As the others covered their noses, I was startled by how that moist, moldy cesspool odor is such a part of my past, the smell of a West Virginian mountain shack, with straight pipe plumbing.
Put your level against the face of the bricks to make sure that they are straight and plumb.
From deep within my memory, bells were ringing about tiny jungle parasites that find no greater pleasure than swimming straight up your plumbing and co-habiting your vital organs.
Its walls are not plumb, straight or true, and several footwide gaps can be seen under the eaves.
Another arresting image is the hull of a ship that tapers down one side of the paper in an abstract rhombus, to be balanced on the other by a long anchor chain that hangs straight as a plumb line.
It was not that their penises did not exist, it was just that she could not picture them — the one that belonged to the boy with a stick, for example, hanging down as he leaned out over the water, straight as a plumb line.
He won or lost plumb straight".
Jungle inhabitants are essentially leapfrogging straight to modernization with plumbing, sewer systems, air conditioning and yes, Internet access.
It plumbs the straight, white mind's unconscious depths of polymorphous desire.
Greywater recycling systems collect the water you've used in your sinks, dishwashers, showers and baths, and then clean it up and plumb it straight back into your toilet, washing machine and outside tap.
