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It was close to a cistern which had become leaky.
The tube is filled with mercury at its open end, and then inverted over the cistern, and the mercury descends until the weight of the portion standing above the level of the mercury in the cistern just balances the pressure of the air on an area equal to the cross section of the tube.
In the cellar there is a deep cistern or well partially filled up.
Because he closed my carriage door outside sir Thornley Stoker's one sleety day during the cold snap of February ninetythree when even the grid of the wastepipe and the ballstop in my bath cistern were frozen.
When it was finished, the queen was so delighted, that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put into a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial, where I could not manage my two sculls, or little oars, for want of room.
" I knew he meant well in paying me this compliment, so I laughed at myself for blushing at it when he had shut the door and got upon the box; and we all three laughed and chatted about our inexperience and the strangeness of London until we turned up under an archway to our destination-a narrow street of high houses like an oblong cistern to hold the fog.
The cistern measures 140 metres (460 feet) by 70 metres (230 feet), its vaulted brick roof is supported by a forest of columns topped by Corinthian capitals, 336 in all, set in 12 rows of 28.
Here you can see part of a large Arab water cistern and other local finds.
The cistern hall contains a circular cistern still full of water, which is now inhabited by a population of turtles.
Hidden beneath trapdoors on either side of the aisle are a Moorish cistern 15 m (50 ft) deep and a collection of monks’ bones in the ossuary.
With half the expense usually devoted to a sideboard or sofa, the water used from a well or cistern can be so conducted, as that, by simply turning a cock, it will flow to the place where it is to be used.
It is designed for a well or cistern under ground.
In case a cistern is built above ground, it can be placed as the reservoir is, and then all the labor of pumping is saved.
[Page 141] SHED FILLED WITH WINGS OF SLAUGHTERED BIRDS ON LAYSAN ISLAND "An old cistern back of one of the buildings tells a story of cruelty that surpasses anything else done by these heartless, sanguinary pirates, not excepting the practice of cutting wings from living birds and leaving them to die of hemorrhage.
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