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  • At the east end is the Makhzan el-Máyah, or “smaller reservoir,” an oblong of 7.80 by 6.60 metres: the waggon-tilt roof has disappeared, and the fissures show brick within the ashlar.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • All of 'em would have gone through one waggon-tilt.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The Englishman, hidden with his sorrow under the canvas waggon-tilt, roused himself at the accelerated motion.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • "But yes, John -- you forget," said a woman inside the waggon-tilt.

    The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Next morning early, with the skin secure on the waggon-tilt, the sleek oxen were once more in-spanned, and the waggon rolled merrily on towards the falls of the Zambesi.

    Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

  • But the country was grand, and the weather exceptionally lovely, as they made their way southward, crossing the Limpopo without accident, in spite of the crocodiles, Dinny managing to get a place on the top of the waggon-tilt just before they started to ford the stream.

    Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

  • When the skin was taken off and spread upon the waggon-tilt to dry,

    Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

  • All this the boy proceeded to do, and by the time he had changed he felt none the worse for his involuntary bath, and hung his wrung-out garments on the scorching waggon-tilt to dry.

    First in the Field A Story of New South Wales George Manville Fenn 1870

  • At the east end is the Makhzan el-Máyah, or "smaller reservoir," an oblong of 7.80 by 6.60 metres: the waggon-tilt roof has disappeared, and the fissures show brick within the ashlar.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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