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Then our bathroom's ageing cistern started to play up, so I made a quick phone call to our reasonable and reliable plumber.
Did she hide bottles in the garden or the lavatory cistern and take a sneaky pull when she thought no one was looking?
An irregularly shaped cistern is meant to receive varying amounts of water during the operation of the machine.
A wellhead next to the impluvium provided access to the water stored in the cistern.
It is a water-saving device you fit in your toilet cistern so that less water is used for flushing.
Rain flowing from the roof is collected in an underground cistern and reused.
Size the cistern to provide enough water storage for reasonably expected dry periods.
The accident also contaminated the water cistern of the cesspool's owner, who had to purchase water from the Aqueduct Company thereafter.
Behind was a court, which provided light, and a place for a water cistern supplying a communal tap.
Drinking water came from the sink in the toilet, the flush of which was operated by pulling a metal hanger in the cistern.
The oil reservoir, or font, was mounted on top of the cistern, and the flow of oil into it was controlled by a valve.
He fled to his cistern to bring back water, but though the fledgling grasped the cup and strove to drink, he could not force it down.
At 2.45 we see a fibre-glass cistern in the water off Calheta, and under it is a vast shoal of electric-blue dorados.
The cistern has an indefinable white substance dripping down it and the missing tiles were stacked up on the window sill.
He's now exchanged the wrong inner cistern gubbins he got yesterday for the correct ones.
Here the buildings are more substantial, and were supplied by a large water cistern.
Rain gutters feed a cistern hooked to a sprinkler system for watering the fruit orchard and grass.
But the resident must hand pump the water from the cistern to the barrel in advance.
Nothing fancy, just a long drop, probably leading to a cistern that served several other jakes, but it was a luxury here.
The device that caused the scare was later said to have been a ballcock from a bathroom cistern, packed with fireworks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
At Metis the height of the cistern of the standard barometer was determined by a spirit level.
The cistern should not, however, require adjustment to a zero or fiducial point.
To prove she was wrong he went and pried the cistern cover off to look, and fell in.
He forced open some of the packing-cases which were piled near the cistern.
In the peristyle of Pansa's house is still seen, in an intercolumniation, the mouth of a cistern.
At this the two trappers, leaving the party by the fire, betook themselves to the cistern.
On the other side the rock rises sheer and steep, and in it is hollowed out a semi-circular cistern called the demo.
His voice sounds so reverberant because it issues from the gloomy cistern in which he is held a captive.
In the centre of the court stood a cistern or fountain, for drinking and ablutions.
And then she knew the cistern was being cleaned and Jason Squiff was on the job.
The lamp is fed by a cistern of oil at the back of the reflector.
Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.
Then re-mounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more.
She might wash the blankets, or begin quilting, or clean the cistern.
He emptied the cistern, and cleansed it, with plentiful washings.
We know the exact geography even of the larder and the cistern.
There was also a cistern at the end of the portico, next the triclinium.
I try treat people nice, 'n'en they go th'ow my britches down cistern!
Don't you remember that her boiler was to be had out in October, and her bath cistern cleaned out, and all kinds of terrible to-doings?
A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.
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