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Examples
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That one glance was all Nicholas had time for before his log was plunged into the water-chute, gathering speed until it was tearing downwards at a steeply canted angle.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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She jumped or dived from the topmost diving platform, and she came down the water-chute in every possible position, even standing, which was a quite impossible feat for any other girl.
Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967
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The men then shoveled the sand in the running stream and away it went, sluicing along the water-chute, its particles rattling down the wooden stairway noisily.
The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels
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She had thought of dances for no more than a minute, though it had long been one of her dreams to enter a ballroom by a marble staircase (which she imagined of a size and steepness really more suited to a water-chute), carrying a black ostrich-feather fan such as she had seen Sarah Bernhardt pythoning about with in "La Dame aux Camélias."
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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For the supply of logs an enormous flume led down from the slopes of the forested range on the south, a trough-like water-chute out of which, though the working-day was ended, the great logs were still tumbling in an intermittent stream.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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"You just squat on this," she explained, "and you go skimming down the stairs like a water-chute.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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