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. |
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. |
Then our bathroom's ageing cistern started to play up, so I made a quick phone call to our reasonable and reliable plumber. |
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. |
An irregularly shaped cistern is meant to receive varying amounts of water during the operation of the machine. |