Cleaving to the cistern is leaving the fountain, and is resented accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Each year there seems to be less and less water sent into my cistern from the city. From Wordnik.com. [Oaxaca Language Schools] Reference
In the middle of the cistern is a set of spiral stairs. From Wordnik.com. [body on the line] Reference
The anteroom of the cistern was a world of watery chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference
A cistern is a receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. From Wordnik.com. [Cistern Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models] Reference
One by one we entered the cistern, which is now in an inner room. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
These are called cistern wells and water from them should not be used for drinking. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
Groundwork included the installation of a giant cistern, which is buried beneath the warning track. From Wordnik.com. [GreenBiz.com Green Business News] Reference
Dupin pumps the groundwater into a plastic cistern, which is perched in the rafters like a barn owl. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference
The cistern is the great Reservoir of the Universe which contains the pure and perfect Spirit of all life. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning] Reference
The supply of water for all purposes is from a filtering cistern, which is connected with the kitchen sink, by a pump. From Wordnik.com. [Woodward's Country Homes] Reference
At the top of the interior of the cistern is a small piece of ivory, the point of which coincides with the zero of the scale. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Fiskíyyah ( "cistern"), measuring five metres each way. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
This is an ancient Roman water cistern which is under the streets of Istanbul. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The water is then run off into another cistern which is round, having another small cistern in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08] Reference
Canvas cistern and stand-cock used with fire plug 156. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Everybody has an interest in getting this cistern cleaned up. From Wordnik.com. [R. Eden Martin: Incredible that it's business -- and politics -- as usual] Reference
A siphon barometer takes less mercury than a cistern barometer. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Stewart built the walls of the cistern and the first story of the chimneys. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Eager to heed the Bible's directive to "drink waters from thine own cistern"?. From Wordnik.com. [Gee Whiz] Reference
The water of life cannot be taken from a cistern; it must be drunk at the spring. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
"Let us throw our youngest brother into the cistern, for we cannot take him with us.". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
A man lies back awkwardly on the toilet, head wedged between the cistern and the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Bedpost] Reference
Compare, as to hardness, the water from a concrete cistern with that from a wooden one. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The small hog was then turned into the cistern, announcing his presence by sundry squeals. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Within the fort is also a large cement-lined, stone cistern to hold water in case of siege. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in the Orient] Reference
They came to a beautiful plain, where they found a fine cistern, and ate their lunch near it. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Doctor Jim's windmill was keeping the big cistern on stilts filled from his deep artesian well. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
When she appeared the two brothers took her, and left Salvatore in the cistern, and returned to the palace. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Our three artists mounted up the rocks overhanging the cistern, and looked down on the heads of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The plans for the house included a cistern for the collection of rain water in the cellar under the laundry. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
The cistern is made of No. 1 canvas, 15 inches deep, extended at top and bottom by 5/8-inch round iron frames. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
And David longed, and said: O that some man would give me water of the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
Then he said to his brother: "Salvatore, would you like to descend into this cistern, for there is a treasure in it?". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
It occupies three sides of a parallelogram, has a handsome chapel, and a great cistern vaulted with concentric circles. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
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