water-conduit

It was not only the echo, the duplication of a past sensation that the water-conduit had caused me to experience, it was the sensation itself.

Time Regained 2003

If, after years I rediscovered the simplest social relationship or even a material object in my memory, I perceived that life had been ceaselessly weaving threads about it which in the end became a beautiful velvet covering like the emerald sheath of a water-conduit in an ancient park.

Time Regained 2003

The Ageyl, being mercenaries, would not do well unless well paid, and for lack of that condition had fallen into disrepute: yet the bravest single effort of the Arab war belonged to that one of them who twice swam down the subterranean water-conduit into Medina, and returned with a full report of the invested town.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Nylan let his eyes drop from the unfinished roof to the dark stone before him that would be a water-conduit section.

Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

Carriages can drive the length of the water-conduit.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

There was a water-conduit in an adjacent field, which was faced with white stone, and hence the name.

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Amphioxus goes like a closed circular water-conduit along the alimentary canal through the whole body, and pulsates in its whole length above and below.

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

Savina has explained that the reason for the water regime is that part of the Rila water-conduit is in a very bad condition.

Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) 2010

About 22 quarters, villages and exurbs of Southern Sofia will be under water-supply restrictions in July and August, due to overhaul of part of the Rila water-conduit.

Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) 2010