sluice

• Doze a sluice -- way down into that waste pocket there, so we won't clog ourselves up. —  First Lensman
• Phrases multiplied, mingling inextricably Morgan claims thirty cents to the pan ... good creek claim ... his sluice is about ready ... a clean-up last night ... I don't believe it.... No, Sir, I wouldn't give a hundred dollars for the whole damn moose pasture.... Well, it's good enough for me.... I tell you it's rotten, the whole damn cheese.... You've got to stand in with the police or you can't get and so on and on unendingly, without coherence. —  The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
• Waiting for some reply, I looked about me, noticing how the sluice was abandoned and broken, and how the house--of wood with a tiled roof--would not be proof against the weather much longer, if it were so even now, and how the mud and ooze were coated with lime, and how the choking vapor of the kiln crept in a ghostly way towards me. —  Great Expectations
• "Morgan claims thirty cents to the pan ... good creek claim ... his sluice is about ready ... a clean-up last night ... —  The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
• I looked about me, noticing how the sluice was abandoned and broken, and how the house -- of wood with a tiled roof -- would not be proof against the weather much longer, if it were so even now, and how the mud and ooze were coated with lime, and how the choking vapor of the kiln crept in a ghostly way towards me. —  Great Expectations

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