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  • Mortimer came in early, saying he had found only one of the bullocks, that the others had gone back to the last wateringplace twenty-two miles distant.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Her chief mental interest at the wateringplace consisted in watching and making theories about the people she did not know.

    Chapter XXX. Part II 1917

  • In February he had received a letter from Marya Nikolaevna telling him that his brother Nikolay’s health was getting worse, but that he would not take advice, and in consequence of this letter Levin went to Moscow to his brother’s, and succeeded in persuading him to see a doctor and to go to a wateringplace abroad.

    Chapter XII. Part II 1917

  • Bidford is built very like a wateringplace -- that is to say, it is all on one side of the river.

    The Slowcoach 1903

  • My own idea on reading over these instructions was, that no such residence as I saw described could be found at any wateringplace in England, and that, even if it could by chance be discovered, it would certainly not be parted with for any period on such terms as I was permitted to offer.

    The Woman in White 1860

  • Have we been following a path only leading to a wateringplace, then?

    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

  • -- Mortimer came in early, saying he had found only one of the bullocks, that the others had gone back to the last wateringplace twenty-two miles distant.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823

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