Underground Sentence Examples

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  • Take her underground, if you must.

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  • He breathed deeply, not realizing how musty the underground world was until he breathed fresh air.

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  • Move them to the nearest underground site today.

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  • He stopped outside the door to the underground dungeon, his skin crawling at the scent of earth all around him.

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  • She followed her friend to a portion of the underground site converted into a massive gym and training facility.

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  • I'm surprised the underground held.

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  • He held it against his arm and trotted through the hold, down stairwells until the familiar must of the underground slowed his step.

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  • I don't like it underground.

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  • The door to the underground tunnel network was hidden behind a boulder and draped with moss.

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  • He felt the pressure of the underground again, as if the world was closing in on him.

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  • Maybe she didn't like it underground.

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  • Brady's eyes took in the occupants of the underground world.

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  • Caring for the ancient warrior in the catacombs, Jame, all those years taught him compassion otherwise denied him among the dead in those underground passageways.

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  • Could be an underground spring or river or something causing them to move.

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  • He started the car again and drove through a series of tunnels and intersections, a virtual underground street grid, before arriving at a large garage filled with gleaming cars.

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  • The emergency network had not been utilized, which meant that by morning one of the high-ranking men hiding underground would be on the phone to General Greene to complain about the lack of gin.

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  • There were five within two days of the underground city.

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  • He started forward, anxious to see if the underground railroad survived the onslaught.

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  • After summers of waiting and years of agony underground, he had his tool to use against Memon.

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  • In the time of the Spanish wars these underground passages served to hide the peasants and their cattle.

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  • He moved mechanically out of the single large kitchen in the underground lair.

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  • The rest of the population lived on the streets or underground.

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  • They moved on, taking circuitous routes back to the underground entrance in case they were being watched.

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  • Brady reached the intersection and saw the tunnel running perpendicular opened into a crowded underground city.

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  • He slung his weapon over his shoulder as they walked deeper into the underground city.

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  • Taran shifted at the threat of the underground.

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  • If the elderly man had only waited a few more years to die, he might have left the underground hell and lived to see this wonderful world.

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  • I spent fifteen years underground.

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  • It reminded him of being underground.

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  • The beam was swallowed by the catacombs, and it was still too dark around her to see how large the underground world was.

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  • Xander wanted to blow up the underground facility.

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  • Many underground water sources rely solely on winter rainfall to fill them up.

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  • He didn't know how to leave the underground prison, or he'd take her outside to see them.

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  • He came from an underground facility on the other side of Tucson.

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  • The underground world was well built and bright with whitewashed walls lining corridors wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

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  • She whirled, but the vamp that had led her into the underground lair blocked the doorway.

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  • She trailed him to an elevator that took them even further underground.

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  • There were no sounds, no sights underground, no sensations aside from the scent of his own fear and the feeling of earth closing in around him.

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  • It had been too long since he recited them; five summers had passed since he was freed from the underground.

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  • He would never return underground!

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  • I know you fear nothing but the underground, and I will send you there for all of eternity if you refuse my command!

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  • Taran tensed, expecting an order to have him seized and thrown underground.

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  • Most of my vamps are underground.

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  • Any portion of the underground rhizome when broken off is capable of producing a new plant; hence the difficulty of eradicating them when once established.

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  • Various species among those that are predaceous attack smaller insects, hunt in packs crustaceans larger than themselves, insert their narrow heads into snail-shells to pick out and devour the occupants, or pursue slugs and earthworms underground.

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  • They feed in wood or spend an underground life devouring roots or animal excrement.

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  • During summer the insects rest in their underground retreats, then in autumn FIG.

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  • Among the vegetable-feeding chafers we usually find that while the perfect insect devours leaves, the larva lives underground and feeds on roots.

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  • The superiority, so far as the convenience of passengers is concerned, of an elevated over an underground railway, when both are worked by steam locomotives, and the great economy and rapidity of construction, led to the quick development and extension of this general design.

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  • Its promoters recognized the unsuitability of ordinary steam locomotives for underground railways, and intended to work it by means of a moving cable; but before it was completed, electric traction had developed so far as to be available for use on such lines.

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  • The contract price of the New York underground railway, exclusive of the incidentals above mentioned, was $35,000,000 for 21 m., of which 16 m.

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  • Needless to say the " well " chilled " Champagne " which had been stored underground for over a year was enthusiastically quaffed!

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  • One moment Dorothy sat beside them with the kitten in her lap, and a moment later the horse, the piglets, the Wizard and the boy were all that remained in the underground prison.

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  • An energy crop could be a permanent forest of trees that convert sunlight to liquid fuel and deliver the fuel directly through their roots to a network of underground pipelines.

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  • They are propagated by cuttings, or from the leaves, which are cut off and pricked in welldrained pots of sandy soil, or by the scales from the underground tubes, which are rubbed off and sown like seeds, or by the seeds, which are very small.

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  • Both descriptions of rock yielded good material for building; while in the soft meleke tanks, underground chambers, tombs, &c., were easily excavated.

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  • At this point in the Haram enclosure there is an enormous underground cistern, known as the Great Sea, and this may possibly have been the source of water supply for the Greek garrison.

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  • Its fires are not volcanic, but result from the combustion of coal some distance underground, giving off much smoke and steam; geologists estimate that the burning has been going on for at least 800 years.

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  • This underground network of old river-beds underlying the great alluvial plains must be filled to repletion before flood waters will flow over the surface.

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  • The well-water was supposed to have percolated underground, through the Blythesdale Braystone, which outcrops in patches on the eastern edge of the Rolling Downs formation.

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  • The chemical characters of the well-waters, the irregular distribution of the water-pressure, the distribution of the underground thermal gradients, and the occurrence in some of the wells of a tidal rise and fall of a varying period, are facts which are not explained on the simple hydrostatic theory.

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  • Connexion is made into the office (or to the underground system, as is often the case) from the aerial wire by means of a copper conductor, insulated with gutta-percha, which passes through a " leading in " cup, whereby leakage is prevented between the wire and the pole.

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  • The underground system of paper cables has been very largely extended, Cables between London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool.

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  • Many circuits have been " loaded " in the manner proposed by Pupin during recent years, especially in underground cables, and it has been found in practice that the transmission value of these when loaded is approximately from three to four times their value unloaded.

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  • The United Telephone Company again applied unsuccessfully for right to lay wires underground.

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  • The National Telephone Company applied to the London County Council for permission to lay wires underground and continued efforts till 1899 to obtain this power, but without success.

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  • The National Telephone Company again applied to parliament for powers to lay wires underground; public discontent with inadequate telephone services was expressed, and at the same time the competition of the telephone with the Post Office telegraph became more manifest.

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  • The National Telephone Company again applied to parliament for power to lay wires underground, but was refused.

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  • Local authorities (particularly London and Glasgow) refused to permit the company to lay wires underground.

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  • The trunk wires were transferred to the Post Office in pursuance of the policy of 1892, but for all practical purposes the local authorities had vetoed the permission of the government to the company to lay wires underground.

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  • The Post Office co-operated with the London County Council to put difficulties in the way of the company which had placed wires underground in London with the consent of the local road authorities.

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  • The Postmaster-General on the other hand agreed to provide underground wires for the company on a rental, and agreed to buy in 1911 the company's plant in London at the cost of construction less allowance for repairs and depreciation.

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  • Large as this progress was it would have been much greater if the Telephone Company had been granted adequate powers to put wires underground and thus instal a complete metallic circuit in place of the single wire, earthreturn, circuit which it was constrained to employ.

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  • The Postmaster-General also agreed to lay underground wires for the company at an annual rental of L1 per mile of double wire in any local area in which the company was operating, but not in areas in which the municipalities had established exchanges.

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  • The length of underground pipes which had been laid in the metropolitan area for telephone purposes was 2030 m.

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  • The "pit amber" was formerly dug in open works, but is now also worked by underground galleries.

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  • The stem in this family falls into two divisions, an underground portion bearing rhizoids and scales, the rhizome, and a leafy aerial stem forming its direct upward continuation.

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  • As the aerial stem is traced down into the underground rhizome portion, these three mantles die out almost entirelythe central hydrom strand forming the bulk of the cylinder and its elements becoming mixed with thick-walled stereids; at the same time this central hydromstereom strand becomes three-lobed, with deep furrows between the lobes in which the few remaining leptoids run, separated from the central mass by a few starchy cells, the remains of the amylom sheath.

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  • Thus the scenery of a limestone country depends on the solubility and permeability of the rocks, leading to the typical Karst-formations of caverns, swallowholes and underground stream courses, with the contingent phenomena of dry valleys and natural bridges.

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  • The elevated is used where the traffic is so light as not to warrant the expensive underground construction, or where the construction of an elevated line is of no serious detriment to the adjoining property.

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  • The fouling of the air that results from the steam-engine, owing to the production of carbonic acid gas and of sulphurous fumes and aqueous vapour, is well known, and its use is now practically abandoned for underground working.

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  • Small streams often sink from sight in their beds of gravel, and after flowing some distance underground, reappear farther on.

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  • These aguadQS were huge basins, paved and cemented, with underground cisterns, also lined with stone and cement, which may have been used for the protection of water against heat when the principal supply had become exhausted.

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  • Some of their towns were built near large underground reservoirs, called cenotes, that afforded a perennial supply.

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  • The nests of different kinds of ants are constructed in very different situations; many species (Lasius, for example) make underground nests; galleries and chambers being hollowed out in the soil, and opening by small holes on the surface, or protected above by a large stone.

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  • Lubbock (Lord Avebury) states that the common British yellow ants (Lasius flavus) collect flocks of root-feeding aphids in their underground nests, protect them, build earthen shelters over them, and take the greatest care of their eggs.

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  • This stream flows north-westward from the last lake and vanishes underground within 3 m.

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  • It is now known that the Guadiana Alto has no such course, but flows underground to the Zancara itself, which is the true "Upper Guadiana."

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  • The latter, besides its more obvious advantages, speedily freed large tracts of country from stagnant water and their inhabitants from ague, and prepared the way for the underground draining which soon after began to be practised.

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  • The depth of the middle portion of the lake has not yet been measured, but must exceed 500 fathoms. It was expected that an underground ridge would be found connecting Olkhon with Svyatoi Nos; but depths exceeding 622 fathoms have been sounded even along that line.

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  • More intelligent planters drain their bottom-lands with underground or open drains.

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  • The village became a station on the Underground Railway, and an important centre of anti-slavery sentiment.

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  • Farther east is an underground passage leading eastward to a cave supposed to be the sanctuary of Aglaurus where the ephebi took the oath; with this passage is connected a secret staircase leading up through a cleft in the rock to the precinct of the Errephori on the Acropolis.

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  • The wealth underground is doubtless immense; but, despite all efforts, there is not much for antiquarians to see in Alexandria outside the museum and the neighbourhood of "Pompey's Pillar."

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  • In the neighbourhood are the cave of Drach, containing several underground lakes, and the caves of Arta, one of the largest and finest groups of stalactite caverns in western Europe.

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  • The well-known Shetland breed of shaggy ponies are in steady demand for underground work in collieries.

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  • There is an entire underground city with several storeys of larger and smaller streets, squares and cross ways, cut out of the rock; at the intersection of the cross ways FIG.

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  • Special commissioners were to have concurrent jurisdiction with the U.S. circuit and district courts and the inferior courts of Territories in enforcing the law; fugitives could not testify in their own behalf; no trial by jury was provided; i The precise amount of organization in the Underground Railroad cannot be definitely ascertained because of the exaggerated use of the figure of railroading in the documents of the "presidents" of the road, Robert Purvis and Levi Coffin, and of its many "conductors," and their discussion of the "packages" and "freight" shipped by them.

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  • The Quakers of Pennsylvania possibly began the work of the mysterious Underground Railroad; the best known of them was Thomas Garrett (1789-1871), a native of Pennsylvania, who, in 1822, removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he was convicted in 1848 on four counts under the Fugitive Slave Law and was fined $800o; he is said to have helped 2700 slaves to freedom.

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  • Levi Coffin (1798-1877), a native of North Carolina (whose cousin, Vestal Coffin, had established before 1819 a "station" of the Underground near what is now Guilford College, North Carolina), in 1826 settled in Wayne County, Ohio; his home at New Garden (now Fountain City) was the meeting point of three "lines" from Kentucky; and in 1847 he removed to Cincinnati, where his labours in bringing slaves out of the South were even more successful.

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  • The beds lie several (for the most part four to six) hundred feet underground and are of disputed origin.

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  • Many streams are " disappearing," part of their course being through underground tunnels.

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  • The surface of some, as notably the Mostarsko Blato, lying west of Mostar, is marshy, and in spring forms a lake; others are watered by streams which disappear in swallow-holes of the rock, and make their way by underground channels either to the sea or the Narenta.

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  • In the museum at Serajevo there is a large entomological collection, including the remarkable Pogonus anophthalmus, from the underground Karst caves.

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  • The aconite has a short underground stem, from which dark-coloured tapering roots descend.

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  • The Mithraic temples of Roman times were artificial grottoes (spelaea) wholly or partially underground, in imitation of the original selcuded mountain caverns of Asia.

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  • The simplicity and smallness of the Mithraic temples are to be accounted for by structural and financial reasons; an underground temple was difficult to construct on a large scale, and the worshippers of Mithras were usually from the humbler classes.

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  • Several members of the order are used medicinally for the strong purging properties of the milky juice (latex) which they contain; scammony is the dried latex from the underground stem of Convolvulus Scarnmonia, a native of the Levant, while jalap is the product of the tubercles of Exogonium Purga, a native of Mexico.

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  • Convolvulus arvensis (bindweed) is a pest in fields and gardens on account of its wide-spreading underground stem, and many of the dodders (Cuscuta) cause damage to crops.

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  • They are generally perennial herbs with a creeping underground stem and erect, unbranched, aerial stems, bearing slender Juncus effusus, common rush.

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  • In front of the castle proper are three ditches, the innermost of which can be reached from the interior of the castle by a complicated system of underground passages.

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  • The Metropolitan and the District lines within London are for the most part underground (this feature supplying the title of " the Underground " familiarly applied to both systems); the tunnels being constructed of brick.

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  • The Underground Electric Railways Company, which acquired a controlling influence over these concerns, undertook the construction of a great power station at Chelsea; while the Metropolitan Company, which had fallen into line with the District (not without dispute over the system of electrification to be adopted) erected a station at Neasden on the Aylesbury branch.

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  • Beneath them are extensive underground railway sidings.

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  • The term 1 is not limited to underground operations, but includes also surface excavations, as in placer mining and open-air workings of coal and ore deposits by methods similar to quarrying, and boring operations for oil, natural gas or brine.

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  • Finally, the surface topography will often throw much light on the underground structure.

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  • Information of this sort obtained by surface exploration is often as conclusive as similar information obtained from underground workings.

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  • In many cases underground exploration is necessary.

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  • While the information obtained by surface explorations is always valuable, and sometimes conclusive, as to the value of the deposit, it is usually necessary to supplement Under- Ex- and confirm it by underground work.

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  • In the case of such altered deposits surface exploration alone is likely to be misleading, and it is important to push the underground exploration far enough to reach the unaltered part of the deposit, or at least deep enough to make it certain that there is a sufficient quantity of altered or enriched ore to form the basis of profitable mining operations.

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  • It is, however, often advisable that the money spent in surface or underground exploration should at the beginning be spent for information alone.

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  • As soon as it appears reasonably certain that the property is workable the mine will be opened by one or more shafts, drifts or tunnels, and the underground passages for active mining operations will be started.

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  • For deep workings the milling method is usually employed, in which the ore is excavated in funnel-shaped pits, each of which connects with underground haulage roads by a shaft.

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  • The size, shape and design of the cars depend on the size of the mine passage and of the hoisting compartments of the shafts; on whether the cars are to be trammed by hand or hauled in trains; whether they are loaded by shovel or by gravity from a chute; and whether they are to be hoisted to the surface or used only for underground transport.

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  • The cost of underground haulage is lessened by the use of cars of large capacity.

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  • Wooden rails, protected by iron straps, are sometimes used on underground roads for temporary traffic; but steel rails, similar to, though lighter than, those employed for railways are the rule.

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  • On a smaller scale hoisting is also necessary for sinking shafts and winzes and for various underground services.

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  • In mining regions where 'water transportation is interrupted during certain months of the year the mineral must be stored underground, or in great stock-piles on the surface.

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  • Cornish pumps are economical in running expenses, provided the driving engine is of proper design and the disadvantages incurred in conveying steam underground are avoided.

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  • Condensers are always required for underground pumps.

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  • The air underground remains throughout the year at nearly the same temperature, and is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the outside air.

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  • The efficiency of such ventilating furnaces is low, and they cannot safely be used in mines producing fire-damp. They are sometimes the cause of underground fires, and they are always a source of danger when by any chance the ventilating current becomes reversed, in which case the products of combustion, containing large quantities of carbon dioxide, will be drawn into the mine to the serious danger of the men.

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  • As he is called upon to construct lines of transport, both underground and on the surface, works for water-supply and drainage, and buildings for the handling, storage and treatment of ore, he must be trained to some extent as a civil engineer.

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  • These miners' schools (Bergschule, ecoles des mineurs) give elementary instruction in chemistry, physics, mechanics, mineralogy, geology and mathematics and drawing, as well as in such details of the art of mining as will best supplement the practical information already acquired in underground work.

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  • This danger can be reached only in small degree by laws and inspection; but the safety of the men must depend upon the skill and care of the miners themselves and the officers in charge of the underground work.

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  • A fire underground speedily becomes formidable, not only in coal but also in metal mines, on account of the large quantity of timber used to support the excavations.

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  • Underground fires may sometimes be .extinguished by direct attack with water.

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  • The difficulty of extinguishing an underground fire in this way is, however, very great, as on account of the poisonous products of combustion it is impossible to attack it except in the rear, and even there the men are always in great danger from the reversal of the FIG.

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  • Further, the burning underground work.

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  • The mine workings may also be flooded Flooding of by large bodies of underground water.

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  • When the presence of underground bodies of water is known or suspected, advance bore-holes should radiate from the end of the advancing working place so as to give warning of the position of the body of water, these holes being of such length as to ensure a safe, thickness of solid rock.

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  • The world which he governed was a mountain; the creatures whom he had made lived underground.

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  • Gripping and draining ploughs are employed in opening the grips and trenches necessary both in surface and underground drainage.

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  • North of Katif it is desert and only inhabited by nomads; at Katif, however, and throughout the district to the south bordering on the Gulf of Bahrein there are ample supplies of underground water, welling up in abundant springs often at a high temperature, and bringing fertility to an extensive district of which El Hofuf, a town of 15,000 to 20,000 inhabitants, is the most important centre.

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  • Akhdar is wonderful and is in striking contrast to the barrenness of so much of the coast; water issues in perennial springs from many rocky clefts, and is carefully husbanded by the ingenuity of the people; underground channels, known here as faluj, precisely similar to the kanat or karez of Persia and Afghanistan, are also largely used.

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  • It is a fairly prosperous city, supplied with admirable water by an underground aqueduct from the Hindieh canal, a few miles to the north, which also serves to water the gardens in the deep dry bed of the former lake.

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  • The underground stems are slender and creeping; their vertical roots enlarge and form turnip-shaped tubers.

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  • The great wealth of Styria, however, lies underground.

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  • He is always associated with his brother Trophonius as a wonderful architect, the constructor of underground shrines and grottos for the reception of hidden treasure.

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  • On this spot was the oracle of Trophonius in an underground cave; those who wished to consult it first offered the sacrifice of a ram and called upon the name of Agamedes.

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  • The underground stems (rhizomes or tubers) are rich in starch; from that of Arum maculatum Portland arrowroot was formerly extensively prepared by pounding with water and then straining; the starch was deposited from the strained liquid.

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  • He adopts the karez (or, Persian, kandt) system of underground irrigation, as does the Ghilzai, and brings every drop of water that he can find to the surface; but it cannot be said that he is more successful than the Ghilzai.

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  • Yet it may be thought that the usual instinct of the " diggingwasps " to capture and store up food in an underground burrow for the benefit of offspring which they will never see is even more surprising.

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  • They feed entirely by suction, and the majority of the species pierce plant tissues and suck sap. The leaves of plants are for the most part the objects of attack, but many aphids and scale-insects pierce stems, and some go underground and feed on roots.

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  • The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

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  • In this portion of the pit are generally placed the furnaces for ventilation, and the boilers required for working steam engines underground, as well as the stables and lamp cabin.

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  • The substitution of machinery for hand labour in cutting coal has long been a favourite problem with inventors, the earliest plan being that of Michael Meinzies, in 1761, who proposed to work a heavy pick underground by power transmitted from an engine at the surface, through the agencies of spear-rods and chains passing over pulleys; but none of the methods suggested proved to be practically successful until the general introduction of compressed air into mines furnished a convenient motive power, susceptible of being carried to considerable distances without any great loss of pressure.

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  • Where the load has to be hauled up a rising gradient, underground engines, driven by steam or compressed air or electric motors, are used.

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  • Underground boilers placed near the up-cast pit so that the smoke and gases help the ventilating furnace have been largely used but are now less favourably regarded than formerly.

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  • The use of small auxiliary blowing ventilators underground, for carrying air into workings away from the main circuits, which was largely advocated at one time, has lost its popularity, but a useful substitute has been found in the induced draught produced by jets of compressed air or high-pressure water blowing into ejectors.

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  • The lighting of underground workings in collieries is closely connected with the subject of ventilation.

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  • Underground fires are not uncommon accidents in coal-mines.

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  • The yield per man on the working faces was 4.5 tons, and for the whole of the working force underground, o 846 tons, which is not less than that realized in shallower mines.

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  • The valley in which the city lies has no opening to the coast, and the water finds its way, often only with much care and artificial aid, through underground passages (katavothra) to the sea.

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  • Although the lake is fed by many small mountain torrents, it has no visible outlet, but probably communicates by an underground channel with one of the rivers which drain the Cordillera.

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  • This is navigable for native boats throughout the year to the point where it sinks underground in Karen-ni.

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  • The cenotes or underground reservoirs were the important factors in locating the ruins of northern Yucatan.

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  • Boring for underground water supply to be used in irrigation was tried on a small scale.

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  • They belong to the 3rd-2nd centuries B.C. A tomb outside the town of the 6th century s.c., discovered in 1898, consisted of a round underground chamber, roofed with gradually projecting slabs of stone.

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  • Lichtenstein has established the fact that from the egg of the Aphis of Pistachio galls, Anopleura lentisci, is hatched an apterous insect (the gall-founder), which gives birth to young Aphides (emigrants), and that these, having acquired wings, fly to the roots of certain grasses (Bromus sterilis and Hordeum vulgare), and by budding underground give rise to several generations of apterous insects, whence finally comes a winged brood (the pupifera).

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  • At a subsequent confederation, held at Lublin in June, Zebrzydowski was reinforced by another great nobleman, Stanislaus Stadnicki, called the Devil, who "had more crimes on his conscience than hairs on his head," and was in the habit of cropping the ears and noses of small squires and chaining his serfs to the walls of his underground dungeons for months at a time.

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  • There are no affluents of any considerable size, and the only outlets are underground passages or katavothra extending for many miles through the calcareous rocks.

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  • When the rock is much removed from the surface, or inconveniently situated for open workings, it is quarried in underground chambers reached by levels driven through the intervening mass and across or along the beds.

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  • Their range in space, including carriage by birds, may be coextensive with the distribution of water, but it is not known what height of temperature or how much chemical adulteration of the water they can sustain, how far they can penetrate underground, nor what are the limits of their activity between the floor and the surface of aquatic expanses, fresh or saline.

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  • He is notable for having constructed the underground halls at Welbeck Abbey, and for his retiring habits of life, which gave occasion for some singular stories.'

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  • They are very prolific, the female producing several litters in the year, each consisting of over a dozen blind young; and these, when not more than three weeks old, are turned out of the parental burrow to form underground homes for themselves.

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  • In 1530 he was again seized by the duke and imprisoned for four years underground, in the castle of Chillon, till he was released in 1536 by the Bernese, who then wrested Vaud from the duke.

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  • The drainage of the region under which the caverns lie is mostly underground.

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  • According to Humboldt's theory there is a deep rent in the earth's crust about the 19th parallel through which at different periods the underground fires have broken at various points between the largest of this class, and has the town and port of Carmen at its western extremity.

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  • An interesting species of the last is the leaf-cutting ant (Eciton) which lives in large underground colonies and feeds upon a fungus produced by leaf-cuttings stored in subterranean passages to promote fermentation.

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  • The northern part of the peninsula is composed largely of a weak limestone; here much of the lowland drainage is underground, forming many sink-holes (swallOwholes).

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  • He was already known in England by his book, Underground Russia, which had been published in London in 1882.

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  • The original inhabitants were Picts, evidence of whose occupation still exists in numerous weems or underground houses, chambered mounds, barrows or burial mounds, brochs or round towers, and stone circles and standing stones.

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  • It is also known as the underground onion, from its habit of producing its bulbs beneath the surface.

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  • The north-east barrier was pierced by underground passages (katavothra) which carried off the overflow from Copais.

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  • The great wealth of Silesia, however, lies underground, in the shape of large stores of coal and other minerals, which have been worked ever since the 12th century.

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  • A busy manufacturing activity has long been united with the underground industries of Silesia, and the province in this respect is hardly excelled by any other part of Prussia.

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  • He next investigated the sources of the Sutlej, made hydrographic investigations of the Manasarowar lakes, with the neighbouring underground waterways, and proceeded thence to Gartok.

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  • Another curious natural feature of the Lesse is that on reaching the hill of Han it disappears underground, reappearing about 1 m.

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  • Indeed, it has been proposed to support such roofs to a great extent upon suspension principles, the internal columns of support being utilized for conducting the rain-water off the roof to underground drains or reservoirs.

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  • Division, or partition, is usually resorted to in the case of tufted growing plants, chiefly perennial herbs; they may be evergreen, as chamomile or thrift, or when dormant may consist only of underground crowns, as larkspur or lily-of-thevalley; but in either case the old tufted plant being dug up may be divided into separate pieces, each furnished with roots, and, when replanted, generally starting on its own account without much check.

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  • There must, however, be a joint at the underground part where it is to be tongued and pegged, and at least one sound bud in each exposed part, from which a shoot may be developed to form the top of the young plant.

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  • They are found living saprophytically (in part parasitically) underground in forests.

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  • The underground mycelium in many cases spreads wider and wider each year, often in a circular manner, and the sporophores springing from it appear in the form of a ring - the so called fairy rings.

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  • Its celebrated underground wine cellar has been immortalized by Wilhelm Hauff in his Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller.

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  • The Hindus assert that the stream joins the other two rivers underground, and in a subterraneous temple below the fort a little moisture trickling from the rocky walls is pointed out as the waters of the Saraswati.

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  • Since the introduction of deep-level electric railways in London and elsewhere, hydraulic passenger lifts on a large scale have been brought into use for conveying passengers up and down from the street level to the underground stations.

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  • As there is no highland area draining into Kordofan, the underground reservoirs are dependent on the local rainfall, and a large number of the wells are dry during many months.

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  • Meanwhile mining below the bottom of the pits by means of shalts and underground tunnels had been commenced; but the full development of modern methods dates from the year 1889 when Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit, who had already secured control of the De Beers mine, acquired also the control of the Kimberley mine, and shortly afterwards consolidated the entire group in the hands of the De Beers Company.

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  • The karez is a system of underground channelling which usually taps a sub-surface water supply at the foot of some of the many rugged and apparently waterless hills which cover the face of the country.

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  • The water is not brought to the surface, but is carried over long distances by an underground channel or drain, which is constructed by sinking shafts at intervals along the required course and connecting the shafts by tunnelling.

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  • In some cases the leaves are reduced to mere scales - cataphyllary leaves; they are produced abundantly upon underground shoots.

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  • Almost all the skeletons and remains of bodies found in the city were discovered in similar situations, in cellars or underground apartments - those who had sought refuge in flight having apparently for the most part escaped from destruction, or having perished under circumstances where their bodies were easily recovered by the survivors.

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  • They carried double-edged swords and short daggers for use hand to hand, the steel of which was hardened b y being buried underground; their defensive armour was a light Gallic shield or a round wicker buckler, and greaves of felt round their legs.

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  • In this case the mouths of the underground main pipe-drains are stopped up, and the water in them and the secondary drains thus caused to stand back until it has risen sufficiently near the surface.

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  • Aspidistra lurida is a favourite pot-plant, bearing large green or white-striped leaves on an underground stem, and small dark purplish, cup-shaped flowers close to the ground.

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  • In rare cases the main axis is unbranched and ends in a flower, as, for instance, in the tulip, where scale-leaves, forming the underground bulb, green foliage-leaves and coloured floral leaves are borne on one and the same axis.

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  • For several years preceding the Civil War it was a station on the "underground railway" and the headquarters of "the Western Anti-Slavery Society," which published here the AntiSlavery Bugle.

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  • A companion sanctuary of Hecate was constructed underground by Diocletian.

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  • The Torres Bermejas (Vermilion Towers), also on Monte Mauror, are a well-preserved Moorish fortification, with underground cisterns, stables, and accommodation for a garrison of 200 men.

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  • The curious carvings and ramparts, at Burghead on the coast of Elgin, and the underground stone houses locally called "wheems," in which Roman fragments have been found, may represent the native forms of dwelling, &c., and some of the "Late Celtic" metal-work may belong to this age.

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  • Eastward of the Archean gneiss in the west of Sutherland the effect of enormous underground pressure has been to upraise masses of the ancient gneiss and Torridonian sandstone and thrust them westward over the younger rocks.

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  • Great part of southern and western Phrygia is drained by the Maeander with its tributaries, Sandykly Tchai (Glaucus), Banaz Tchai, Kopli Su (Hippurius), and Tchuruk Su (Lycus); moreover, some upland plains on the south, especially the Dombai Ova (Aulocra), communicate by underground channels with the IVlaeander.

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  • The underground wealth is not known to be great.

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  • The city was a station of the "Underground Railroad."

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  • The leaf-cutter bees (Megachile) - which differ from Andrena and Halictus and agree with Osmia, Apis and Bombus in having elongate tongues - cut neat circular disks from leaves, using them for lining the cells of their underground nests.

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  • She starts her nest underground or in a surface depression, forming a number of waxen cells, roughly globular in shape and arranged irregularly.

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  • Certain Ghilzai clans are specially famous for their skill in the construction of the karez or underground water-channel.

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  • The plan, however, would be a very favourable one for spectroscopic work and for the convenient installation of an underground room of constant temperature.

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  • Peterboro became a station on the "underground railroad"; and after 1850 Smith furnished money for the legal expenses of persons charged with infractions of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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  • The effects of temperature being so marked on the readings of the horizontal and vertical force magnetographs, it is usual to place the instruments either in an underground room or in a room which, by means of double walls and similar devices, is protected as much as possible from temperature changes.

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  • Salvatore, with underground rock-cut chambers below it, used as a baptistery (?) by the early Christians, though the walls are decorated with paintings of a decidedly pagan nature.

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  • Water comes from karez or underground channels and streams from Varak, fed from the Sikhe Lake, an ancient reservoir which preserves the snow waters on the summit of the mountain.

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  • Mining is the chief occupation of its inhabitants, of whom about 7000 are employed underground.

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  • A law establishing an eighthour day for underground miners and smelter employees (1899) was unanimously voided by the state supreme court, but in 1902 the people amended the constitution and ordered the general assembly to re-enact the law for labourers in mines, smelters and dangerous employments.

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  • Along the lower course many underground streams from the mountains break out as springs and empty into the Pecos.

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  • The phenomena connected with the propagation of electric signals by underground insulated wires had already engaged the attention of Faraday in 1854, who pointed out the Leyden-jar-like action of an insulated subterranean wire.

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  • A year or two later he began work in the mines and earned his living underground for 16 years, often working 12 and 14 hours a day.

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  • They are grass-like herbs, sometimes annual, but more often persist by means of an underground stem from which spring erect solitary or clustered, generally three-sided aerial stems, with leaves in three rows.

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  • The neighbouring Eutaw Springs issue first from the foot of a hill and form a large stream of clear, cool water, but this, only a few yards away, again rushes underground to reappear about a m.

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  • Cable communication with Europe by way of Buenos Aires was opened in 1875, and is now maintained by means of two underground cables across the Andes, 32 m.

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  • Hence it is that even the holy Ganges resorts underground once in the year to the source of the Cauvery, to purge herself from the pollution contracted from the crowd of sinners who have bathed in her waters.

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  • Fish are scarce in inner Persia; salmon trout and mud-trout are plentiful in some of the mountain streams. Many underground canals are frequented by carp and roach.

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  • In the Iliad the word denotes an underground prison, as far below Hades as earth is below heaven, in which those who rebelled against the will of Zeus were confined.

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  • The deposit was worked as an underground mine until 1957, when it became an open pit mine.

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  • Herodotus himself went through the upper chambers, but was not permitted to visit those underground, which he was told contained the tombs of the kings who had built the labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles.

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  • A more ancient Christian monument than any of the convents or churches is the catacombs, which extend a great distance underground and are in many respects finer than those at Rome.

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  • It is derived from the hills in the neighbourhood of Avellino, and is thought to be the effluent of an underground lake.

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  • The animal lives mostly underground, burrowing in soft earth, and feeds on ants and other small animals.

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  • In the winter it covers the orifice of this burrow with a layer of silk, and lies dormant underground until the return of spring.

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  • Superficially, each is a simple rolling plateau, much broken by erosion (though considerable undissected areas drained by underground channels remain), especially in the east, and dotted with hills; some of these are residual outliers of the eroded Mississippian limestones to the west, and others are the summits of an archaean topography above which sedimentary formations that now constitute the valley-floor about them were deposited and then eroded.

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  • Fowler was engineer of the London Metropolitan railway, the pioneer of underground railways, and noteworthy in that it was mostly made not by tunnelling, but by excavating from the surface and then covering in the permanent way; and he lived to be one of the engineers officially connected with the deep tunnelling "tube" system extensively adopted for electric railways in London.

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  • Fortunately good water is tolerably plentiful; for, though the wells are mostly undrinkable, and even the famous Zamzam water only available for medicinal or religious purposes, the underground conduit from beyond Arafa, completed by Sultan Selim II.

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  • Thus the figure and area of a surface watershed may not be coincident with that of the corresponding underground watershed; and the flow in any watercourse, especially from a small watershed, may, by reason of underground flow from or into other watersheds, be disproportionate to the area apparently drained by that watercourse.

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  • Mountain areas of io,000 acres and upwards, largely covered with moorland, upon nearly imper meable rocks with few water-bearing fissures, yield in temperate climates, towards the end of the driest seasons, and therefore solely from underground, between a fifth and .a quarter of a cubic foot per second per 1000 acres.

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  • The positions of springs are determined by permeable depressions in the surface of the ground below the general level of saturation, and frequently also by the holding up of that level locally by comparatively impermeable strata, sometimes combined with a fault or a synclinal fold of the strata, forming the more permeable portion into an underground basin or channel lying within comparatively impermeable boundaries.

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  • On a small scale, however, springs are fairly distributed over the United Kingdom, for there are no formations, except perhaps blown sand, which do not vary greatly in their resistance to the percolation of water, and therefore tend to produce overflow from underground at some points above the valley levels.

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  • It is a notable peculiarity of the Upper and Middle Chalk formations that below their present valleys the underground water passes more freely than elsewhere.

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  • In practice it is usual in chalk formations to imitate artificially the action of such underground watercourses, by driving from the well small tunnels, or " adits " as they are called, below the water-level, to intercept fissures and water-bearing beds, and thus to extend the collecting area.

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  • Next in importance to the Chalk formations as a source of underground water supply comes the Trias or New Red Sandstone, consisting in Great Britain of two main divisions, the Keuper above and the Bunter below.

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  • With the exception of the Red Marls forming the upper part of the Keuper, most of the New Red Sandstone is permeable, and some parts contain, when saturated, even more water than solid chalk; but, just as in the case of the chalk, a well or borehole in the sandstone yields very little water unless it strikes a fissure; hence, in New Red Sandstone, also, it is a common thing to form underground chambers or adits in search of additional fissures, and sometimes to sink many vertical boreholes with the same object in view.

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  • In this manner an underground compartment is formed, the bottom of which is natural, and the sides partly natural and partly artificial, both offering high resistance to the passage of water.

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  • It is often hidden, sometimes underground, and may only be brought to light by excavation.

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  • Agricultural or field drainage consists in the freeing of the soil from stagnant and superfluous water by means of surface or underground channels.

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  • For several reasons this method is ineffective, and, where possible, is now superseded by underground drainage by means of pipe-tiles.

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  • Instead of persisting in fruitless attempts to dry extensive areas by a few dexterous cuts, he insisted on the necessity of providing every field that needed draining at all with a complete system of parallel underground channels, running in the line of the greatest slope of the ground, and so near to each other that the whole rain falling at any time upon the surface should sink down and be carried off by the drains.

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  • Near the crest of anticlines is commonly an enriched portion of the ground in mineralized districts; and, in the case of water supply, the tilt of the strata determines the direction of the underground flowage.

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  • The gas-producers constructed by Messrs Siemens Brothers, from 1856 onwards, were provided with a kind of brick chimney; on the top of this there was a horizontal iron tube, continued into an iron down-draught, and only from this the underground flues were started which sent the gas into the single furnaces.

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  • In eastern or "locked" Arcadia these heights run in parallel courses intersected by cross-ridges, enclosing a series of upland plains whose waters have no egress save by underground channels or zerethra.

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  • The great anteater is terrestrial in habits, not burrowing underground like armadillos.

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  • The use of the old cisterns within the walls has been almost entirely abandoned, and the water is led to basins in vaulted chambers (Taxim), from which it is distributed by underground conduits to the fountains situated in the different quarters of the city.

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  • In the three genera, Ophioglossum, Botrychium and Helminthostachys, there is an underground rhizome, from which one leaf or a few leaves with sheathing bases are produced annually; the roots arise in more or less definite relation to the insertion of the leaves.

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  • Kazvin has many baths and cisterns fed by underground canals.

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  • The united river ran north, disappeared underground in the Sahara and reached the Mediterranean at "the quicksands of the gulph of Sidra."

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  • American bee-keepers, therefore, find it necessary to provide underground cellars, into which the bees are carried in the fall of each year, remaining there till work begins in the following spring.

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  • The underground salt water flow promised once to be a resource of value, especially in the vicinity of Lincoln, but has proved of little or no value in comparison with the great salt-beds of Kansas.

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  • It is commonly believed that of underground water, and generally of artesian water, even the driest counties have an abundance.

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  • Some farmers on tile uplands between the valleys in western Nebraska irrigate by means of wind-mills, and although the underground water is 175 ft.

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  • Lane spent considerable time in the south-eastern counties, and across these an " underground railroad " ran, by which slaves were conducted from Kansas to Iowa and freedom.

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  • It is situated between fine cliffs in which, here and there, the sea has worn archways, pinnacles and other curious forms. The small stream traversing the valley, at the extremity of which Etretat lies, flows underground for some distance but rises to the surface on the beach.

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  • To these, underground organs the name Stigmaria is applied; they are not clearly distinguishable from the corresponding parts of Sigillaria.

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  • In 1910 he returned to England, and took up the position of managing director of the traffic combine which included the Underground Electric Railway Co.

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  • His other publications included Pharmacopee universelle (1697), Traite universel des drogues simples (1698), Traite de l'antimoine (1707), together with a number of papers contributed to the French Academy, one of which offered a chemical and physical explanation of underground fires, earthquakes, lightning and thunder.

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  • He discovered that heat is evolved when iron filings and sulphur are rubbed together to a paste with water, and the artificial volcan de Lemery was produced by burying underground a considerable quantity of this mixture, which he regarded as a potent agent in the causation of volcanic action.

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  • The principal underground wealth of Prussian Saxony consists of its salt and its brown coal, of both of which it possesses larger stores than any other part of the German empire.

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  • I told him a vital part of our group had already availed themselves of the alias names and gone underground.

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  • The walls of the underground facility were trembling from a shockwave of power that made her Guardian senses hum with danger.

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  • Then there was the Schism and an era of disaster and grief, where his world collided with—then severed from—the human one, centuries where he was forced into the underground world as a prostitute, a beggar, a thief.

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  • His enthusiasm for the underground world only made her feel more nauseous.

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  • She went to the workstation monitoring the underground systems and saw with relief that the underground lair was functioning as normal.

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  • He sensed a fear as deep as his fear of the underground, only he doubted a woman accustomed to the pure inner city of Tiyan ever experienced such fear or pain.

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  • She was a brilliant hacker and familiar enough with the underground internet forums to find him new hunting grounds and blood exchanges.

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  • Sarin is the nerve agent that was later used in the terrorist attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995.

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  • Sessions featuring ample was good featuring a booming underground.

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  • Of a tall from an underground aquifer what we do.

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  • We're just sitting our lazy asses deep underground, scooping the surface for idiotic whitehat trash to mess with.

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  • The toads live in underground burrows and make electronic bleeps audible from a distance of 30 meters.

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  • Cradle of Fear Fans of the underground UK horror scene should be familiar with the low budget horror auteur Alex Chandon.

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  • The strong hook and heavy backbeat have made this an extremely in demand underground club track for many years.

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  • Wasn't it funny how the library had an underground tunnel to the local brothel?

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  • Id at least expect him to have some small underground bunker big enough to live in, not some hole in the ground.

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  • Food is stored in underground burrows or occasionally in disused bird nests.

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  • Sainsbury's underground car park is next to the high level Lombard car park entrance in Princess Way.

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  • As a Commando squad, players are tasked with infiltrating underground catacombs, sabotaging the separatists and even attempting assassination.

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  • Rock salt is extracted from underground caves by flooding, then evaporation.

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  • The high light is a view of the huge underground cavern which has recently been proved to be Bronze Age.

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  • So great were their numbers that they quickly filled the immense underground cavern and forced the busy workmen to abandon their tasks.

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  • The interior is quite impressive, with a glass catwalk leading over an underground wine cellar.

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  • The ruins opposite the main gate were the garrison's quarters, and 3 underground cisterns kept the castle supplied with water.

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  • I myself have never been trapped underground with 5 scantily clothed females (a la Descent) anyway.

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  • The park tops an underground carpark for 10,000 cars, the revenues from which will return to the public coffers.

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  • At one of these sales he meets a fellow enthusiast who years later is to find success in underground comics.

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  • What better reading material to take you there than a collection of some of the best underground comix to come out of Britain.

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  • Two journeys on underground - one delayed - I'm a frustrated commuter.

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  • Why is a 400 meter cordon needed around a deep underground station like Warren Street?

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  • The crop consists of the large starchy corms (short swollen underground stems ).

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  • All the above makes for an expansive independent label that possesses courage in their convictions and a determination to raise underground awareness.

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  • We view the site of an underground prison, monastic foundations, a Jacobean Hall, a 16th gatehouse and an 18th century courthouse.

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  • Send up a prayer for far-off people from the underground crypt in the Abbey.

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  • He did not repeat an earlier source that the water for the Monks comes in an underground culvert from Tetbury some 100 ft higher.

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  • Between 1919 and 1933 the US introduced the Prohibition, which banned alcohol and resulted in the creation of underground drinking dens.

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  • They said a wheel broke on a curve as the train approached the Jesus underground station and two train carriages derailed in the tunnel.

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  • Americans in general becoming an underground they decide anyone's guilt the city's downtown.

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  • I imagined they were responding to some report of a blocked drain, by sucking out the underground pipes along the road.

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  • The tower retains rare medieval features groin vaulting, timber roof structure, interior well and an underground dungeon.

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  • There is also the legend of a huge eel, said to inhabit the underground pools.

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  • It has been extensively embanked, and many of its London tributaries now flow underground.

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  • Later in the raid, he arranged the safe and orderly evacuation of some 3000 people from the burning Moorgate Underground Station.

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  • New York punk through to sonic experimentation & Sixties girl groups to the latest leftfield & underground classics.

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  • There had been a ' muffled explosion ' in one of the nearby Underground tunnels, and they were evacuating.

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  • Cover the bottle with black paper or silver foil to make the worms think they are underground!

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  • An excellent lift system includes two high speed underground funiculars.

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  • During a one-hour tour visitors learn about the history of the sewers before donning plastic gloves and hard hats to explore underground.

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  • Then, she has sudden flash of herself underground, screaming, covered in yellow goo.

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  • Why not take this opportunity to take your children, under 5's included, to the underground grotto for their special gift.

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  • The final virtual space is a vast underground hangar containing a floating field of numbers, all of which are estimates of Iraqi casualties.

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  • Without this technology the job would be similar to looking for needles in an underground haystack.

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  • Jonzi D has been at the forefront of British underground hip-hop since its inception in the early 1980s.

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  • The wine was matured in a mixture of French and American oak hogsheads for 14 months in the underground cellars at Magill.

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  • The program provides specialist knowledge in tunnel, surface and underground excavation design, and applied hydrogeology and risk assessment.

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  • Water tracing is a technique used to investigate underground hydrology, and can provide this crucial missing information.

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  • Occasioned by the air being rendered impure from the smoke of a fire engine, placed about 100 feet underground.

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  • An underground stream emits waves of energy vertically to the surface and two ' sidebands ' at 45 degrees inclination.

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  • In September 1819, a group of eleven men became trapped underground at the pit following a sudden inrush of water.

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  • Why are these young men and women prepared to risk serious injury or even death in order to explore these vast underground labyrinths?

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  • Part of the tour includes visiting the underground labyrinth of tunnels which were part of a vast industrial complex 4,000 years ago.

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  • This underground lair is host to a variety of nights for the more hardcore among you.

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  • The wine was matured on its yeast lees in bottle for at least 30 months in underground cellars.

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  • The water is heated by the hot magma which is underground.

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  • We will inherit a terrible mess on the London Underground.

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  • The underground metro connects most places in central Shanghai, running under the river to Pudong.

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  • Flooding on Sunday also trapped 69 miners underground at a mine in Jiaohe city in China's northeastern Jilin province, Xinhua reported.

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  • Open pit mining finished during the early 1800's and was replaced by small-scale underground mining at the Mona Mine in 1811.

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  • The sensors will eventually be integrated into a wireless sensor mote for use in monitoring the health of the London underground system.

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  • Pillow fight club is a growing underground movement in which members arrange to turn up at a public place armed only with pillows.

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  • Gigs were plenty and underground punk rock nihilism was at its frenzied height.

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  • Until the underground opened, people have had to hire a carriage, or catch an omnibus to get to their destination.

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  • The third story is of a large underground passage in the field to the south of the Abbey.

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  • The interconnection tunnel I was standing in seemed to have a larger diameter than a standard underground station foot passageway.

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  • In addition to secure, underground parking, Bramley Grange also provides a private swimming pavilion for the use of residents.

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  • In fact there are two terminals under construction, the main building plus satellite B connected by an underground people mover.

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  • I discovered and documented locations for apparent underground transmitters of polarized magnetic photon beams out into space.

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  • Business planned to build gas terminal, which would be linked by an undersea pipeline to underground storage facilities.

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  • Now the total length of underground pipelines exceeds some 30,000 km.

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  • So, when the wall moves, the slab must move with it, along with all the underground oil piping.

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  • It will be complemented by underground car parking and will provide around 100,000 sq ft of decked landscaped plaza.

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  • OsmaDrain Manufactured from unplasticised polyvinyl chloride (PVC-U ), the OsmaDrain underground drainage system is available in 82mm, 110mm and 160mm diameters.

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  • Benefits further include 24 hour porterage, an indoor swimming pool and underground parking.

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  • In some places of work and in certain shops, and on the London Underground, smoking is altogether prohibited.

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  • In paragraph 3.21, the Consultation Document specifically proscribes involvement by the RAIB in investigating events such as the Kings Cross Underground fire.

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  • Work is already under way to remove 40 pylons in east London and put the cables underground.

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  • Two large water mains had both ruptured, and flowing underground had formed a quicksand.

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  • We already have a nascent global underground railroad of sorts, thanks partly to mobility within the communion.

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  • Link The underground railroad Curious about how slaves escaped?

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  • Players can enjoy 100 carefully reconstructed miles of underground tracks.

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  • A couple of groups were unlucky enough to get soaking wet in the underground reservoir.

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  • They have an underground rhizome that sends up shoots along its length.

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  • Both are produced from creeping underground rhizomes which can go down about 1.5 meters.

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  • However, contrary to what the noble Lord said, bus ridership is up and London Underground is carrying more passengers than ever before.

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  • Come along and see the changing rooms, the warm-up area, the underground roadway and the players ' tunnel.

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  • Thing is, the London Underground is a pretty scary place, once the swarms of people start to dry up.

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  • Was it actually an attempt to go underground - to make the project more secretive?

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  • We eventually found the place which turned out to be a rather seedy looking underground car park.

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  • The company was supposed to build a septic tank which would be buried underground, with only a small control panel visible.

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  • The excavation of trenches for new drainage and underground sewer and gas tanks was observed.

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  • He made his way through the bombing, to a deep underground shelter in the basement of the Herbert Art Gallery.

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  • The nearest London underground stations are St Paul's or Barbican.

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  • Rhizome A creeping underground stem, sometimes fleshy, that stores nutrients.

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  • These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.

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  • Children taking part in the hour long safety session will learn about the hazards of playing near substations, underground cables and overhead lines.

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  • Underground cables carry electricity at 33,000 Volts from La Collette power station to the five primary substations on the island.

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  • Advertisement your story continues below The underground subway connects the three platforms at the station.

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  • June 2001 Commencing with London Underground area, officers begin to get issued with yellow high-visibility tabards as opposed to the orange ones.

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  • Fuel Most resorts use large underground storage tanks to fuel lifts, which poses a risk to the environment through a potential for leakage.

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  • As with other underground time capsules, it is under the skin that this digital time capsule projects itself into the future.

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  • Some miners used this as an excuse for smuggling contraband tobacco underground.

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  • Oh, and an underground train, just the one, running between just two stations.

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  • The Hartley Bank Disaster (1862) saw miners trapped underground when their one entrance/exit shaft was blocked.

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  • Habitat Badgers live in setts, a network of underground tunnels which they dig using their strong claws.

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  • The native's traditional homes are underground in order to offer safe refuge from the severe typhoons that ravage the area every autumn.

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  • Apparently, he is exploring a hitherto uncharted underground route on the campus.

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  • From Liverpool Street, take the underground or a taxi to Waterloo.

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  • The Bill will remove the regulated organized element of hunting and drive the unorganized element underground.

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  • How do we know what's going on deep underground?

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  • But the urban music underground is a reality, despite struggling to live up to the expectations of a cohesive independent scene.

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  • Columbarium A building, sometimes at least partly underground, whose walls are full of niches for funerary urns.

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  • Car parking, mostly underground, has been provided for 550 cars.

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  • Conflict with the native Tibetan religion of Bon caused it to go largely underground until its revival in the 11th century.

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  • The biggest problem that most beginning Earth Energy dowsers make is to confuse energy leys with what is actually underground water.

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  • Cheers for everyone who made the trek up to see us rock underground @ The Guild student union!

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  • Trevor Steeples, 46, from West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, was brought to the surface after collapsing underground, but was pronounced dead.

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  • Fresh arrests at the end of summer 1931 forced the organization to go further underground.

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  • Typically apply in first part of medication deemed necessary who lived underground.

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  • He and his wife began a family and assisted the underground railroad.

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  • He is codenamed ' The Next ' - which explains the movie's apparently ungrammatical title - and held in a fortified underground cell.

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  • The facilities include valet parking, game room, a lobby Internet kiosk, and secure, complimentary, underground parking.

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  • It's top secret plans are stored in an underground vault at the Aeronautical Research Station.

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  • Then you could go straight into something like 6 Underground as the main theme... " I aint done no voodoo in years!

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  • A ' smart ' fuse detonates the warhead in the underground bunker.

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  • This is an instinct from its days living in underground warrens.

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  • The union taking place underground, while the bulk of both partners in the symbiosis rises into the air, renders the association a little difficult to see, but there is no doubt that the plants in question do afford each other assistance, forming, as it were, a kind of partnership. The most pronounced case of parasitism, that of Cuscuta, the dodder, which infests particularly clover fields, appears to differ only in degree from those mentioned, for the plant, bare of leaves as it is yet contair.s a little chlorophyll.

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  • Where heavy suburban traffic has to be dealt with, the expedient is occasionally adopted of taking some of the lines round the end in a continuous loop, so that incoming trains can deposit their passengers at an underground platform and immediately proceed on their outward journey.

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  • The underground is used where the congestion of traffic is so great as to demand a railway almost regardless of cost, and where the conditions of surface traffic or of adjoining property are such as to require that the railway shall not obstruct or occupy any ground above the surface.

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  • Into these underground chambers the ants carry seeds of grasses and other plants of which they accumulate large stores.

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  • There are several forms of worker in these species, some with enormous heads, which remain in the underground nests, while their smaller comrades scour the country in search of suitable trees, which they ascend, biting off small circular pieces from the leaves, and carrying them off to the nests.

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  • The severity of this measure led to gross abuses and defeated its purpose; the number of abolitionists increased, the operations of the Underground Railroad became more efficient, and new Personal Liberty Laws were enacted in Vermont (1850), Connecticut (1854), Rhode Island (1854), Massachusetts (1855), Michigan (1855), Maine (1855 and 1857), Kansas (1858) and Wisconsin (1858).

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  • In mines operated through shafts the animals are stabled underground, and when well fed and cared for, thrive notwithstanding their rather abnormal conditions of life.

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  • With a wet, undrained subsoil and a large population of Indians and half-breeds living in crowded quarters, the death-rate has been notoriously high, though the completion of the Valley drainage works in 1900, supplemented by underground sewers in the better parts of the city, and by better sanitation, have recently improved matters.

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  • The Henry Mountains in south-western Utah are peculiar in owing their relief to the doming or blistering up of the plateau strata by the underground intrusion of large bodies or cisterns (laccolites) of lava, now more or less exposed by erosion.

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  • Nor are its dimensions (460 by 345 ft.) such as to place it in the first rank of structures of this class, nor are there any underground chambers below the arena, with devices for raising wild beasts, &c. But, as we learn from the case of their squabble with the people of Nuceria, the games celebrated in the amphitheatre on grand occasions would be visited by large numbers from the neighbouring towns.

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  • The Persian jerboa (Alactaga indica) is also a nocturnal burrowing animal, feeding chiefly on grain, which it stores up in underground repositories, closing these when full, and only drawing upon them when the supply of food above ground is exhausted (see also Jumping Mouse).

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  • For a region with such a small amount of rainfall the rivers are numerous, but none of the streams is navigable, and in many of them during the dry season (and in some of them because of broken stratification) the water in places disappears entirely beneath the sandy bed, and after flowing underground for some distance, breaks out afresh farther on as a river, rivulet or spring.

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  • The dispute between Aphrodite and Persephone for the possession of Adonis, settled by the agreement that he is to spend a third (or half) of the year in the lower world (the seed at first underground and then reappearing above it), finds a parallel in the story of Tammuz and Ishtar (see APHRODITE).

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  • He took a prominent part as a Whig in politics (serving as mayor in 1851), and, impelled by his strong anti-slavery views, actively furthered the work of the "Underground Railroad," of which Detroit was one of the principal "transfer" points.

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  • That means fast, punctual trains; a modernized efficient London Underground; cities not gummed up by congestion.

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  • Needless to say the " well " chilled " Champagne " which had been stored underground for over a year was enthusiastically quaffed !

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  • Link The Underground Railroad Curious about how slaves escaped?

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  • After all, in 1801 there was no underground railroad for Uranus to disrupt !

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  • Initially inspired by the early 90's Hip Hop & underground rave scene.

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  • As we came up the stairs fromt the Underground I suddenly realized just where the hell I was.

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  • Turmeric is a vivid yellow spice which, like ginger, comes from the underground rhizomes of the plant.

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  • Riven by conflict that is now destructive, or which is simply foced underground, the noise at last begins to abate.

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  • The event was a celebration of lesser published, underground limericks which left the 70 strong audience rolling in the aisles.

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  • Evidence of recent seepage of underground water on a crater rim The evidence of freely flowing water early in Mars ' history is dramatic.

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  • These are sinkholes formed by cave-ins over the underground rivers common in the region.

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  • Hours than you underground seemed a sir robert may fields and fierce.

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  • Even the Sunshine Underground can be found snoozing on the leather sofas at the back of Barfly.

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  • In fact it 's one of a few sophomore sets from the soul underground, which I have stumbled across recently.

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  • The nearest London underground stations are St Paul 's or Barbican.

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  • There 's every chance they 're stowed away in an underground food cupboard somewhere.

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  • And excluding the gentle acoustic strum at the end of The Honshu Underground.

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  • Even Rolling Stone, the avatar of the underground music scene, wrote a glowing tribute of Rick 's resurgence.

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  • The native 's traditional homes are underground in order to offer safe refuge from the severe typhoons that ravage the area every autumn.

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  • In fact we even encouraged the underground resistance movements to spread typhus bacilli among their enemies.

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  • Such a defiantly underground stance does not necessarily produce uncommercial music.

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  • How do we know what 's going on deep underground?

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  • The human officers are safely behind the lines in underground bunkers directing the battle.

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  • As it settled down on the floor of the underground cavern John felt intense deja vous.

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  • Underground parking could be more secure - owners can club together for CCTV or security patrols.

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  • Cheers for everyone who made the trek up to see us rock Underground @ The Guild student union !

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  • He and his wife began a family and assisted the Underground Railroad.

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  • He is codenamed ' The Next ' - which explains the movie 's apparently ungrammatical title - and held in a fortified underground cell.

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  • The facilities include valet Parking, game room, a lobby Internet kiosk, and secure, complimentary, underground parking.

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  • It 's top secret plans are stored in an underground vault at the Aeronautical Research Station.

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  • Secure underground parking accessed by lift or stairs, videophone entry to the apartment.

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  • January 1989 A vigilante group " The New York Guardian Angels " begin to patrol London Underground.

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  • For underground sewerage or surface water drainage pipes, vitrified clay pipes are suitable.

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  • Then you could go straight into something like 6 Underground as the main theme... I aint done no voodoo in years !

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  • I was paid by day 's wages and when underground my employment was in wheeling barrows and driving wagons.

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  • The $ 5.6 million film is about a woman trapped in London 's Underground who uncovers a warren of secret tunnels.

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  • The conspiracy group had secret, underground meetings where they discussed their plans.

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  • It took the police department almost three years to overpower the underground circle of crooks.

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  • It is clean burning and safe to store in an underground tank.

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  • An underground fence is invisible as far as you are concerned.

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  • An underground fence has no such limitations.

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  • You will want to consider a number of factors when purchasing an underground fence to keep your pet safe.

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  • Underground fences are generally sold by the area that they cover.

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  • Battery systems are another way in which underground fences differ.

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  • The underground fences work a number of ways.

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  • There are a variety of places on the Internet where you can buy an underground fence.

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  • Invisible Fence is a brand name that is the first name in underground fences.

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  • Dog Fence DIY is a website that will instruct you on how to build your own underground fence at a fraction of the cost of brand names like Invisible Fence.

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  • Pet Safe is another brand of underground fence that can also act as bark control when your pet is outdoors.

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  • Radio Fence is an online retailer that offers several different brands of underground fences to keep your dog safe.

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  • Dog Watch is another underground dog fence brand.

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  • When purchasing an underground fence you have a number of options both online and near you.

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  • The Underland Chronicles series by Suzanne Collins begins with Gregor the Overlander, an adventure book about a boy who wanders through an inner-city underground world.

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  • To combat this reduced availability, some regions are tapping into deep underground reservoirs that are non-renewable to erase the difference between the amount available and the current demand.

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  • Oil and chemical spills are frequent sources of soil contamination, as is the rupture of underground storage tanks.

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  • It can be used any time the coal is less than 200 feet underground.

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  • Herbalists create tinctures, teas and capsules from the roots and underground portion of goldenseal.

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  • The roots and rhizomes, the parts that grow underground, are dried and crushed into a powder or made into a tincture.

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  • No matter how well you seal your basement, it's a fact that these underground areas can be prone to moisture.

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  • Invest in the best lighting you can find to combat the underground feel.

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  • The intrigue of this character is the fact that when you take away the cloak, the underground lair and the impressive technology - Bruce Wayne is just a regular guy.

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  • Truffles grow underground with a color of almost black to off white.

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  • These hydrants are attached to two different lines, which either run under the snow or underground.

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  • Another example involves much of the creativity and collaboration that is a part of the organic underground rap and hip hop scenes.

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  • Ten minutes after descending into the New York underground we submerged again.

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  • The Tony Hawk video game series (Pro Skater 1, 2, 3, 4 and Tony Hawk's Underground) have become some of the best-selling games ever.

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  • By now, nearly everyone is aware of the growing problem with these underground "sporting events".

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  • It works like an underground trash can with a top that you step on with your foot to drop the waste in.

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  • The root-stocks are usually as thick as the finger; they run freely underground and increase rapidly.

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  • It spreads slowly by underground stems, and succeeds in crevices of the rock garden or border.

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  • This trunk never rises, but creeps along the ground, its underground rhizomes freely giving off young plants in rich open soils.

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  • A few plants soon spread into a thick group, as it runs freely underground, and it is so easily increased by its suckers that it offers every facility for free planting.

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  • In a moist spot, such as a bog, it spreads by underground shoots and makes a large mass.

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  • Alkekengi, spreading strongly by underground stems.

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  • Grape vine roots can spread out in a circle as large as six feet in diameter, so make sure you plant vines well away from underground wires, pipes, and other things that roots can interfere with.

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  • Since these dandelion roots can run ten or more inches underground, be prepared to dig.

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