Waste weirs resemble ordinary solid weirs in providing for the surplus discharge from a reservoir of an impounded river or mountain stream over their crest; but in reality they form part of a masonry reservoir dam for storing up water for water-supply or irrigation, kept purposely lower than the rest of the dam to allow the excess of water to escape down the valley (see Water-Supply). [Please select]
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"He did, but you fellows impounded them." [Please select]
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Thought and feeling, that break out there, cannot be impounded by any fence of personality. [Please select]
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"It has been impounded with other so-called 'enemy property' by your friends the British." [Please select]
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Meanwhile the Council sat without any of Drake's supporters and ordered all the treasure to be impounded in the Tower. [Please select]
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Water was also impounded in a series of small ponds maintained for the benefit of fish and waterfowl. [Please select]
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Here the brown mink prowls with her lithe cubs, all unworthy yet of the trapper's skill, but tending toward it with growth accelerated by full feasts of pool-impounded minnows. [Please select]
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At this locality an artesian well provided an abundant year round water supply, which was impounded into an artificial lake half a mile long and a little less than a quarter mile wide. [Please select]
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