“Water would descend through bronze clouds onto the figure of a drum-beating and dancing wizard and then drain into the trough below.”

“The skin behind his ears still chill from the cold water he'd splashed on his face at the roof trough.”

“The statue, with outspread wings and hands raised benevolently, was on a trough where horses drank before pulling their heavy loads up the hill.”

“There are great steaming bowls of gnocchi, troughs of ravioli, vast vats of fettuccine just how mama makes it.”

“Even today, across many remote areas of the United States, wind-powered pumps draw water from wells to fill livestock watering troughs.”

“Other animals, such as waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, and baboons, drank from the same troughs.”