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  • But Sakiyah is also applied, as here, to the water-channel which turns the wheel.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Typhoons are not known so far north as Yezo, but it was what they call a “typhoon rain” without the typhoon, and in no time it turned the streams into torrents barely fordable, and tore up such of a road as there is, which at its best is a mere water-channel.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Maintenance of a small unlined water-channel in such circumstances can be very difficult.

    Chapter 13 1995

  • He bestirred himself to search the dark, and, feeling around him, discovered a slimed wet water-channel, carrying water that smelled and tasted clean.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • He could move; he had his cloak to wrap in against the chill; and when time passed and nothing threatened the silence or his solitude he crept back to the water-channel and washed at his leisure, although he was sore down to his fingertips and the cold and the effort hurt.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • He could move; he had his cloak to wrap in against the chill; and when time passed and nothing threatened the silence or his solitude he crept back to the water-channel and washed at his leisure, although he was sore down to his fingertips and the cold and the effort hurt.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • The strongest point of a tower is one direction to come up on, because they may not have guards there; and the water-channel or the drains are easier to get at than windows.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • He bestirred himself to search the dark, and, feeling around him, discovered a slimed wet water-channel, carrying water that smelled and tasted clean.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • The strongest point of a tower is one direction to come up on, because they may not have guards there; and the water-channel or the drains are easier to get at than windows.

    The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

  • The main bed of the water-channel was all black, and above this was a coat of white over the blackened stones, and as the remaining pools were all white, I suppose that some white tributary continues flowing later than the black stream.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

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