See hydr.

A cable was dispatched to our military adviser in London, then General Harding- Stewart, to place at once on order the armament for the fort, which it had been decided should consist of two 9. 2 and two 6- inch breech- loading guns, mounted on hydro- pneumatic gun- carriages, the latest up- to- date ordnance approved of by the home government for coastal defence purposes throughout the Empire. "The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon", José Maria Gordon.

As, therefore, the inaccessibility of the phenomenon is added to the manifold nature and complication of the disturbances, it has always appeared to me that meteorology must first seek its foundation and progress in the torrid zone, where the variations of the atmospheric pressure, the course of hydro- meteors, and the phenomena of electric explosion, are all of periodic occurrence. "COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1", Alexander von Humboldt.

What she needs is the bustle of life in a good hotel, a good hydro, for instance. "The Old Wives' Tale", Arnold Bennett.

The actual management of the lumbering, the conduct of the farms and ranches, the running of the hydro- electric systems of light and transportation, were placed in the hands of active young men. "The Killer", Stewart Edward White.