Mains, sluiced down with a nice (free) decanter of Côtes du Rhone, were terrific.
Rain was sluicing down the gray slate roof into the gutter.
WITH rain still sluicing down and rivers rising in some areas, Central America's flood disaster was not over this week.
The Vatican dismisses the vast social change as a scatter of pesty little isolated fires, to be sluiced down with ancient formulas.
So they need to be sluiced down daily in the run-up to cooking them (I end up using a plastic scouring pad on the shells).
It was easy to forget as the rain sluiced down over an ordinary game in a stadium almost two thirds empty that Wigan are the holders of the FA Cup.
You can watch your collaborator think, and watch her thoughts mingle with yours, and watch her watching you as your pooled sentience goes sluicing down an endless hall of mirrors.
What, anyway, is their likely impact in a country where, as testified by the occasional brawl, parliament itself is daily sluiced down with buckets of subsidised gin, and, indeed, where the state's alcohol policy is run by the alcohol industry?
I walked along Nehru Road to the Chowrasta, Darjeeling's main square, where a few Sherpa men and women were sluicing down and brushing small ponies — chestnut, piebald, and gray — which they would later try to rent to sahibs and their children.
In a momentary lapse into real sleep, I had the briefest of dreams: I was sitting with my back against a tree, but it was nighttime, and it was raining so hard that not even the branches could protect me; water sluiced down on me each time the wind shifted, and I tried to huddle into myself, chilled like the blade of a knife that could cut me to the bone.
