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About the water-run are dwarf enclosures, and even water-melons were sown; unhappily the torrent came down and carried all away.
The Land of Midian 2003
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She did not fidget or sigh or glance often at the water-run timing device in the cor - ner.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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She did not fidget or sigh or glance often at the water-run timing device in the cor - ner.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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The gold settles on the bed-rock, and is collected later, when the water-run has subsided.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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About the water-run are dwarf enclosures, and even water-melons were sown; unhappily the torrent came down and carried all away.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Since the next breakthrough in privy technology did not occur for a few centuries, many toilet historians have made the mistake of claiming that Harington’s ajax never caught on and that no one had a water-run privy for two hundred years, but that wasn’t true, as there are references to ajax-like privies in both England and Europe after the publication of Harington’s pamphlet.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Since the next breakthrough in privy technology did not occur for a few centuries, many toilet historians have made the mistake of claiming that Harington’s ajax never caught on and that no one had a water-run privy for two hundred years, but that wasn’t true, as there are references to ajax-like privies in both England and Europe after the publication of Harington’s pamphlet.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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