Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.

Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times

[…] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

Millroy often described his kidneys—how he flushed them out. His lungs—the way he hyperventilated them. His heart—how he got it pumping, sluicing its gates and chambers.

Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: "Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and sluiced Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky."

to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.

He also organized a bucket brigade for sluicing down the decks.

In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.

Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.

these are often my thoughts as my partner or my vis-a-vis spoons a berry into her mouth and I imagine it—see and hear it being chewed, the red juice running from its bursting pulp over her tongue, mingling with her saliva, slipping through the crevices between her teeth before sluicing down her throat and into her bloodstream.

The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.

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