water-works

In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart."

Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart."

Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

Let's back up and take a look at our economic water-works.

Stan Sorscher: Priming a Broken Pump Stan Sorscher 2010

"You say this filter's got to be replaced," he told his chief of the water-works.

Chapter XX 2010

Let's back up and take a look at our economic water-works.

Stan Sorscher: Priming a Broken Pump Stan Sorscher 2010

They're not provincial, like a Rotarian who wants to tell you about the water-works.

Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

She started the water-works, boo hooing and yapping and putting on quite a show, but that type of behaviour doesn't impress me.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

And whenever his big sister feels like torturing the little guy, she just mentions junk food and slyly sits back to watch the water-works.

Liane Weintraub: Freedom from Junk 2009

Hall, one of the finest music-halls in the world; the water-works, the Athenaeum, and the libraries, are all worthy of a visit.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

You'd have thought that basic lo-tech infrastructure like water-works would be something the locals might have a grip on.

One Canadian trying to make a difference in Afstan 2007