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  • Broad streets, well graded, were made, with sewers and water-pipes ready laid, and macadamized from his own quarries.

    Chapter XVII 2010

  • This street and several others were at this period impassable for carriages, the roadways being tunnelled, and heaped, and barricaded; which curious and highly disagreeable state of things was stated to arise from the laying down of water-pipes.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • I had removed the only means of reaching the window, and, as none of the other windows had any adjacent water-pipes, to tempt the climbing powers of the monsters, I began to feel more confident of escaping their clutches.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • In recent days, the sit-in has taken on a carnival atmosphere with vendors hawking cheese sandwiches and flags alongside groups of men smoking water-pipes.

    ‘Ghosts of the Past’ 2007

  • One day last spring, I was with my son at the mall, and I saw one of those "water-pipes" on sale, and I was captivated by it.

    10/30/2005 - 11/06/2005 2005

  • But my son's friend also informed me that even if you don't have one of those "water-pipes," you can just use an empty soda can!

    Drugs are Bad, M'Kay thehim 2005

  • One day last spring, I was with my son at the mall, and I saw one of those "water-pipes" on sale, and I was captivated by it.

    Archive 2005-10-30 2005

  • One day last spring, I was with my son at the mall, and I saw one of those "water-pipes" on sale, and I was captivated by it.

    Drugs are Bad, M'Kay thehim 2005

  • But my son's friend also informed me that even if you don't have one of those "water-pipes," you can just use an empty soda can!

    Archive 2005-10-30 2005

  • But my son's friend also informed me that even if you don't have one of those "water-pipes," you can just use an empty soda can!

    10/30/2005 - 11/06/2005 2005

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