How To Use Runnel In A Sentence
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From the sketches in Seilacher's paper, we learned that the black dots visible in our photographs might be holes that led straight down a fraction of an inch to a horizontal network of tubes or runnels just beneath the sediment surface.
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Planted beneath it, and in the matching raised bed across the runnel, is a collection of bold and textural plants such as abutilon, acanthus, agapanthus, and Tasmanian tree fern.
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The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’
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Either a pegged tenon or a trunnel a peg at least one and one-half inches in diameter should position the rafter securely.
BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE
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We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.
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Into each of these we graved a piece of plank, and in one of them we drove a trunnel where none had been before.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Now the river is no more than a runnel, and his paintings articulate the artist's inner musings and memories.
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Not to be missed on a trip to this area is the infamous Runnel Stone, reputed to have wrecked more than 27 ships.
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In general, he has a predilection for the rills and runnels of the past, the tributaries of history rather than what you might consider to be its mainstreams.
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It was narrow and empty, and their boots slapped through a runnel of drainage that ran down its middle.
Behemoth
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We snickered at the warm runnels of amber oil running down our forearms and dripping off our elbows as we savored the wonderful meat.
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A glass bottomed runnel, which collects water during the short and torrential rains, doubles as a skylight over a glass shower and over the guest room below.
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The rain ran in shallow runnels alongside the path.
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Water ran in runnels down his cheeks and dripped from his chin.
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His head snapped up, showing his tears trailing in runnels down his handsome face.
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The rain ran in shallow runnels alongside the path.
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Trickling water from a wall fountain flows through a stair-stepped runnel (water channel) into the patio below to provide soothing sound.
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‘Amen,’ Joe echoed and bowed his head and tears slowly slid down his cheeks forming runnels through the dust that had coated his skin as a result of his labours.
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But 'Liza was not inclined to leave the entertainment of gentlemen to "gals," whom she declared to be, for the most part, "wu'fless trunnel-baid trash.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)
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What routes and courses might emerge from building little channels and runnels?
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Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.
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I slept in a little trunnel bed under my mother's mistress 'bed.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
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The steep slope locally has parallel V-shaped runnels normal to the shelf edge.
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The rivulets and runnels of Celtic Park are lined with the pictures, mementoes and iconography of former glory.
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She shook him, and rainwater sluiced off his suit in runnels to the ground.
Rogue Oracle
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I stopped several times to glass the Sheila Face with my monocular, trying to commit every outcrop and ice runnel to memory.
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Planted beneath it, and in the matching raised bed across the runnel, is a collection of bold and textural plants such as abutilon, acanthus, agapanthus, and Tasmanian tree fern.
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As we progressed we found ourselves climbing down steeper and higher dry waterfalls, most of which provided a fissure, a runnel, a pleat of rock or an overhanging crag that allowed a relatively easy descent.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
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In keeping with a project goal to make greening strategies visible to the public, the rainwater not retained by the vegetated roof is directed via surface runnels to water storage.
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Mr Spire seemed of the same mind and was washing his hands in a runnel of dew among a garble of tree roots.
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In Pune, the oft-maligned Osho Community converted a polluted runnel into a green haven using nature's own sustainable, purifying, systems.
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The sun's blaring in my eyes, sweat's trickling down my back in runnels, and he comes walking up the hill, a heavy jacket zipped up to the neck on this hot August day.
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But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
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The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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Luther walked down the dusty streets of Cantrip, runnels of sweat trickling down his back.
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I moved to his side, my finger tracing one runnel of sweat down his chest.
My Fair Succubi
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I dream of rain, falling on everything, the dripping, peeling runnels of all gardens, from the grey sky through glass and hothouse, in the sowed order of this elder's place.
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I could feel the tears now, a regular runnel of them on both cheeks.
DOWNTOWN
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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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An adventuring pair of swordsman are betting on which runnel of blood will get where first, and have an argument.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Elak - Elak Of Atlantis
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Docked closer inshore on the pier was a two-masted, black-hulled schooner with a single side-wheel and a thin runnel.
The Order War
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If dropping a shot, it is best to steer just west of Runnel Stone and drop it onto the wreck at 20-25m, letting the line drag back across the rock.
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His dumpy women bathers at the Hermitage and the Leiden Museum sit under such trees, with Rembrandtian simplicity dabbling their feet in mere runnels of water.
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The timbers are often cut and dressed by hand, jointed and interlocked in the traditional way, and fastened throughout with wood pegs called trunnels, or ‘tree nails.’
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To accentuate the runnel, some flagstones along it were positioned bottom side up.
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Woolf was one of those authors whose "paper rivers" formed the origin of Laing's watery obsessions, and there's an intriguing correspondence between "sources": rooting in "a copse of hazel and stunted oak" to find the indefinite "clammy runnel" of the Ouse, and shuffling among original manuscripts in a bone-dry archive.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review
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Surprisingly to me, the old bridge didn't have trunnels, it was all bolted.
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The "trunnel" at Circle and Constitution is no different.
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Pushing myself, continually out of breath, I scurried up and to the left across small snowfields linked by narrow runnels of verglas and short rock bands.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
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I heard the runnel with delight; I looked round me for some-thing beautiful and unexpected; but the still black pine-trees, the hollow glade, the munching ass, remained unchanged in figure.
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We have used tree nails (trunnels) for frame fixing, stone ballast, and hand made rope stropped blocks.