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    plumb


    plumbed


    plumbing


    1. Once he was satisfied of their plumb he wedged their positions with rocks jammed and tamped down into the narrow spaces between the poles and the hole walls


    2. There seemed to be an unseen undercurrent of mystery and a potential for violence that I was ready to plumb, maybe with the help of Jocko


    3. A plumb line for this wicked generation! For this Word is a waving banner, an ensign to all nations!


    4. It can plumb the human soul only to a certain depth


    5. The two next went out to climb the roof and plumb the depths of the chimney from above


    6. "I'm plumb surprised—never would have figured it in a million years


    7. "Sorry, but I'm plumb out of ideas


    8. He was not looking at the girl; his fierce eyes seemed to plumb the mysterious purple hazes of the distance


    9. “With all that was going on involving your father, I plumb forgot to tell you about your grandfather


    10. In shallow waters they used a plumb line to measure depth and current

    11. They were in Richard Vowell's house and Betty was serving fresh venison with plumb jelly


    12. A plumb line is defined, as a line from which if a


    13. This vertical can be drawn by holding a plumb line at arm's length (closing one eye, of course) and bringing it to a position where it will cover the point A on your subject


    14. The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and


    15. Molly looks out of plumb


    16. So there I had to stick plumb until daylight this morning; and I never see a nigger that was a better nuss or faithfuller, and yet he was risking his freedom to do it, and was all tired out, too, and I see plain enough he'd been worked main hard lately


    17. But if you climb up into the tower, and drop a plumb line from the top of one of the columns of the crossing, just below the springing of the arch, you will see that by the time the line touches the floor it will be adrift of the column to the south by several inches


    18. Now, plumb set on that town, most as bad as Charlestonians are about Charleston, and it’ll Miss Scarlett, don’t say they are silly


    19. But the spin of the intricately hatched dial, the blur of numbers and the almost idiographic line segments, the yaw from side to side through the positive and negative values, made her feel less that she was on solid ground than that she was at sea, up on a tiny crow’s nest, so severely many degrees out of plumb that if she fell there would be nothing to catch her but blue


    20. ” His arm, held a hundred-odd degrees from plumb, had started to burn

    21. Grose who first brought up the plumb with an almost elated "You see!"


    22. The market continued to plumb new lows going into mid-October, and there was still no concrete evidence that the market decline was ending, until it finally undercut the September lows and began to rally, posting a massive follow-through day on the ninth day off the bottom (Figure 9


    23. This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and so on


    24. If asked about her cooking, Grandma would look down at her hands which some glorious instinct sent on journeys to be gloved in flour, ,r to plumb disencumbered turkeys, wrist-deep in search of their animal souls


    25. She called out his name, over and over again, and she felt like staring plumb straight at him, but she stopped herself


    26. “I didn’t see it,” returned the other, “but Billy said it was plumb bu’st, and the things fallin’ out


    1. Inside was a really large telescope in a case, many large, securely-locked map cases, a large finely-detailed globe of the world on a gimbaled stand, an unintelligible plastic machine, other purposeless tools, another table, more chairs, a comfortable reading chair with a plumbed lantern, a whole library of bookcases and a big clipstand holding what must be the ships manifest


    2. They were not the wooden barrels with bung taps that he knew from the parts of Alan's universe he had seen lately, they were plumbed fittings behind a polished bar with fine woodwork around it and glowing symbols on the tap handles, more like the place where he used to play the Herndon Cherub for her


    3. A bucket of water sat next to the contraption to pitch hit for the lack of a plumbed water supply, but other than that slight modification, the house was now as well furnished as any in the whole state of California


    4. Then there were several essay questions, none of which truly plumbed to the depths of his already practiced compositions


    5. “We have plumbed to the depths of their newly forming souls, and can, without reservation, state that their eyes are clear, their minds are open, their bodies and spirits are purged and prepared for the reformations ahead of them on the journey


    6. As he rushed inside, he clumsily grasped the steel sink plumbed into the wall


    7. The stack from our still was plumbed out the regular chimney


    8. The Dangler plumbed the depth of the river with his fishing pole and found it no more than a fin to the bottom


    9. It was all plumbed together and working, but the engineer had not connected it to the drain


    10. Useful though - it used to be a water feature, so it’s already plumbed in

    11. It was a war of souls, of frightful brains steeped in lore forbidden to men for a million years, of mentalities which had plumbed the abysses and explored the dark stars where spawn the shadows


    12. I have plumbed deep in evil, but there is a limit to which I, or any man of my race and age, can go


    13. It was apparent that Samson Duff‘s sexuality had not yet plumbed its depths as thoughts of Elise Jones and her scent welled into his consciousness, stimulated by the swinish saturnalia just witnessed


    14. He plumbed the depths carefully with a line he had brought for the purpose and in this way found a mountain on the sea floor some way beyond the mesa, the pinnacle of said mountain being only one-hundred metres or so below the mist


    15. “We have plumbed the fissure and as far as


    16. Knowing he was getting later by the second, he went to the sink which was plumbed into the wall of the shed and quickly washed his hands


    17. hide equipment and provides more water volume since it is plumbed into the main system


    18. A hang on the back of the sump or plumbed inline refugium is also being planned


    19. We wil have the whole thing wired, plumbed and ready to open in a


    20. building had been plumbed and wired so it took less than a week to install the

    21. Human insanity has never been plumbed, penetrated or explored by living humans


    22. But they really plumbed the depths of moral depravity when Professor Frans Balder picked up their tracks and it was decided to eliminate him


    23. not look straight up at him, but her eyes soon lifted, and his plumbed the deepness of the ever-varying pupils, with their radiating fibrils of blue, and black, and gray, and violet, while she regarded him as Eve at her second waking might have regarded Adam


    24. " He cannot rise to the height it was intended he should reach till he has plumbed the depths, till he has devoured the bread of the bitterest affliction, till he has known the ache of hopes deferred, of anxious expectation disappointed, of dreams that are not to be fulfilled this side of the river that waters the meads of Paradise


    1. Two thousand years of foot traffic had worn the floors to rolling hills, the glass in the windows had sagged and the marble plumbing fixtures were heavily eroded, though they were just replaced a few centuries ago


    2. Tahlmute here has a big plumbing fitting of some kind in a security container he needs delivered


    3. I’d quite enjoyed dealing with that – there is something very satisfying about plumbing


    4. The containment frame was still in place, all the plumbing leading to it


    5. All the families that had planked in on that side of the garage shared what used to be the public facilities on that floor, and it was shear monstrosities of re-cycled plumbing that kept it going


    6. There was an out-house instead of plumbing and a rope and bucket well next to the outdoor kitchen that was sheltered by the lean-to next to the back door


    7. The last two evenings they stopped in small villages with public rooms and plumbing


    8. “Nothing's for sure until the money is in the bank, but as a projection, and knowing no one else has indoor plumbing: it's three dollars a day up at the Inn, and their weekly rate is twenty dollars, but Mandy has the restaurant, tea room, and saloon right there as a convenience, but not included in the rate


    9. After lunch, he led them to the tower, placed the four buckets in front of them and said, “I have been waiting for a pipe connection to repair our plumbing but it is unfortunately on back order with the manufacturer, but we still need to have this water tank


    10. Harry followed behind them setting and plumbing the poles in their excavated holes

    11. “Do you have indoor plumbing, mum?”


    12. It was in a fairly dilapidated condition when we took it on and it took a couple of years of hard slog to get it all straight, but at least you can be confident that all the plumbing and electrics are sound


    13. All this knowledge went into keeping a tank of sewage-eating slugs and running the plumbing as horizontal as possible


    14. He saw all the cooks in that area, he knew most of them, then passed all the way down into the pottery and plumbing foundries of the Karthuum Valley and then all the way across to the huge Jaignvin photochemical labs beyond the south Karthuum print shops


    15. He got deep behind West Harbor, thru the collar by Rankor Hill and almost to the other plumbing district below the Hyadrain valley


    16. foundation, putting in the plumbing up to its connection with the fittings in the modular home, and bringing in the electric power


    17. It was not that she had never taken a cold bath—the single room she had shared with her father as a girl had not had plumbing much less hot water


    18. "But neither of us knows the first thing about plumbing," I argued


    19. She knew, for example, that the coils of copper plumbing had never been installed, but sold, as had the new furnace, the profits split with a city building inspector


    20. He had the guys bring down books on plumbing, electricity, architecture, concrete, what have ‘ya, and then pitch in with the work too, but for the most part he completely did it himself with just the help of a crew of spic laborers, and that whole experience was flat-ass cool

    21. to discover the indoor plumbing and steaming hot water


    22. Barretson assured them that lumber and roofing materials would be found, as well as the plumbing and electrical wiring requirements that Zinsmann outlined


    23. Once when calling on Zinsmann concerning some plumbing repair work that was needed at the kaserne, he found that the German’s apartment at 8 Trebensallee had been refurbished and filled with new furniture


    24. Somehow I just knew the plumbing would leak, or something


    25. Heating and plumbing were a constant challenge with Maintenance, who joked


    26. venture, he quit plumbing and stayed active


    27. Plumbing in the community until he retired


    28. believe plumbing is a nec-


    29. conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, electrical


    30. Not to mention the compliment implied to the plumbing class, which could thereafter make some claim to artistry

    31. If you have a location-specific business, such as a plumbing, restaurant, or store, you’d typically want to find local users in your area


    32. He undoubtedly removed all of the just installed anti-smog plumbing


    33. The bottle still sat back under the old plumbing, and it


    34. I experienced all kinds of plumbing problems inside the house and with the rooftop swamp box, so it was not such a bargain


    35. Now that your old plumbing fixtures have been


    36. the new plumbing fixtures will be such as the


    37. provided for this plumbing


    38. new plumbing water lines in hot


    39. either an off the plumbing shop shelf barrel


    40. the wall cavity as there are plumbing pipes

    41. everyone a home with modern plumbing


    42. We have the simple plumbing


    43. The lighting, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and kitchen are all of the latest development


    44. carpeting, or plumbing maintenance would take a distant second in priority to making the house payment


    45. They located him at the far end of the shop, kibitzing on a plumbing repair


    46. Plumbing needed to be re-routed for the new gadget, a large numerically-controlled mill


    47. It leaks when it rains, the plumbing is always screwed up as well as the electricity


    48. Well, a few days ago I watched an incarcerated copper thief rip about 4 feet of copper plumbing and fittings out from under the sink in the day room


    49. I had become one with the plumbing


    50. stories about how the plumbing can go bad, or roofs spring leaks,












































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    Synonyms for "plumb"

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    "plumb" definitions

    the metal bob of a plumb line


    measure the depth of something


    weight with lead


    examine thoroughly and in great depth


    adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical


    exactly vertical


    completely; used as intensifiers


    conforming to the direction of a plumb line


    exactly