Sentences with phrase «water out of the gutter»

She was worried about «Scruffy», but I assured her that the pigeon was out of harm's way and could drink water out of the gutter.

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The home is built of wattle and daub in the old Caymanian style, with the cook room out back, a wide porch trimmed with «gingerbread» in front, a sand yard all around, and a tin roof surrounded by gutters piped into a cistern to supply water to the house.

if we deregulate industry (if you deregulate one then you will have to deregulate them all) then the waste collection business up the road will dispose of their sludge down the gutters into the storm water drains, the coffee business in the next row will not replace their odour filters and the whole area will reak of burnt coffee all day, the tyre business around the corner will dump their tyres in the nearby bushland, some of the hardup businesses in the area will hookup to the power lines with with uncontrolled connections and we will start to get brown outs at various times in the day, The lead and tin foundry a block away won't bother controlling the lead oxide spewing out of their chimney stack, nearby housing developments will all use open fires in winter to save on energy costs and start hacking trees out of the world heritage national park here.

Prevent rain pouring out of overflowing gutters from displacing soil and allowing water to pool.