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"Chute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hillside through the forest, until suddenly that road widened out and came abruptly to an end. A canyon, woody below, red, rocky, and naked overhead, was here walled across by a dump of rolling stones, dangerously steep, and from twenty to thirty feet in height. A rusty iron chute on wooden legs came flying, like a monstrous gargoyle, across the parapet. It was down this that they poured the precious ore; and below here the carts stood to wait their lading, and carry it ...
— The Silverado Squatters • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said, 'Sure!' Then he said something in German to the men. He talked and talked, but of course we couldn't tell what he said. Presently four of them took Louie and laid him in the torpedo chute, and there he was; and nobody paid any more attention to him than if he wasn't there at all. Gee, ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... difficult. Rapids were numerous and the descent in most of them very great. The boats had to be handled with extra caution. The method of travelling was for Powell to go ahead in the Emma Dean to examine the nature of each rapid before the other boats should come down to it. If he saw a clear chute he ran through and signalled "come on," but if he thought it too risky he signalled "land," and the place was examined as well as he was able from the shore. If this investigation showed a great many dangerous rocks, or any other dangerous element, ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh |
Words linked to "Chute" : sky dive, jump, parasail, fall, ripcord, skydive, drogue, plunge, static line, descend, harness, trough, come down, glide, canopy, go down, shroud, drogue parachute, plunk, coal chute, dive, runway, skid, gutter, drogue chute, sloping trough, rescue equipment |
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