He too had grown out of this bottomless "sump and seedbed", "the vowel of earth/dreaming its root/in flowers and snow".
It also did a lot to help the Baltic states.Now Ukraine has become, in Polish eyes, a sump of corruption.
During rainy seasons around five months of each year the river floods the plants' sump wells, with the same effect.At least there is hope, in the shape of the activist priest, Mr Mishra.
The crankcase is formed by the portion of the cylinder block below the cylinder bores and the stamped or cast metal oil pan that forms the lower enclosure of the engine and also serves as a lubricating oil reservoir, or sump.
It is a both sump of poverty and a nuclear power, an intelligent nation – its people desire education with the same craving as the Palestinians – with a history that began and ended at the moment of partition, its datelines framed by military coups and imperial hand-outs and, now, by drone attacks and suicide bombers.
Oil is taken from the sump by a pump, usually of the gear type, and is passed through a filter and delivered under pressure to a system of passages or channels drilled through the engine.
The peat is washed down by a high-pressure water jet, and the pulp runs to a sump.
In the extreme upper position, as shown, active flow is from the pump port P to the working, or load, port B; discarded fluid from the load passes from port A to the tank or sump port T. In the extreme lower position, the functions of ports A and B are reversed.
The lubrication system is fed by the oil sump that forms the lower enclosure of the engine.
Even his writing room is not the unkempt, minimalist sump his movies might lead you to expect, but is dominated by a four-poster bed, under whose blue calico canopy he likes to sprawl and write, overseen on the bedside table by framed photographs of Cole Porter, Sidney Bechet, and Fyodor Dostoyevski — all, like him, technicians of distraction and delight.
It was September, and he was on my television screen, wading chest deep in a New Orleans sump, trying to reach a survivor of Hurricane Katrina.
