathetic story.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury