"A tin water pail rang in a skipping roll to the horse path".
AECOM has secured a design and construction-services contract from the Water Supplies Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to upgrade the Sha Tin water treatment facility.
The men got only as far as the third floor, where they found a mysterious array of mementoes of the hotel that once flourished there — "three seltzer bottles with corroded spouts, a tin water cooler painted to resemble brown marble, a cracked glass bell" — before taking fright and retreating downstairs.
Courgettes, leeks and onions sprawl in raised beds, pretty tin watering cans dangle from the ceiling; bright yellow squashes grow in the far corner, there's a huge banana tree in the centre.
The garden is a swatch of vibrant colour: green tufts growing lettuce, aubergine, watermelon and other produce form tidy rows, and women in bright skirts walk through, bringing tin watering cans from the well to hydrate this lush little corner in a vast, parched landscape.
And his collections are odder: loops of wire, skeleton keys, seafood tins, water bottle labels, envelope liners, strips of masking tape, canceled credit cards, boulders and that's just for starters.
Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool in the tin of water.
The FTO thin films were achieved through a combinatorial chemistry approach using tin tetrachloride, water and oxygen as precursors and Freon (F-152, C2H4F2) as dopant.
A year earlier, in the programme that made him famous, Wonders of the Solar System, he sat in the Mojave desert and knocked up a shonky but memorable experiment with a thermometer, a tin of water and an umbrella.
Dubuque, under the command of Captain Alexander Balian, who stopped to inspect the boat and to give its occupants tinned meat, water, and a map.
Some is tinned in water, and some has sugar and salt added - the former, of course, retains a more natural flavour.
