drain-pipes

For here is spread a peaceful bay, and plains of brighter sea more gently furrowed by the wind, and cliffs that have no cause to be so steep, and bathing-places, and scarcely freckled sands, where towns may lay their drain-pipes undisturbed.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Somebody understood that somebody else was intending to have the corridors scoured; and representations were to be made to the Turkish authorities about getting the drain-pipes mended.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

(He walks up and down the road a certain distance, dropping stones out of his pocket at each turning, and clears out the surrounding drain-pipes to drain his bit of swamp, as his amusements.)

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

A few feet from this catch-basin was a second, and beyond this a third, all of the same size, with drain-pipes connecting them about two feet below the ground.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

These wooden drain-pipes are made in short lengths, strengthened by a spiral wrapping of metal bands, and are tested to a pressure of 40 lb. per sq. in.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 Herbert M. Wilson

Capillaries, Schwann held, were formed by cells hollowed out like drain-pipes, and set end to end -- a mistaken view soon corrected by Vogt (_Embryologie des Salmones_, p. 206, 1842).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The drain-pipes within the building were obstructed and had burst, spreading their contents over the floors and walls.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

On every side the dead men's blood poured through the openings down to the drain-pipes.

The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway

Ditching machines, each accomplishing the work of fifty men, aided the speedy establishment of a drainage system, for which twenty-eight thousand drain-pipes were employed, and of a very complete camp water-supply.

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

Rockingham ware, and red earthenware; and in addition the great quantities of sanitary ware for plumbing, drain-pipes, and tiling.

The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920