well-sinking

Technical factors include a dry-season watertable within the suction limit, a suitable aquifer at depth reachable by low-cost well-sinking methods, and sufficient recharge.

Chapter 17 1995

It was, as one might imagine, the strangest experience of my very varied life which has included well-sinking in every continent upon earth.

When The World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968

It was, as one might imagine, the strangest experience of my very varied life which has included well-sinking in every continent upon earth.

When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968

They did all kinds of men's work by preference, including well-sinking, hedging, ditching, and excavating, without any sense of fatigue.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

We had ample opportunity to watch them at night, as our well-sinking operations kept us up.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

They did all kinds of men's work by preference, including well-sinking, hedging, ditching, and excavating, without any sense of fatigue.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

'Joe as usual is foremost at all work; fencing, well-sinking, And he proves the truth of the old saying, that "the head does not suffer by the work of the hand."

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

During the mining-operations, the game is laid somewhere high up, out of reach of the Ants, on some tuft of grass, or the twigs of a shrub, whither the huntress, from time to time, stopping her well-sinking, hastens to see if her quarry is still there.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Augusta, I heard that a Mr. Moseley was out somewhere to the west of the Elizabeth, well-sinking, on a piece of country he had lately taken up, and that he was camped at or near some rain-water.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

Their expertness in all sorts of earthwork, in embanking, boring, and well-sinking — their practical knowledge of the nature of soils and rocks, the tenacity of clays, and the porosity of certain stratifications — were very great; and, rough-looking though they were, many of them were as important in their own department as the contractor or the engineer.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858