"Hydraulics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the wall for the housekeeping wren; a motherly hen, under a coop on the grass-plot, clucking to keep around her a brood of vagrant chickens; a cool, stone well, with the moss-covered bucket suspended to the long balancing-pole, according to the antediluvian idea of hydraulics; and its spinning-wheel humming within doors, the patriarchal music ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving
... frequently finds himself an amateur in comparison. With all man's inventions he has not been able to equal some of the remarkable results produced by some animals. The beaver, for example, shows a more profound knowledge of hydraulics than man himself. The power possessed by these craftsmen, not only in felling trees, but in duly selecting the best places for making homes and in appropriating substances suitable for their ...
— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon
... together with Wilson and a half dozen engineers from research and hydraulics and two laser engineers, ...
— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael
... ghostly arms of protest. Slowly, without tumult, the jam formed. In the van the logs crossed silently; in the rear they pressed in, were sucked under in the swift water, and came to rest at the bottom of the river. The current of the river began to protest, pressing its hydraulics through the narrowing crevices. The ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White |
