aqueduct

• It strikes me as odd that a country with water so readily available in lakes and rivers would need an aqueduct, but perhaps the aqueduct is to hint at an early time when Ascalon was more of an empire than a single nation. —  The Unofficial GuildWars Site
• An arch of the aqueduct was imported to the beach with as little regard for congruous setting as Mr. Croesus-in-Ten-Years shows in importing an English lawn to his front yard at Long Branch and a gallery of ancestral portraits to his dining-room on Fifth Avenue The Artist looked at the ruins in silence. —  Riviera Towns
• He built the great aqueduct which is still used in Santa Barbara. —  A Truthful Woman in Southern California
• He avoided wars, only defended the empire; but he was a great builder, for he raised another rampart in Britain, much further north, and set up another column at Rome, and in Gaul built a great amphitheatre at Nismes, and raised the wonderful aqueduct which is still standing, and is called the Pont du Gard His son-in-law, whom he adopted and who succeeded him, is commonly called Marcus Aurelius, as a choice among his many names. —  Young Folks' History of Rome
• He talks about tunnelling the mountains for my aqueduct, as though it were no more trouble than to run a stick through a piece of paper Your aqueduct, indeed!" —  Saracinesca

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