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  • It was not only the echo, the duplication of a past sensation that the water-conduit had caused me to experience, it was the sensation itself.

    Time Regained 2003

  • If, after years I rediscovered the simplest social relationship or even a material object in my memory, I perceived that life had been ceaselessly weaving threads about it which in the end became a beautiful velvet covering like the emerald sheath of a water-conduit in an ancient park.

    Time Regained 2003

  • The Ageyl, being mercenaries, would not do well unless well paid, and for lack of that condition had fallen into disrepute: yet the bravest single effort of the Arab war belonged to that one of them who twice swam down the subterranean water-conduit into Medina, and returned with a full report of the invested town.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Nylan let his eyes drop from the unfinished roof to the dark stone before him that would be a water-conduit section.

    Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

  • Carriages can drive the length of the water-conduit.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • There was a water-conduit in an adjacent field, which was faced with white stone, and hence the name.

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • Amphioxus goes like a closed circular water-conduit along the alimentary canal through the whole body, and pulsates in its whole length above and below.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • In our own day, after having excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Savina has explained that the reason for the water regime is that part of the Rila water-conduit is in a very bad condition.

    Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) 2010

  • About 22 quarters, villages and exurbs of Southern Sofia will be under water-supply restrictions in July and August, due to overhaul of part of the Rila water-conduit.

    Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) 2010

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