gracht

The patterns alternate with etchings of slaves carrying water in buckets, beautiful open canals and an old gracht with an arched brick ceiling like those under the city of Amsterdam, stone lined irrigation channels colloquially known as "lei-water slote" at the edges of cropland.

Valerie Tarico: Capetown: God Is Water 2010

And on the way back home for supper, she imagined him arriving at his lovely home on the gracht;

A Girl Named Rose Neels, Betty 1986

And so he was Christina was shown the patrician houses bordering the Singel, the narrowest house in Amsterdam, the noble mansions on the Keizers Gracht and the Heren Gracht, the narrow waterways leading from one gracht to the next.

Not Once But Twice Neels, Betty 1981

Amsterdam, its merchants, scientists, and artists, leave their beautiful homes on Heeren-and Keizers-gracht, with their wives and daughters wrapped in costly garments, glittering in profusion of diamonds and rubies and pearls, and drive to the huge palace to offer homage to their

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

Mats have been banged on its doorsteps by clean Dutch maidservants armed with wicker beaters; milk has been brought in huge cans of brass and copper shining like the sun; but of its life proper the gracht has given no sign.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

"Jorje," which looks like "George" spelt phonetically, but is pronounced so very differently, can easily be mastered, and that real teaser "gracht," the Dutch for "canal," with a strong guttural at either end of it, eomes easily out of a Scottish throat.

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

In 1798 they lived on the Linde gracht, but shifted afterwards their dwelling-place to the Boomstraat.

Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Call them and they will pick you up in a canal, or a gracht or somerwhere else, where a boat can stop to pick YOU

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