| 单词 | cistern |
| 例句 | In the end, I decided that the cistern would make a good hiding place, at least for a while. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The cistern was overflowing with all the rain we’d had, so I spent two pitchers of it on my salty, sandy, weary body. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Some people watched, horrified and weeping, from their windows, but a surprising number kept their heads and were forming a bucket line from the town’s cistern atop the city hall to a nearby burning building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the cistern the students stood with only their heads above the water, and their two hands, which they clasped as they imploringly cried and screamed, calling for their parents. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Under three huge brick arches they went, then down a steep stone ramp into the depths, through the dungeons and torture chambers and past a pair of deep stone cisterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was no need to use the basin downstairs, for she could just as easily wash, as she always had, from the cistern tap. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If the windmill broke it would mean many days without water because the cistern was already dry of summer water, and melting snow would be a hard job. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This mosquito is almost entirely dependent on humans for its breeding areas—the still water found in water barrels, cisterns, canals, ponds, sewers, gutters, and outhouses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Then she would throw water from the cistern over herself with a gourd. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Just when he reached the cistern, a wild commotion of barking burst from under the floor of the school. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I made my way over to the flat roof of the town hall and climbed the ladder to the cistern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Why do I recall, instead of the odor of seed bursting in springtime, only the yellow contents of the cistern spread over the lawn's dead grass? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Down there in the darkness was a cistern filled with water so sweet that he could smell it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The tub was filled with clean water that had been gathered in a cistern or pumped from distant pipes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z One morning in April, when the heat had returned for drying lentil wafers on the roof, we noticed that someone had vomited by the cistern tap. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I found him behind the house, at the cistern, filling a pitcher for the house. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I took the bundle out to the cistern, climbed up the ladder fixed to one side, tipped back the lid, and slipped the treasure into the water. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I hooked my foot around the ladder rung and leaned deep into the cistern, quenching the shingle in the water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So to mark his manhood, Tyrion was given charge of all the drains and cisterns within easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the wild chase around the building the biggest dog struck the tin drainpipe, and it clattered down the wall and bounced on the cement top of the cistern. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A rusty tin pipe ran from the corner of the roof down to the cistern where the children were playing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In her most embittered moments we wrapped her in shawls, washed her face from the cistern tap, and brought her glasses of yogurt and rosewater. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Then she ran the tap at the base of the cistern. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Still clutching the burning shingle, I made my way up the ladder to the top of the cistern, whispering a breathless thanks to whoever had left it open to the sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After I urinated, I wanted to flush but the cistern was empty; the lever went limply up and down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I pulled out my pocketknife with my other hand and drove it through the shingle into the wooden wall of the cistern, pinning my makeshift piece of sygaldry under the water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I did every dirty job there was: I cleaned outhouses and strained bugs out of cisterns. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Dustfinger sat up and leaned against the side of the cistern. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For at long intervals on that highway cisterns had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Every morning Nguyen went to the city well to fill heavy buckets of water and bring them home to keep their cistern filled. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Maybe they used some of the underground cisterns that had been laid down long ago but had been ignored, or maybe they used saltwater from the bay. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A large plot stretched behind it with a cistern, a privy, a poor excuse for a garden, and at the far end, a carriage house and small stable. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons, and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I spent a moment at Miss Maggie’s cistern, dusting myself off and sluicing rainwater over my head, before I met her at her door. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It also has solar panels on the roof, geothermal wells under the football field and giant cisterns for storm water reclamation. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The soft curves of the hills, for example, are shaped to direct rainwater into an underground drainage system, where it is stored in giant cisterns and used to irrigate the site. Architecture Review | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 2010-04-01T22:47:00Z Dishwashing water comes from a cistern via a spigot to the sink. In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z It installed a 3,500-gallon rooftop cistern to collect rainwater used for plant irrigation. Far from a cubicle farm, Etsy’s stylish headquarters is full of design ideas worth bringing home 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Tuesday's hearing comes 15 months after the naked body of Monica Beresford-Redman was found in a sewer cistern at the resort where she and her family were staying. TV producer's extradition hearing to begin in LA 2011-07-12T09:31:04Z Authorities claim he killed his wife during a family vacation at a swank Cancun resort in April 2010 and placed her body in a sewage cistern. Daughter won't testify at hearing for TV producer 2011-07-12T17:52:07Z A cistern captures up to 25,000 gallons of rainwater, which, as gardeners know, is better for plants than the treated stuff out of the tap. A $1 million donor’s request to Brookside Gardens: Build a greenhouse before I die 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Also, the main source of irrigation for the turf between the Washington Monument and the Capitol is being switched from drinking water to rainwater captured in enormous new underground cisterns. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Above the churning cistern, I heard the names Martin Creed and Mike Nelson, so try to eavesdrop some more. Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario ? review 2011-08-25T10:53:51Z He keeps razor blades taped under the cistern and his arms become striped with scars. Friend in need 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The second disc gives another Oliveros accordion master class, this time solo in a Cologne cistern, with a resonant finale in her take on “The Gentle.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Several scenes suggest spaces in the mind, like Jochanaan’s cistern, here a creepily arid, crumbling attic where he sits at a table, scribbling. Review: Santa Fe Opera Offers ‘The Daughter of the Regiment,’ ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Salome’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The restored vegetable garden here is watered by overhead sprinklers supplied by a 30,000-gallon cistern fed by a spring a half mile down the mountain. In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z Her body was found naked in a sewer cistern at a Cancun-area resort where the family was vacationing. ‘Survivor’ producer imprisoned for wife’s death is released 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Today, the ghost of its town square is a large field surrounded by rock foundations of storehouses, cisterns and homes, eventually abandoned after the Second Seminole War in 1842. 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Suarez walked us through the site, pointing out the hidden mouths of cisterns and offering I.N.A.H.’s best guesses as to what each structure might have been. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The compartments drain back into a cistern to control and conserve the water. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z About yet another, we read, “There was a faint smell from her like that of an uncovered cistern.” Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z But the attorneys say nothing in the hotel room or at the cistern supports a case that Bruce Beresford-Redman killed his wife. Producer wants child witness to fight extradition 2011-06-22T02:01:05Z An inspection of the cistern on the hotel’s roof turned up the naked body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam, a Chinese-Canadian tourist who had been decomposing for roughly 19 days. Is The Cecil the most haunted hotel in Los Angeles? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z We lock ourselves in a stall and chop lines of speed on top of the cistern. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z One thing you’d change about your home The toilet cistern leaks. The future's orange: an architect's steel-clad home 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The eerie Portuguese cistern hidden under the town’s main thoroughfare still held rainwater, defying the centuries. My grandfather wrote a Moroccan travelogue in 1920. Almost a century later, I set out to re-create his trip. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Someone seems to have left the portal open, too, because this place has several spirits, including a Confederate soldier and a little boy who reportedly drowned in the cistern in the basement. Like a good scare? Here are five haunted hotels with stories fit for true-crime files. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Not far from the trail, a pair of springs flows into an ancient storage cistern carved out of limestone, then funnels through irrigation channels to the agricultural terraces. Next Stop: Jerusalem Outings Go Beyond the Biblical 2011-06-10T18:55:00Z I found the genuine articles in the municipal museum, a modern building constructed around a deep medieval cistern. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z But after checking under beds, sofas, cabinets and in toilet cisterns, the officers found nothing. Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A rooftop terrace, a bougainvillea-draped garden and a cozy subterranean wine cave fashioned from an ancient cistern add to the charm of this stylish property. Five Places to Go in Jerusalem 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “I come from New Mexico, where many home lots have cisterns to catch rainwater. The lots on Catalina are too small for that, but small above-ground rain barrels could work, if it rains.” Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z An 18th-century silver cistern and a silver fountain in the show were both made for a duke who, Mr. Monkhouse said, “had a gambling habit and also went through several wives.” Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The house’s gutters tie in to a 1,500-gallon cistern, and the rainwater is used to irrigate the garden. An architect couple designs a dream house 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z From the circular courtyard recessed into the summit, a narrow staircase descends into a maze of tunnels and cisterns. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In another shot, “At the Old Well of Acoma,” a pair of women gather water from a cistern, their faces half-hidden, their dark forms vanishing into the stone behind them. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Nearby is the Domus Municipalis, from about the same era; it once served as both the town cistern and a legislative chamber. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Rural Portugal, Ancient Villages, Homemade Delights and the Science of Mooching 2012-01-10T20:23:21Z There was the old lady who I sat next to after taking one of the popular tours of the Greek cisterns and Roman aqueducts turned World War II bomb shelters. Frugal Traveler: Naples: Must-Sees and See-What-Happens 2011-06-07T18:32:57Z Rainwater harvested off the roof and stored in cisterns is used to replenish the ponds and to water new plants until they adjust to the tough-love, no-water regime. Hillside garden is tamed with native plants and decks 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z There was a balky cistern system that took three plumbers and six months to fix. Pinterest-fueled fantasies help turn a small cabin into a great escape 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Describing Matisse’s fondness for one dish, for example, he lets drop that “the repeated washing of the codfish was best achieved, some housewives found, by a day’s soak in the cistern of a flush toilet.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The intravenous chemotherapy that we would give Carla, no matter how potent, simply couldn't break into the cisterns and ventricles that bathed her brain. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z On the side of the road sat a recently rediscovered Roman cistern. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z As the villagers of Wadi Seeq fled settler violence, they left behind cisterns, livestock, solar panels and two vehicles. While the world is watching Gaza, violence fuels growing tensions in the occupied West Bank 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The agency promised any future demolitions of water cisterns “would be examined based on their merits.” Israel’s finance minister now governs the West Bank. Critics see steps toward permanent control 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z She used rainwater from her cistern for cooking and cleaning, unaware that it was likely contaminated as a result of the detonation. Top prosecutors from 14 states back compensation for those sickened by US nuclear weapons testing 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z He said the chain of events started early Wednesday in the middle of the night with one of the men apparently getting into the cistern to rescue the dog, which he described as a bloodhound. Texas sheriff says 3 hog hunters from Florida died in an underground tank after their dog fell in 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z They drew water from cisterns and holding ponds. ‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z A 2,500-gallon cistern could supply water for hoses in case a fire gets too close. As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Holy Grail: Disaster-Proof Homes 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Water arrives through a single line and is either pumped by hand or delivered by gravity from an external cistern. AP explains court ruling siding with Amish families who balked at Minnesota septic tank rules 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z They supply water to their homes from cisterns and have always prohibited septic systems. Court sides with Amish families in case that pits septic tank rules against religious beliefs 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Cook said the cistern had a “high level” of hydrogen sulfide. Texas sheriff says 3 hog hunters from Florida died in an underground tank after their dog fell in 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Water shortages and disruptions are already common in outlying provinces, where similarly antiquated infrastructure and drought force many to depend on cistern trucks or local rivers, streams and shallow wells. Havana suffers water shortages as cracks show in aging Cuban infrastructure 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z You can collect rainwater in a cistern, and also utilize and purify stormwater from the street. To maximize curb appeal, try simplifying your landscape | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z When tourism swells in summer, water pressure in the pipes drops; residents must rely on whatever they’ve managed to store in cisterns. Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico. 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Last year, 1,000 municipalities had serious problems, of which some 400 had to be provided with bottles or mobile cisterns. Drought prompts French ban on garden swimming pools 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He said stagnating water and the decay of other animals that previously died in the cistern could create levels that would be deadly. Texas sheriff says 3 hog hunters from Florida died in an underground tank after their dog fell in 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z In a neighborhood surrounded by almond orchards and citrus groves southeast of Fresno, large plastic cisterns occupy the yards of many homes, and residents have learned to ration water until the next tanker truck arrives. Despite storms, many Californians are still coping with dry wells and awaiting fixes 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z "I remember my head being bashed off the toilet cistern," she said. Domestic abuse: Victim says sentence is 'slap on the wrist' 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The facility now has geothermal heating and cooling, a large emergency storm shelter, and huge cisterns, so that if another fire breaks out, first responders won’t have to pump water from the camp’s pond. Paul Newman’s camp for sick kids rises from the ashes 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z And he evacuates his bowels into a cistern sunken in the middle of the living room. Review | ‘Inside’: A gilded cage, with only art for company 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The tank had “strong fumes, similar to those of a septic tank, coming from the cistern,” according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. Texas sheriff says 3 hog hunters from Florida died in an underground tank after their dog fell in 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Each block of Rohingya camps needs to be widened to accommodate fire service vehicles and the construction of water cisterns, and the camps should use less flammable materials in shelters, among other recommendations. Bangladesh panel says fire at Rohingya camps 'planned sabotage’ 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z They also said that tree roots, pipes, cisterns or other buried objects made it impossible in some cases to dig down 18 inches. Exide lead cleanup leaves fear, frustration and contamination in its wake 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z One concern among engineers involves maintenance of hundreds of cisterns, dry wells and other features, many of which have filters and permeable bottoms that can get clogged over time. In a Drought, California is Watching Water Wash Out to Sea 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Water will have to be gathered from natural rainwater cisterns in baobab trees while the trees' fruit will be among their energy sources. 'They will hunt and make fire' - the race reflecting a way of life 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s possibly just my projection, but beneath his bright society portraits and sun-kissed flowers and landscapes, I sometimes detect an underground cistern of melancholy. Review | At 95, Alex Katz is having another moment. His Guggenheim show is a knockout. 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Her body was found two weeks later submerged in a cistern. Mexico City investigating woman killed after taxi ride - attorney general 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The MWD demands that you have some technique for capturing and reusing rainwater, such as rain barrels, cisterns or rock gardens. Tear out your lawn, get more free cash. LADWP ups rebates for customers 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Another variable is that some of the water that will be captured in cisterns might have been captured elsewhere in the past, said Tony Zampiello, the water master of the main San Gabriel River Basin. In a Drought, California is Watching Water Wash Out to Sea 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The mini-exhibition of artefacts, which also features original parts and copies of an ancient irrigation system of wells and cisterns, is embedded in the structure of the terminus at Piraeus, which was inaugurated last month. Transported through history: Greek mosaic floor graces new subway station 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Most African mosquitoes lay their eggs in rainy-season puddles, but it thrives in artificial water sources such as cisterns and barrels of clean drinking water. Unusual malaria outbreak tied to invasive mosquito 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z They can hold millions of gallons of stormwater, some via large underground cisterns, one of which is the size of a city block. Will post-Sandy repairs be enough for the next big storm? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Syrian refugees in Lebanon rely on U.N. agencies and international NGOs to regularly truck in water to fill up cisterns outside their tents and clear out sewage containers. Cholera outbreak hits Syrian refugees sheltering in camps in Lebanon 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The state Department of Ecology also recommends preserving natural areas by utilizing permeable pavement, compost-amended soils, vegetated roofs and rainwater collection systems, like cisterns. Rain gardens offer benefits that go beyond beauty | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The team were unable to salvage all the cisterns, though similar ones have been dug up in the past. Transported through history: Greek mosaic floor graces new subway station 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z One tactic is to keep cisterns, wells, and other water storage locations covered so adults can’t lay their eggs in them. Unusual malaria outbreak tied to invasive mosquito 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z "Maybe it'll be weeks, maybe longer in the mountains," said Rivera-Aquino, who feels fortunate to have installed solar panels on his home and a large cistern to catch rainwater to supply his family. In beleaguered Puerto Rico, Fiona revives trauma of Hurricane Maria 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z An opening from the vaulted rooms also leads to a cistern where residents could access cool drinking water. Luxurious 1,200-year-old mansion found in southern Israel 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In those cases, the use of a cistern would help divert and filter stormwater. Rain gardens offer benefits that go beyond beauty | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The drama of this novel accumulates slowly, like the fresh water in their cistern. Review | In Emma Donoghue’s ‘Haven,’ the drama accumulates slowly 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Mosquitoes in the Aedes genus, which transmit dengue and other diseases, also breed in cisterns and wells, so control methods could help control those diseases as well. Unusual malaria outbreak tied to invasive mosquito 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Many middle- and upper-class families have water tanks and cisterns at their homes. Drought in Mexico leads to water rationing, theft 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Then, the cherries’ flesh was removed, and the remaining seeds — known widely as beans — went to a cistern to ferment. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z “We qualified for the RainWise program and installed a cistern and a rain garden when we moved into our house in 2018,” she says. Rain gardens offer benefits that go beyond beauty | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Then, the cherries’ flesh is removed, and the remaining seeds — known widely as beans — go to a cistern to ferment. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z This isn’t like rainwater, which you can collect in a cistern and use whenever you like. One way around California's water restrictions: Recycle water from your laundry 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spa-like cistern cloistered by a barren rock mountain in Death Valley National Park remains a biological mystery. The Devil’s Hole pupfish has paddled back from the brink in a hellish desert domain 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The next day, we took a cab to the historic Cobbs Hill Methodist Church, passing streets of tropical-hued houses, all with scrupulously maintained white roofs that feed rainwater for drinking into below-ground cisterns. Bermuda trail brings island’s Black heritage to the fore 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In an interview last week with Reforma newspaper, he said she was dead before her body was dumped in the cistern. Haunting disappearance sparks outrage in Mexico over gender violence 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z We had wandered away from the established path to look at a natural spring fitted with a galvanized pipe and a stone cistern. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The teenager’s body was found on Thursday night submerged in a cistern inside the grounds of a motel near where she was last seen alive. Family buries Mexican teenager who has reignited anger over gender violence 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The cistern is not much to look at, but al-Masri, the cantor at the Coptic church, says the sound it produces is unique. Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z In an interview with local media, Escobar also identified the body in the cistern as that of his daughter, and accused authorities of mishandling the investigation. Missing girl found dead, fueling outrage over gender violence in Mexico 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z “The alert was sounded by hotel workers, because of the fetid odors coming from the cistern,” Mejia said. Mexican police find body of missing woman in cistern 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The central hospital in Avdiivka has been newly renovated, but it had no power Wednesday and water for drinking is available only from a large blue cistern in the lobby. A Ukrainian town goes underground as Russia assaults the east 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The projects typically use swales, cisterns and dry wells, allowing water to penetrate the ground where it is naturally cleansed. Red tape ensnares L.A.'s plan to capture more storm water, despite $556 million raised 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The cistern is named after Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine, who was the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity. Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z They also built dams and cisterns, or holding tanks, to store water. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nava, who has a young daughter, has been adding solar panels and cisterns to her house to make her family more self-sufficient in the face of future disasters. Where will the next pandemic begin? The Amazon rainforest offers troubling clues 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z A cistern was built to hold 15,000 gallons of rainwater drained from the roof that would then be distributed by electric Zambonis to resurface the ice. An Arena Where the Goal Is ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Emissions, Even From Fans 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z During the settler attack on Wednesday, many of the plastic cisterns and pipes were damaged and will be costly to replace. In brazen attack by settlers, Palestinians see larger threat 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The water channels that used to fill it are closed now, and the cistern is no longer in use, he said. Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z She pointed to Tokyo, which has built up its flood defenses in part by constructing gargantuan underground cisterns to capture runoff and has put floodgates at subway entrances. How Can New York City Prepare for the Next Ida? Here’s a To-Do List. 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z We also added rain capture cisterns to the downspouts in order to reuse rainwater for the landscaping. The L.A. 'granny flat' built for climate change: Take a look at the eco-chic insides 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z In Nan Konsey, the earth's convulsions tore open the village's cement cisterns used to store drinking water and triggered landslides that interred residents' modest subsistence farms. Haiti's hunger crisis bites deeper after devastating quake 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Residents collect rainwater during the winter months in plastic cisterns and purchase expensive water tankers from nearby cities. In brazen attack by settlers, Palestinians see larger threat 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Jorge Cases, 36, a tourist from Spain, said he discovered the cistern by accident. Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z In their down time they went swimming in a cistern that had held water for the horses and other animals. Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z It always ends back up the mountain, where he empties the tanks into his home cistern, sanitizes the contents with bleach, then pumps it into his home for bathing and washing clothes. After generations of hauling water, a corner of Appalachia still waits for a better future 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The oil settled on cars, gardens, rooftops and cisterns filled with rainwater that residents use for drinking, cooking and bathing. EPA, U.S. Virgin Islands officials launch probe after second St. Croix refinery accident 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z “A lot of people live with cistern water, rainfall off the roof. Whatever goes in there you drink,” she said. Refinery rained oil onto Virgin Islands community that awaits cleanup a month later 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Pat would hide bottles of vodka around the house - under the mattress, between towels in the bathroom cupboard, in the toilet cistern. 'My mum was an alcoholic and it was a massive secret' 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Following complaints about flooding and weak water pressure from residents of the Cecil Hotel, a hotel maintenance worker inspects one of the large metal water cisterns on the roof. Timeline: The strange case at the center of Netflix's Cecil Hotel docuseries 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z You haul that home, dump that into your cistern, and you have water in your house. Coronavirus is Attacking the Navajo 'Because We Have Built the Perfect Human for it to Invade' 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The ammunition stash was found hidden in a cistern dating back to the period of the British Mandate in Palestine, which ended in 1948. Jordanian ammunition stash from the Six-Day War discovered near Jerusalem's Western Wall 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “We were hanging on from the cistern with German shepherds barking at our legs,” she says. Pills, mills and bellyaches: how Blackburn out-partied Manchester 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z A geothermal heat pump system provides warmth that radiates from the floors and rainwater collected in a 56,000-gallon cistern is purified for drinking. The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “He has massive lead orders” for building roofs, gutters, and cisterns, which are reflected in taxes on mines in the Peak District and at Carlisle in Northern England. Lead pollution in ancient ice cores may track the rise and fall of medieval kings 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z The green areas of the park will also be able to store up to 750,000 gallons, and a 50,000-gallon underwater cistern will reuse rainwater to irrigate the park’s lawn and plants. Hoboken gets boost for park that will also hold floodwaters 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Last week, a film of petrol blue coloured grease was visible in the cistern and sink where Fuller brushes her teeth. 'We can't live like this': residents say a corrupt pipeline project is making them sick 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Kathmandu Valley’s water delivery is so poor that its recipients average as little as one hour of running water every week, during which they’re expected to fill rooftop or underground cisterns. The Merchants of Thirst 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z They’re part of the casino’s broader energy efficient strategy, which includes installing low-water fixtures, cisterns that harvest rainwater for irrigation, LED lighting, and electric vehicle charging stations, the Republican newspaper of Springfield reports. MGM Springfield installs solar panels to help power casino 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The tanks were also supplied with extra seawater from a cistern, the regional director of antiquities and leader of the excavations, Chryssa Sofianou, told Live Science. Gold and jewels found on Minoan Island devoted to the color purple 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z His wife saves dirty dishwater to fill the cistern. South Africa's Karoo drills and prays as taps run dry 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z People collect rainwater in a cistern and store it in plastic bags. Coca-Cola country in southern Mexico – photo essay 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Each spring fed water to a collecting cistern called Comiston Spring House. The houses hiding a city's water secrets 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Endless suicides, women who drown themselves in cisterns, hang themselves by doorknobs: Atwood, perhaps in homage to a Puritan ancestor who was hung for a witch, pays particular attention to the primitive nature of hanging. Review: Margaret Atwood’s 'The Testaments' reminds us of the power of the book— and of women 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z In function it resembles an aljibe, a technique developed by Arab residents of Spain many centuries ago, in which rainwater is collected and stored in a kind of cistern underneath a building. The rain in Spain: how an ancient Arabic technique saves Alicante from floods 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z They’ve also emphasized the need to do more things such as ripping up concrete, and building water retention ponds and underground cisterns. Louisiana faces triple threat of storm surge, river, rain 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z No one from the government had come to inspect, or to supply water from cistern trucks. Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z To bathe or flush the toilet, Freeman has to empty gallons of bottled water or use a hand pump to retrieve water from an underground cistern. Housing crunch mars hurricane recovery in the Virgin Islands 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It sounds as though the composer, who remains motionless and expressionless in his chair throughout, is falling deeper and deeper into a cistern until he is lost. Antidote for a generation obsessed with screens and constant stimulus: slow, quiet music 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Engravings of ships were also recently found on an ancient water cistern discovered in a city in the Negev desert. 1,600-year-old estate that belonged to a wealthy ancient Samaritan discovered in Israel 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z One of the bases for his book, The Water of Life, was a fairly literal reading of Proverbs 5:15: “Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.” Drinking your own urine? There's a Facebook group for that. Two, even 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z After a tour of the little station complex – the Victorian quarters; the lighthouse, which remains operational; a centuries old-rain cistern – they enjoy a multi-course dinner and a gourmet breakfast the next morning. San Francisco lighthouse seeks caretakers. Salary: $130,000 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Another such clavo, which he described as being underwater, included a cistern. El Chapo’s Early Days as a Budding Kingpin 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z In a separate project, engravings of ships were found on an ancient water cistern discovered in a city in the Negev desert. 9,000-year-old rare stone mask discovered in Israel 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Better yet, install a high-capacity cistern to hold rainwater either above or below ground. Your December garden chore list: Water wisely, plant liberally and beware of frosts 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In a separate project, engravings of ships were found on an ancient water cistern discovered in Israel's Negev desert. Stunning biblical mosaics revealed in detail for the first time 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Engravings of ships, for example, were recently found on an ancient water cistern discovered in a city in the Negev desert. 'Jesus' face' uncovered at ancient church in the Israeli desert 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The cistern likely served a nearby Roman residence, she added. 'Ships in the desert': Strange 2,000-year-old graffiti discovered in Israel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z There are seven large cisterns on the side of the home, each able to hold about 2,500 gallons of water. Listing offers glimpse of ‘off the grid’ living on island 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Outside the door of their farmhouse was a cistern where Matt would sit before coming inside for the night, and a young ash tree with branches still low enough to reach. Is help finally at hand for suicide crisis on America’s farms? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Many residents have been obliged to use water transported by cistern trucks. Chilean villagers claim British appetite for avocados is draining region dry 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Some people reclined under palm trees, while others drew water from a cistern for makeshift baths. The caravan of Central American migrants that drew Trump's attention is looking at options from a sports complex in Mexico 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The cistern was apparently in use until relatively recently – archaeologists discovered ammunition shells and parts of weapons dated to World War I in its sediment. 'Ships in the desert': Strange 2,000-year-old graffiti discovered in Israel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “The rainwater comes off the roof, it’s collected and drains down into the cistern,” Irvin said. Listing offers glimpse of ‘off the grid’ living on island 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Crews used remote video cameras and other “Batman-like” tools to locate the boy in the vast network of pipes and cisterns, Scott said. Inside the frantic search for the 13-year-old boy lost deep in L.A. waterworks 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z To keep her sanity while sitting on the relatively sanitary cistern, Mrs Marnoch is blogging on Twitter while playing 'I spy' with shoppers outside. Woman's portable loo charity lock-in 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Stay at the new boutique Brown Jerusalem Hotel, which will open soon in a restored Ottoman-era villa and serve drinks in an underground water cistern. The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2017 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Engravings of ships have been found on an ancient water cistern discovered in a city in Israel’s Negev desert. 'Ships in the desert': Strange 2,000-year-old graffiti discovered in Israel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “I ran out of water once and then the rain came and all the cisterns filled up,” Al-Khatib said. Listing offers glimpse of ‘off the grid’ living on island 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Francis carries pails collected from the cistern up a steep hill and flights of stairs to supply her apartment. US Virgin Islands: The American citizens battered by hurricane Maria - and forgotten 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns in Kasukabe north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that illustrates the site’s immense task: protecting the world’s most populous metropolis from flooding. Extreme weather a big test for Tokyo’s elaborate defense against flooding 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns here north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that underscores the site’s immense task: protecting the world’s most populous metropolis from flooding. Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “After initial clearing a well hewn and plastered staircase leading into the depth of the cistern was exposed,” officials explained, in a statement. 'Ships in the desert': Strange 2,000-year-old graffiti discovered in Israel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Most people get their water from cisterns that collect rainwater under their homes. ‘Are You FEMA?’ A Reporter Returns to the Islands to Find Despair 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Rainwater cisterns fed eco-friendly plumbing, while solar panels stationed by the rooftop garden powered units that sold for about $150,000. Mexico City Quake Jolts Complacency Over Code Enforcement 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z A series of tunnels connects the cisterns to a vast tank, larger than a soccer field, with ceilings held up by 60-foot pillars that give the space a temple-like feel. Extreme weather a big test for Tokyo’s elaborate defense against flooding 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Five vertical, underground cisterns, almost 250 feet deep, take in storm water from four rivers north of Tokyo. Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Thinly engraved lines were found on the plaster walls of the cistern. 'Ships in the desert': Strange 2,000-year-old graffiti discovered in Israel 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z An old colleague told me she dips a bucket into her cistern to draw the water out ande then heats it on her gas stove. ‘Are You FEMA?’ A Reporter Returns to the Islands to Find Despair 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “Most people there have a house on a concrete slab, a cistern and ‘soakaway’ system for their toilet. Hurricane Irma leaves UK’s Caribbean tax havens relying on volunteers 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Toilet cisterns may be less “eco-friendly”, people may worry a little less about watering the garden with a chlorinated supply designed for human consumption, not for plants. Is inequality bad for the environment? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z A series of tunnels connect the cisterns to a vast tank, larger than a soccer field, with ceilings held up by 60-foot pillars that give the space a temple-like feel. Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Since starting their work in New Mexico, the project team has installed water cistern systems in 46 Navajo homes. Navajo Nation reservation in need of running water 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z In the backyard are chickens and a 5,000-gallon underground cistern that holds rainwater. Prepare to have garden envy at L.A.'s premier native plant tour 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Durzi said settler appropriation of springs forces Palestinian villagers to drastically reduce village herds, while Israeli authorities deny Palestinians permits for wells and cisterns and demolish nonpermitted irrigation. Small farmers struggle worldwide, but Palestinian farmers really have it rough 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z What has been made to emerge is astounding—a very ancient stone building, with from twenty to thirty rooms and thirteen cisterns for water, and with a good deal of its equipment intact. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z A nuclear survival guide which earnestly advised people to brick up windows and remove handles from toilet cisterns in the event of Armageddon is to be republished by the Imperial War Museum. Protect and Survive: Armageddon advice guide to be republished 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The team cut the bolts, released it from the cistern, put it into a box and transported it by van to their workshop. A Roman Sarcophagus Is Rescued from Humble Duty as a Flower Pot 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z She described one “freedom seeker” who hid in an empty Quindaro cistern all night so slave hunters wouldn’t find her. Where slaves found freedom, Quindaro Ruins await new life 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Vernon said he witnessed other sites where, by looking in a cistern, archaeologists were able to determine how people of other time periods lived. Union Missionary Baptist Church in Texas draws attention 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Among the most striking features of the monastery are the six large cisterns, with steps leading down into them, upon which the inmates depended for water. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z So she, too, orders pipas to come to fill her cistern. Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z A crater gaped in the street; a metal cistern raised on stilts was spewing water. The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Blank has also used the stadium itself to help; among other ways, by building a 680,000-gallon cistern to capture rainwater that might otherwise flood the local streets. As Falcons Build a Stadium, Arthur Blank Tries Rebuilding a Neighborhood 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z A South Los Angeles street will get an environmentally friendly face-lift, and new rain gardens and cisterns soon will appear at homes across Los Angeles County thanks to a $4-million settlement reached late last month. $4-million settlement will fund stormwater projects and a 'green street' for Watts 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Into these cisterns they evidently canalized the rains, which descended by a trough from the hills and of which the supply was undoubtedly scant. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea 1955-05-06T04:00:00Z Before New York City had public water, people used outhouses, with a separate cistern to store water. Drunk history: the weirdest artifacts from New York's wild past 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z At the center of town is Piazza della Cisterna, named for the cistern that is served by the old well standing in the center of this square. San Gimignano: Tower power in Tuscany 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The home has two cisterns to collect rain water and to collect water from the sump pump. Beneath a Victorian in Arlington, a recording studio lies hushed 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The vegetables and fruit are kept watered from a 1,200-gallon cistern replenished by rain collected off the garage’s metal roof. A Shoreline garden provides a bounty of food, plus spaces for dining, strolling and artwork 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The Nawaja clan are stubborn, tough, poor shepherds who have spent the past three decades subsisting with brackish cistern water and a trickle of power from a generator. A ramshackle village at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Excavator Todd Gendron says it’s the third historic cistern he’s unearthed in his career. Maine contractor finds historic, buried cistern in Lewiston 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z Brick interior, basement and cistern; multiple windows, six portholes, seven-foot-diameter lantern room with active fog warning horn. Curious: Mitt Romney’s old presidential campaign site is still active 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “We use the water from our cisterns for landscaping, and we hope to use it as gray water in our home in the future.” Beneath a Victorian in Arlington, a recording studio lies hushed 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The family moved to Majorca, to a house with no plumbing, where they drew their drinking water from a rain cistern. The Psychedelic Garden of Tuscany 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Outside the house, three plastic cisterns - two for the house and one for a shop building - together collect up to 3,000 gallons of rain from the metal roofs. Bellingham house uses the sun for heat, water, power, cars 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z They collected more than 700 artifacts from a 19th-century brick cistern, two heaps of bottles and a small deposit of oyster shells. Awakening the Bowery’s Ghosts 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The group works to install rainwater cisterns in private homes – particularly in low-income communities – that collect rainwater to be used for cleaning and flushing toilets. See how Brazil's biggest city is fighting a historic drought 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Martinez said the ruins of Zultepec-Tecoaque suggest its inhabitants tried to quickly abandon and hide evidence of the sacrifices by tossing the Europeans’ belongings in certain rooms and in cisterns. Conquistadors sacrificed and eaten by Aztec-era people, archaeologists say 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z “My cistern - every brick of it rebuilt in the chimney of my late Wyandotte home - played its part in the drama of freedom,” Nichols recalled. Secret network in Kansas helped blacks escape slavery 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The men were close friends and used a mobile water tank to clean out the cistern each year. Coroner identifies 2 men found dead in Pennsylvania cistern 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z "Look, there are families living here in tents. There's a cave, water cisterns and places where we put our sheep," Susiya resident Nasser Nawaja points out. Susiya: Palestinian West Bank village faces bleak end - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “We survive,” he said, adding that he was envious of neighbors with cisterns. In Drought, Puerto Rico Rations Water, Setting Off a Collection Frenzy 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z It includes a rain garden, public use pavilion, cistern and sand filter and signs to explain the project. MSU honored for rain garden project 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Into this cistern Caroline was lowered with comforters, pillow and chair. Secret network in Kansas helped blacks escape slavery 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The district is also looking at ways to hold more runoff with things like green infrastructure, additional reservoirs and large cisterns attached to home roof gutters, she said. Can Local Officials Who Ignore Climate Change Risks Be Sued? 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Water collection cisterns on roofs help with both flooding and droughts. A Researcher who Modeled Texas's Blanco River in 2007 Probes for Lessons After the Deadly Flash Flood 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The rest area located about a mile south of Chocowinity is equipped with a 3,000-gallon underground cistern that catches rainwater off the rooftop for irrigation, which helps control stormwater runoff. New rest area opens on US Highway 17 in Beaufort County 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z “Green infrastructure” means things such as porous pavement, cisterns, rain gardens and roof gardens — like the one atop the Fort Reno Reservoir that hosted Wednesday’s news conference. D.C. will use roof gardens — among other things — to clean city waterways 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Lucas Davenport chases a serial killer after more than 15 bodies turn up in a Minnesota cistern. Washington Post Bestsellers May 10, 2015 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z You can play mini-golf in an underground cistern, and the new restaurants of Matera produce extraordinarily good food, turning what was once shameful into a source of pride. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “We have a lot of opportunity to increase storage at the household and business level, by expanding use of rain barrels, cisterns, and swales to capture runoff more effectively.” Three Ways U.S. West Can Adapt to Deep Drought 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Her body was found in a sewer cistern at the resort. US producer sentenced to 12 years in wife's Mexico killing 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Investigators found he had secretly photographed pupils at the school he worked by concealing a camera on the water cistern in the toilets. Welsh arrests in global abuse probe 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The stark utterance clanged like a hammer against an empty cistern. An excerpt from "Bella's Gift" 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z An old cistern had been turned into a small swimming pool. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Dr. Simpson watched a man atop a floating, spinning cistern, struggling to keep his balance as he held a baby. Robert Simpson, co-creator of 1-to-5 hurricane model, dies at 102 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z The cistern is in the backyard of a home where Couch lived with his mother. Berryville police ID man found dead in cistern 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Prince George’s officials also hope the church rebate program will spur the growth of a stormwater management industry that would create jobs — manufacturing rain barrels or cisterns, for example, or building green roofs. Churches receive stormwater fee discounts by starting ‘green’ ministries, sermons Water was carried from the river in leather bags to fill the cisterns. An urbanist's guide to Cairo: ‘a city weighed down by stereotypes’ 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He showed me the outlines of old cisterns and called up the names of farmers who had cultivated the olive and fig trees that now grew wild. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z He ticked off a litany of municipal resources for cisterns, composting toilets, retrofit grants, equipment, housing assistance, and programs to sell excess solar power to the grid. Off the Grid in a Florida Suburb, Fighting Municipal Code 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z It included a lever to tip the wine bottle, a Christmas pudding rising through the floor and what looks like an old-fashioned toilet cistern dropping clean plates for the diners to catch. The elaborate appeal of Heath Robinson 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The former tavern sits on 18 acres of rolling farmland that includes a barn, the remnants of an earlier home or summer kitchen and an original hand-dug cistern and well. Residents say warehouses pose threat to rural life 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Atema’s plan, called Street Creeks, would create a series of covered curbside channels that, in conjunction with cisterns and vegetation, would collect and clean water before it enters the city’s waterways. Big City: The Once and Future Gowanus 2014-02-22T20:24:13Z A deep cistern was on display under glass. A Cave with a View 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z A one-inch pipe brings a trickle of water to the 500 residents, who dug 10 cisterns and pay to have sewage pumped out every 18 months. In an Israeli Plan, Bedouins See a Threat to Their Way of Life 2013-12-08T00:04:37Z The research, which cost £76,000, suggested five litres per flush as a European standard, while modern British cisterns typically use six litres. VIDEO: 'Absurd' cost of water flushing advice 2013-10-31T13:44:12Z The official said the cistern was outside the sealed core of the submarine where the reactors are located, according to RIA. Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear submarine 2013-09-16T09:56:11Z The isolation put me in a cistern, dark and deep. Twelve Minutes of Freedom in 460 Days of Captivity 2013-08-28T18:07:36Z Instead, people turned to wells, cisterns, and small streams for water for everyday use. A Right to Be Clean: Sanitation and the Rise of New York City's Water Towers 2013-02-18T14:45:05.333Z They detailed for visitors how World Bank money was being spent: rural tracks planned; olive groves planted against soil erosion; scattered landholding regrouped for easier farming; cisterns installed to store rainwater. Tunisia's rural poor pose steep learning curve for World Bank-funded scheme 2012-12-07T13:07:47Z The dual flush loo has two buttons to dispatch different amounts of water from the cistern - a half-flush for liquid waste and a full one for more heavy-duty deposits. 10 Australian inventions 2012-11-08T00:10:47Z The Fiver goes to the toilet, fishes out the spare bag of cylinders it had earlier hidden in the cistern, and returns to the desk. The Fiver 2012-08-24T15:00:14Z The bags hold crystals which expand once placed in toilet cisterns. Flush bags to help conserve water 2012-08-01T00:19:43Z As a teenager, I worked in that market, and once found Mr Charlie's whiskey hidden in the cistern of the store's toilet. Is the ideal of small-town America a myth? 2012-07-05T20:46:49Z This leveling likely removed four or five feet of soil, which perhaps they used to construct a large cistern to the south of the village. Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa [Excerpt] 2012-06-29T13:15:00.210Z In the meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents, using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. In Land of Hydraulic Fracturing, a Battle Over Water Pollution 2012-06-02T04:06:49Z When I undid the door of the crate the brute was making a noise like a discontented cistern. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z I swear to slake my thirst in the cistern of Mohammad's "qawm." The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z On his arrival at home he is thrown into a cistern by his treacherous brothers, who take his spoil to the king. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z After leveling this area, and constructing the cistern, the residents of Dominase began to construct their houses on top of the newly leveled area. Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa [Excerpt] 2012-06-29T13:15:00.210Z It is unclear whether Encana will defray any of the cost of the cistern water. In Land of Hydraulic Fracturing, a Battle Over Water Pollution 2012-06-02T04:06:49Z "We have a large cistern, which is supplied by an unfailing stream that comes down from the west." The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z As Archbishop Leighton has said, God closes up the way to every broken cistern, one after another, that He may induce you, baffled everywhere else, to take the way to the fountain of living waters. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Then the keepers would throw whole buckets of water on him, drawn cold from the cistern. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z The heads of the principal landholding families in the area all lived in Dominase, and much of the infrastructure of these communities, such as the well and cistern, were located there. Archaeology Challenges the History of Development and Poverty in Africa [Excerpt] 2012-06-29T13:15:00.210Z At a meeting at the town high school on Thursday night, state environmental and water officials explained how the cisterns would work to about 50 people in attendance. In Land of Hydraulic Fracturing, a Battle Over Water Pollution 2012-06-02T04:06:49Z We will observe the operation in one of the ten lines of action, as it were, consisting of the pipe conducting the water from the cistern, the compressing-machine, and the cylindrical recipient. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Many of the inhabitants cast their precious jewels and money into wells and cisterns, or hid them in places underground, to avoid as much as possible being totally robbed. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z An engine and pumping-house was erected over the cistern, a steam-engine and gear were procured, and the water was sent through a ten-inch main to the reservoir, which was on Block House Hill. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Most residents seemed open to installing cisterns, peppering the officials with questions. In Land of Hydraulic Fracturing, a Battle Over Water Pollution 2012-06-02T04:06:49Z The only sure method of ascertaining the quantity of water evaporated is by actual measurement with a cistern or vessel whose cubic contents are accurately known. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z To remove the odor from cistern water, suspend in the water a bag containing a peck of charcoal. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Just beyond the Alameda is a great cistern, from which is drawn much of the water for supplying the town. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper.- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z When heavy rains fell, little grooves carried the drops of water to these holes and they became small cisterns. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z Ally and Stiffy," commanded Daphne, turning to the two remaining members of the family, "you'd better go and pump the cistern full. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Is the water-supply of each closet entirely cut off from the main supply to the house by means of a tank or cistern? A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z It has three cisterns for collecting rainwater; two are 17-18 ft. deep, have a capacity of about 60,000 gallons and are covered by arched roofs supported on six stone pillars. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z We found a grand volcano Close to the servants' room, It really was the cistern, But it made a fearful boom. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z Under the house and the terrace that surrounded it, were the cisterns, ice-house, cellar, kitchen, and rooms for all sorts of purposes. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Up his sordid stairs in secret to the cistern now he steals, Where, amidst organic matter, gambol microscopic eels; Tremblingly he turns the tap on—not a trickle greets the trough! Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z Each room likewise contains a washstand, with faucets for hot and cold water, the latter supplied from a cistern on the roof, the former from the office heater. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The third cistern is smaller and has no roof. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z This seems a very plausible account, and as the spring rose at a high level, it had sufficient pressure to obviate the necessity of a cistern as was erroneously supposed in connection with the Lavabo. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z On the upper side of large commercial orchards, large cisterns are constructed which are filled by a small steam pump. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z The largest body of water she had seen at home had been the cistern, and most of the time it was low tide in that. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z The water is capable of being made fit for all domestic purposes, thus obviating the necessity for cisterns, the birthplace of millions of moschetoes, and, possibly the source of much sickness. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z He's done something with that there cistern and burst it. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Have cisterns, so that you can have plenty of rain water for washing. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z By means of an unfailing supply of living water the whole ranch is well watered, and has besides a very large cistern. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z From the pulper-box the parchment coffee is shoveled to the "cisterns"—enormous square wooden vats. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The profits arising from this sale were appropriated to the purposes of assisting to defray the expenses of the new public cistern lately erected. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Almost every kitchen and oven in the island was destroyed; and many of the capacious cisterns ruined. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Public cisterns, or other like conveniences for the use of firemen, were then unknown. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z For this reason the rainfall is limited to a short season, and the population is compelled to store rainwater in cisterns for drinking purposes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z It is described in “Bleak House” as being “A narrow street of high houses like an oblong cistern to hold the fog.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z They consist of what appears to have been a cistern, probably the first built in the island, and a low wall of stone, marking the foundation of the government house. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z In the last dig season alone, the archaeologists uncovered port walls, elaborate buildings, an enormous cistern, a Byzantine church and stone roads spanning more than 1,000 years of occupation. Istanbul Yields a Treasure Trove in Ancient Bathonea 2012-01-23T23:12:54Z The place for washing is in the open yard, where there is a large cistern, several towels, and a negro in attendance. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z The frightened herd, stupid with fear, were throwing their money and jewels into wells and cisterns, or burying their treasure in their courtyards, cellars, gardens, and chapels. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z “I hope he hasn’t butted one of the children down the cistern.” The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z It made a whirling chaos of the murk, it wrung the treetops, but the air along the ground was stagnant as a cistern. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z He placed within the receiver the cistern of a mercurial barometer, the tube of which was made to pass through the central hole in the brass plate, from which the stopper had been removed. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z In the villages of Moose and S�oui on Kar-Nicobar we saw several such cisterns, which always had eight or ten feet good fresh water. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z The evening they spent in searching the ruins for gold, melted or hidden, and found much spoil, especially in wells and cisterns. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z Thus, for example, the guide does not fail to point out to the stranger a sort of stone cistern hewn out of the solid rock, traditionally reported to have been once the plunge-bath of Dubrotis. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z If the circulating water be pumped into the jacket, it is preferable, wherever possible, to use cistern water, which is not likely to contain lime salts in suspension. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z At each stroke of the pump the mercury in the barometer tube descended, but through successively diminishing distances, until at length it stood only an inch above the mercury in the cistern. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z The great increase of the supply of water to houses by machinery led to a demand for a safer and cheaper material than lead for cisterns; and slate supplied the want. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z As to Campolide, I may add that beneath the surface were cut various water channels, amongst them a fine cistern constructed by one of my predecessors as director of the college. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The mills are provided with a drenching apparatus so arranged that in case of one mill firing it and its neighbours will be drowned by water from a cistern or tank immediately above the mill. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Passing through this the worshipper entered the courtyard, or atrium, round which ran a covered portico, or cloister, and in the centre of which was a fountain, or cistern, of water. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z It was originally built for two separate residences, with double entrances upon the street and water-side, two staircases and two cisterns. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Their prayers are sweet to souls in purgatory, yea, refreshing; for every Ave is a bucket of water falling on their back, every Pater a cistern.” The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Not even the cistern out of which the Prophet rises was discoverable—Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z You are hewing out for yourselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z They show us an enormous cistern for rain water. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The manner of preparing it is as follows: dissolving it in water, they boil it, and then they transfer it to cisterns and leave it to settle. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Some have thought that the cheese might be improved by cooling the evening's milk still more rapidly, and that this might be effected by repeatedly drawing it off from and returning it into the cistern. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z To the right there is a gigantic staircase, to the left, at the back, an old cistern surrounded by a wall of green bronze. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z He that for his cistern's guarding trusts not in his own stout arm Sees it ruined: he must harm his foe or he must suffer harm. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The water flowed from its foliage, uninterruptedly, drop by drop, and was collected in cisterns. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The sweet, clean water of his nature must have run out on to desert sands; the cistern of the body into which it had so swiftly and boyishly bubbled all these years was empty. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Truly it was a broken cistern which could hold no water,—a broken reed which pierced his hand. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z From time to time the Princess is interrupted by a messenger from the Tetrarch requesting her to return, but she has no thought for anyone but the prisoner in the cistern. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z A cache is a cellar, usually round, with a small opening above, barely large enough to allow a person to descend; when finished, it looks much like an ordinary round cistern. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z These were plated with seven sheets of gold, and above them hung objects of silver, round as to form, from which shot numerous braids down into the cisterns. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z I had a friend whose path was pain— Oppressed by all the cares of earth Life gave him little chance to drain His secret cisterns of rich mirth. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z It sets aside "a broken cistern, which can hold no water," to set in its place "the Fountain of living waters." Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z As soon as his scared official has disappeared into the cistern Salom� leans over it and listens. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The peculiar resonance reminded me of noises reverberating in an empty cask or cistern. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z They were so large that a person could live in such a cistern, and this is also reported as having happened. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z Authorities pumped water from the cistern into holding tanks the nearby truck. Many searches, few clues in disappearance of Kansas City baby now missing for more than week 2011-10-12T18:31:52Z In a smaller court beyond is a very beautiful cistern by Terribilia. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z In the utilitarian days of water companies and water rates the image that the word cistern evokes is painfully reminiscent of a metal tank in the lumber-room of a suburban residence. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Everything that can be done the evening before should be done—boot cleaning, knife polishing, filling cistern and filter, and preparing the range for immediate lighting. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z One does not drink but cistern water, much superior to that of the only fountain which is in the center of a large square; and which serves only as watering trough for animals. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z On Tuesday, police searched a nearby abandoned home and cistern, while more than 30 detectives pursued additional leads. Many searches, few clues in disappearance of Kansas City baby now missing for more than week 2011-10-12T18:31:52Z It breeds chiefly in and near towns, depositing its larvæ upon the surface of cisterns or stagnant pools. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z A larger battery made of copper and zinc disks with salt solution would decompose water from the cistern. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z The Egyptian, who had been watching the sluggish goldfish floating in the weed-grown cistern of the court, entered the room with an air of importance. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The water fairy who had come to the cistern had seen her great beauty and had thrown a charm over her. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z Their next test was in a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judean hills where mosquitoes laid their eggs in underground rainwater storage cisterns. Small Fixes: Poisoned Nectar Is a Double-Edged Delicacy for Mosquitoes 2011-09-26T22:14:35Z Formerly water for domestic use was stored in cisterns, tanks, tubs, jars, and so forth, and, after rain, water stood stagnantly in a thousand ruts and holes in the unpaved squares, streets, and lanes. The Panama Canal and its Makers 2011-10-10T02:00:22.307Z She says herself that when you've been raised with a faucet and a sewer, it's terrible to get used to a cistern and a steep bank. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z Master Ghizla made his slaves dig little canals to carry the water to cisterns. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z In a moment more she fell into the cistern to join her reflection there. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z They suspended a bait at the opening of each cistern. Small Fixes: Poisoned Nectar Is a Double-Edged Delicacy for Mosquitoes 2011-09-26T22:14:35Z This is a church fair, where you get ices made out of the cream they skim off the cistern!” Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z It was as she handed me the four black hooks and the paper of screws for this purpose one evening that the sound of the cistern sank to a hissing. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z For Ghizla had called to him to see the canals which the slaves were digging to carry off the rain-water to the cisterns. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z One bright spring morning Perola leaned over the cistern where she had gone to get water. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z This interminable drought has dried up every brook on the place and the cisterns are lower than they have ever been before. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Illustration from suction of empirical method, If a layman were asked why water rises from the cistern when an ordinary pump is worked, he would doubtless answer, "By suction." How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z A stout post some feet from the wall supported one corner of this cistern, and this Aunt Angela, or rather I for her, converted into a hatstand. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z If he attained the age of twenty-five years, he was drowned by the attendant priests in the sacred cistern; his body was then carefully embalmed, and buried in the temple of Serapis. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The water fairy had taken Perola through an underground passage which led from the cistern to the beautiful enchanted palace in the lake of Ginjal. Minor Poems Little Classics, Vol. 15 2011-09-29T02:00:16.533Z We keep one cistern always full—not so much in case of drought as in case of fire; it might be needed some day.” The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z On the north side of the trunk are two large tanks or cisterns of rough stone, or rather one cistern divided, each half being twenty feet square, and sixteen spans in depth. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z But there was nothing to be done with the cistern; if she stayed there she would have to get used to it, that was all. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Freely the water of life flows into all cisterns from the ever fresh stream, into which the infinite depth of that unfathomable sea of good pours itself. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z I consequently took off my clothes, and removing the lid of the cistern, I was let down through a hole in the floor into the waters below. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z And if there's no place near enough to pipe it from, they'd build cisterns. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z Between the four posts, dropping some two feet from the ceiling, was what looked like the lower part of a large cistern or tank. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Then came the blow on the back of my head, and the sounds of the cistern ceased. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Why should we leave the fountain of living waters to hew out for ourselves, with infinite pains, broken cisterns that can hold no water? The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z I felt I had seen enough of the cistern. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z But in time she pumped the cistern dry. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z He kept poor old Heavisides outside the landing window on the top of the cistern for a quarter of an hour, till I had to come and raise the siege!' The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Not quite knowing what I did, I found myself crossing to the table under the cistern and returning again with a great hacked-off piece of tongue. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z The trident-mark and the well, both destroyed when the mediaeval cistern was cut, were situated in the southwest part of the Erechtheum. Problems in Periclean Buildings 2011-08-26T02:00:29.353Z He was afraid that the police would find his tools, so he threw them all into our cistern. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The town was once famous for its exports of olive-oil, which was stored, until it clarified, in cisterns cut in the rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z And what rejoicing there would be, when in the summer drought there at last began a rain that filled the spare clay cisterns with water! Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z They seemed to have come for the evening, for their hats were on the hooks on the cistern post. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z The south foundation appears to key into that for the interior wall, but on examination it will be seen that the poros block in question has been cut back by those who enlarged the cistern. Problems in Periclean Buildings 2011-08-26T02:00:29.353Z "If the police come to search the house you will have to get into the cistern." Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Others have constructed cisterns in which to store truth, or aqueducts to convey it from higher levels. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The trip to the distant town for supplies must be made; the cistern must be refilled, and more ground gotten ready for seeding before the frost came. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z Life seems to be retreating before the pitiless sun, yet the sear, scorched grasses will be green again in a few weeks when the cisterns of the autumn rains open upon them. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z And next to the cistern there was a large water-tight well for fish, made so with beams of wood and lead. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Poor Clara covered her face in an instant, and a loud rustling of the ivy on the edge of the cistern, the sound of a body falling, and then came retreating feet along the gravel. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z By the faint glimmer of the stars she could make out that there were hollows in the stone side of the cistern by which a person could easily climb out. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z The cistern was to be filled and as much more ground made ready for the plow as was possible before the rush. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z A compressor having tanks or cisterns in the cellar filled with cool or cold air may be set to work to reduce the temperature of the house and fan the inmates with a refreshing breeze. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z And Anaxilas speaks of water from cisterns, in his Flute Player, using the following expressions:— A. I want some water from a cistern now. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Then came tramping in Mrs Blunt and the three teachers, and as they whispered together, I was quite startled, for they talked about something being dragged out of the cistern with the tongs. A Fluttered Dovecote 2011-07-29T02:00:21.880Z The upper end of the line was marked “36 feet west of cistern.” The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z The task of filling the cistern consumed many days, and required numberless trips to and from the well. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z Tuesday’s hearing comes 15 months after the naked body of Monica Beresford-Redman was found in a sewer cistern at the resort where she and her family were staying. TV producer charged with killing wife in Mexico to make pitch for release in LA court 2011-07-12T07:14:54Z There were too, Brazen goblets, large as cisterns, Holding plenty for a dozen Of the hardest drinkers known. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z And in the hush no sound did mar, You almost heard o'er hill and dell, Deep, bubbling over, star on star, The night's blue cisterns slowly well. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The cistern was in the shadow and everyone was watching the fire so intently that he was able to emerge unseen. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Water for their horses was obtained from a newly made cistern at the edge of a large area of newly plowed land. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z For that spot was now enveloped in a cloud of white steam, which was pouring out through the hole knocked in the end of the saloon by the iron cover of the cistern. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z There was also a cistern near the head of the ship, carefully shut, and containing two thousand measures of water, made of beams closely compacted with pitch and canvass. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z When I had eaten this eagerly, I felt stronger, and dragged myself at once from the camel yard; and, though my hands and feet were trembling, I began to carry water again to the cistern. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z He had disappeared so utterly by jumping down the cistern. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z This work was given to Gully, who cleared several acres, fenced it, and put her down a cistern similar to the one he had constructed on his own place. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z An error of one foot in a hoop made to go round a tub or cistern of seven feet in diameter, would hardly be tolerated even in an apprentice. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z All through town are systems for filtering and capturing rainwater, which is stored in underground cisterns for irrigation when the weather is dry. Kansas town rises green from tornado rubble 2011-06-25T19:07:20Z Therefore they loved her; and when she came to the cistern they kissed her garments, calling her their patroness. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Then the family had returned and he had had a narrow escape into the cistern. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z The next method of determining time depended on the uniform motion of water from a cistern. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Elijah Butts’ plantation is about three miles from Spencer, and no water but the well and the cistern. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z At one end of the chief square of the town, the Piazza Maggiore, is the cistern by which the town is supplied with water, and a large fountain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z I went up the stream, which was salt at the seaside; I took leather bags, and drawing water carried it and poured it into a stone cistern. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z She was in the cistern—the old unused cistern which was not a great distance from the house. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z In the management of out-door plants and crops, as well as in the construction of cisterns and tanks for the supply of water, a rain gauge is a valuable assistant. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Occasionally, for years afterward, the diggers of cellars or cisterns in the buried region would unearth interesting antediluvian relics. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z They had met the child at the edge of a round cistern . Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z He strode to a circle of men waiting by the cistern at the side of the house and called for the officers. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z There was usually a covering over the cistern, but he had evidently been in a hurry and left it off. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z In fact, it forms a barometer without a cistern, the short limb answering the purpose of a cistern. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z The water supply is ample, the village being furnished with public cisterns and wells, and having an excellent fire department, with hook and ladder company. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z She fell in with them before a cistern. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z We can only draw out of a cistern the waters which we have poured into it. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Or, to bring it nearer home, who would not rather be drowned away out in the middle of Lake Michigan in a howling gale than in a gentle 7×9 cistern? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Their sensitiveness is consequently increased in an equal proportion, and they have the additional advantage of not being affected by differences of level in the cistern. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z The water supply, on account of the elevation, is from wells and cisterns. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z He was in a township run by the ANC in Free State province where there are some 1,600 toilets with cisterns and pipes but no surrounding wall. ANC anger over open-air toilets 2011-05-11T18:31:26Z Some plaintiffs experienced rashes, throat irritation and complained of property damage including contaminated cisterns. Damages claims hang over Glencore as IPO looms 2011-05-06T14:54:07Z When Salomé is leaning over the cistern, listening for the death of Iokanaan, he does not allow the executioner to come up with the head. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The upper end is closed, and formed into a bulb; the lower is turned up, formed into a cistern, and open at top, through a pipette, or cone. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z In a cistern or pond, a few fish yielded dietary protein. Another Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish 2011-05-02T06:26:10Z The fragments of the piano were found in the cistern. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z The wool, after a course of pushing to and fro in a cistern of hot water by two great rakes, is delivered to an endless web by a revolving cylinder. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z This “jack-head cistern” is sufficiently elevated to give the water entering the cylinder the velocity requisite to secure prompt condensation. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z The upper portion of the tube is filled with air; the lower portion, and part of the cistern, with sulphuric acid, coloured so as to render it plainly visible. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Only for this, my boy, we might have a gun-boat in every cistern. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z I had to have special set of eave-spouts made to run the water into a cistern on top of the kitchen. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z The paved enclosure around the tower is kept scrupulously clean, for the rain which falls thereon and flows into the cistern beneath is the only drinkable water to be had. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The whole was set in a cistern of cold water. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z When the top is held, the cistern and glass rod, instead of falling away, remain perfectly suspended. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Connors draws deeply from the well of field notes he patiently collected, like rain in his lookout’s cistern, over the course of eight summers. The ?Walden? of the Wildfire 2011-04-08T21:56:50Z “This evening the statue of the divine Isis in my chapel turned its face to the wall, and water became blood-red in the sacred cistern.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z In New Orleans 90,000 fresh water cisterns are said to be made of it. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z He use de water* out uncle's cistern for de ceremony. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z There is no material support to the cistern; the tube only is fixed, the cistern hangs to it. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z In well-regulated baths, near the cold-water enclosure is a hot water cistern, constantly fed through a bamboo pipe with boiling water that has not been used. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z I will hide somewhere in the garden; if not, I shall not sleep and to-morrow I shall look like a hen just pulled out of a cistern.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z She knew she lay over some deep cistern, or the like, and that the plank door bridged it. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z The Illinois EPA also funded installation of a 3,200 gallon stainless steel cistern that collects rainwater off the maintenance building roof. 2010 Environmental Leaders in Golf Award 2011-02-08T05:00:00Z This mercury is taken out of the cistern, which of course becomes lighter, and therefore the rod and cistern float up a little higher, which thus causes the column of mercury to rise still more. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z It is to be noted that the subterranean passages which some earlier explorers imagined to be connected with the celebration of the mysteries, have proved to be nothing but cisterns or watercourses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The molasses is received beneath in cisterns, and when they become filled, it is taken out and conveyed into barrels or hogsheads and shipped. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Nan wished she had not been so foolish as to run, for she was really frightened because of her position over the old cistern. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z To him we owe the term hippocampus, and he described the fourth ventricle very accurately, calling it the cistern of the cerebellum. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Supposing there was a decrease of pressure, the mercury would fall, come into the cistern, make it heavier, and increase the fall somewhat. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z We never made these visits without a groan, for we always forgot the existence of a big cistern, fitted up in the roof, and constantly knocked our heads against this iron ceiling. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z When all the molasses is removed from the cistern, an inferior kind of sugar is re-manufactured, which is called cistern-sugar, and sold at a lower price. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z One day they saw him coming, and they say that they must throw him into a cistern,92 and they do as they say. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The moon was shining in through the window, making a square cistern of light upon the floor. Moonshine & Clover 2011-01-06T03:00:46.940Z With an increase of pressure, some mercury will leave the cistern and rise in the tube, while the tube itself will fall, and so cause an additional ascent of mercury. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z "Suppose we put the wine into the cistern!" Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z In the centre of this court usually stands a cistern, and placed around it, in large vases, are flowers and plants of every description. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The fox comes to them on the brink of the cistern, and says to them: “I will leap in there; you will take hold of my tail one by one, and I will save you.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The slab of stone held him free from the four or five inches of almost scalding water on the floor of the cistern. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The cistern is made large enough to receive all the mercury that will fall from the tube at the highest attainable elevation. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Not too well poised on a tottering scaffolding I wriggled into the narrow space between the beam and the cistern. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again, as rain or dew when they are required. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The main hall was dank, like an empty cistern, and lighted by an opening in the ceiling, which served a twofold purpose in that it was also a means of reaching the upper floor. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Then the answer: "In the cistern—in the old cistern!" She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The cistern is encased in brass for protection, the bottom portion unscrewing to give access to the portable screw beneath the cistern. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Casting her eyes within in this kind of trance, she beheld a large cistern of gold, filled with a water, the vapour of which distilled on her face a dew of the essence of roses. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Loose stones rattled under the feet of the animals, and a wind, chilled in the cisterns of the night, swept down the ca�on, shaking the scraggly growths and animating the shadows. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z "We are in the old cistern—you and I——" "I—knew—you—would—come—for—me." She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The tube is fixed to a boxwood cistern, which is plugged with very porous cane at the top, to allow of the ready influence of a variation in atmospheric pressure upon the mercury. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z With a set of little models the girl showed how this could begin with a soft water cistern and a pump plying into a kitchen sink. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Several of the so-called cisterns, or natural tanks, had been passed, and as many pools, but all were dry, or with only just enough moisture to keep the mud in their bottoms. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z A warm wind fretted the tapering leaves of the holy tree; the sunken courtyard was a cistern of gloom where tiny yellow lights swam like foam-flecks on a dark sea. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Though cooled and replenished by floods of black rain, the rising water in the cistern was still hot. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The cistern is composed of a glass cylinder, which is secured in a metallic tube or frame. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z The water was soon found—a deep, cool cistern in the middle of the floor. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z By leaning over the side, I could see that the cistern was full of carp — thick, oily, two-feet long fish straight out of the Tigris River. Return to Baghdad: How to Cook Carp, Iraqi-Style 2010-10-05T22:30:00Z She says it sounds like the cistern is talking to her when she’s downstairs and it’s upstairs. Roddy Doyle: “Ash.” 2010-05-17T04:00:00Z They left Father Fontanel in the carriage, and approached the cistern. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z It appears as though the cistern with the mercury in it must fall to the ground. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. Can Humans Manage the Atmosphere? 2010-03-31T14:21:00Z An intricate system of cisterns that uses both the well and rainwater serves the 10 houses he has developed, 5 of which are currently rented. At Home With Walt Frazier: The Transition Game 2010-02-25T01:23:00Z Designers from the Work Architecture Company have incorporated a chicken coop, a composting system, an outdoor pizza oven and a cistern to collect rainwater. 2010-01-20T17:27:00Z And to think I should have found the old cistern in the night!... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z A long glass rod is fixed to the bottom of the glass cistern, where a piece of cork or some elastic substance is also placed. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z In cities, lead pipes are commonly used to convey water through the houses; lead being also used in the construction of roofs, cisterns, and vessels for keeping water and other liquids. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers They consist of chambers of Rock-dwellings and tombs. various sizes, some of which were evidently human habitations, together with cisterns, channels, seats, steps, terraces and quadrangular tombs, all cut in the rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" According to Bunsen's account, the laugs, or cisterns of hot water, in Iceland must be extremely beautiful. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Slabs of stone from the side-walls had fallen into the cistern, which seemed to contain little or no water.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Round the neck of the cistern is formed a brass ring, with a screw thread on its circumference. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z In consequence of the fact that many natural waters attack lead, the use of lead service pipes for wells, cisterns, and public water supplies has given rise to numerous outbreaks of lead poisoning. Food Poisoning A great number of wells were also sunk and rain-water was stored in cisterns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The water contains silica in solution, which, as the walls of the cistern arose, was deposited upon them in fantastic incrustations. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Within, he found the orifice of an old cistern, partially covered by unfixed planking. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The tube, being fixed to the cistern, may have a moveable scale applied to it. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Hitherto water had had to be stored during the dry season in tanks and cisterns, in which the stegomyia mosquito revelled exceedingly. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise |
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