galvanised-steel spoutings and downpipes — if used […] .

Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. - Sir John Herschel.

He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.

As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.