cisterne

And in that chirche is a welle, in manere of a cisterne, that is clept Probatica Piscina, that hathe 5 entrees.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And in that chirche is a welle, in manere of a cisterne, that is clept _Probatica Piscina_, that hathe

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And in that chirche is a welle, in manere of a cisterne, that is clept _Probatica

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

"Histrio-Mastix_" -- says "It seems that the Grecian actors did now and then to refresh the spectators, bring a kind of cisterne on the stage, wherein naked women did swim and bathe themselves between the acts and scenes; which wicked, impudent, and execrable practice the holy father

A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

Likewise by the sayd cisterne there is drinke conueyed thorow certeine pipes and conducts, such as vseth to be drunke in the emperors court, vpon the which also there hang many vessels of golde, wherein, whosoeuer will may drinke of the sayd licour.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

And there besyde is the vale of Dotaym: and there is the cisterne, where Josephe was cast in of his bretheren, which thei solden; and that is a 2 myle fro Sychar.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

In the midst of the palace standes a cisterne of two yards high, which consisteth of a precious stone called Merdochas, and is wreathed about with golde, and at ech corner thereof is the golden image of a serpent, as it were, furiously shaking and casting forth his head.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

This cisterne also hath a kind of networke of pearle wrought about it.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

And there besyde is the vale of Dotaym: and there is the cisterne, where Josephe was cast in of his bretheren, which thei solden; and that is a 2 myle fro Sychar.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

This Iland hath no kind of fresh water, but onely in the middle of the Iland groweth a great tree with leaues like an Oliue tree which hath a great cisterne at the foot of the sayd tree.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003