water-tanks

Griffiths lay at Savo last night, taking on pigs and yams and filling his water-tanks.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

We went up to the citadel, which crowns the hill, and is composed of an agglomeration of granite walls, fosses, and casemates, mounds, ditches, barracks, and water-tanks.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Across the belt of railroad-tracks, factories with high-perched water-tanks and tall stacks-factories producing condensed milk, paper boxes, lighting-fixtures, motor cars.

Babbit 2004

“Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The instruments suspended under the awning clattered together as though they would be dashed to pieces; the pipes of the spiral bent to and fro, threatening to break at every instant; and the water-tanks jostled and jarred with tremendous din.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Forward of the galley is the main hatch, and two large water-tanks are fitted here, one on each side.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Besides a sufficient stock of pure brandy, he arranged two water-tanks, each of which contained twenty-two gallons.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

We cleared up, filled our water-tanks with snow, and made the ship ready for sea.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Here, as a rule, one encounters violent rain-squalls; to sailing ships in general and ourselves in particular this heavy rain is welcome, as water-tanks can be filled up.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Both people who used water from the river and water-tanks were affected and the stools did not resemble the "rice water" stools of cholera, she said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002