The fire had been let out sometime, and the circulating pipes to cistern 16ft.
And neither does the spirit that is a cistern of beauty fulfil itself, nor remain pure.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.
A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler.
A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
But the cistern had to be emptied, and the proprietor would not permit it as he needed the water for his lemon trees.
Two little boys frequently came to play on the edge of this cistern while their tutor lay under a tree reading a book.
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THE BALL-COCK is used to feed a cistern automatically with water, and prevent the water rising too far in the cistern (Fig.
Water enters the cisternthrough a valve, which is opened and closed by a plug faced with rubber.
And David longed, and said: O that some man would give me water of the cistern of Bethlehem, which is in the gate.
Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and brought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
In the light of the cistern episode and the knowledge that Markham seemed afraid to meet certain people, he believed that the advent of his present visitor boded no good for his friend and helper.
Then, his eyes fixed steadfastly upon the street, Markham deliberately jumped down into the cisternout of sight.
About four o'clock both started in at the cistern at the side of the house.
He acted subdued and worried until the cistern was finished.
It exists on the cistern of my father's house at Corinth, and was executed many centuries since by a great artist of the Peloponnesus.
Then she has to draw water from a cistern called the Well of the Sun.
The girls must get up so early, that as soon as dawn breaks water from this cistern shall not be lacking at the altar of Serapis.
But one thing must be considered; how are we to get the cistern from your father's house at Corinth to this place by to-morrow or next day?
But the climbing perch has a kind of cistern in its head, just above the gill-chambers, which contains quite a quantity of water.
There is hardly any water in town, no prospect of rain, and the soldiers have emptied one cistern in the yard already and begun on the other.
One cistern I had to give up to the soldiers, who swarm about like hungry animals seeking something to devour.
I remember nothing except that the cold drinking-water taken from a cistern beneath the building, into which only the winter rains were allowed to fall, was like an elixir.
Either one of these powerful arguments was sufficient to silence me, of course; so I took the pail, and sought well and cistern myself.
The honest daughter of toil was absent for many moments, and when she returned, it was to report, with some excitement, that there was neither well nor cistern on the premises.
The orifice is fixed in the wall of the cistern A and discharges either into the waste channel BB, or into the measuring tank.
The supply pipe s may be fitted with a flap valve for stopping the ram, and this is attached in some cases to a float, so that the ram starts and stops itself automatically, according as the supply cistern fills or empties.
The cisterns being filled very nearly to the same level, the jet from the left-hand cistern A entered the right-hand cistern B (fig.
They were enclosed in a cistern of water between parallel top and bottom fixed surfaces.
The length of chain is adjusted so that the upper float opens the flap when the level in the cistern is at the desired height.
The water which is pumped passes through this valve into the air vessel a, from which it flows by the delivery pipe in a regular stream into the cistern to which the water is to be raised.
The friction of the disk is equal to the tendency of the cistern to rotate, and this was measured by balancing the cistern by a fine silk cord passing over a pulley and carrying a scale pan in which weights could be placed.
A magnificent silvercistern is still preserved in the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter.
No overflow-pipe from any cistern or tank, except the one used for flushing water-closets, should be connected with the soil-pipe or sewer.
Each room likewise contains a washstand, with faucets for hot and cold water, the latter supplied from a cistern on the roof, the former from the office heater.
This cistern was supplied from the sky; for the whole space or court in which it lay was open and unroofed.
The cisternwas railed by a circular wooden balustrade, against which some creeping plants grew.
Luckily we found a cistern not far off, and near it some trees, beneath which we made a bed of cloaks for our sick friend.
The cistern and bath of Cleopatra were both under water.
This cistern is no longer filled with water, but serves as a workshop for silk- spinners.
The cistern was in the shadow and everyone was watching the fire so intently that he was able to emerge unseen.
She was in the cistern--the old unused cistern which was not a great distance from the house.
After starting the blaze he had again sought refuge in the cistern and when the crowd had gathered, came out in their midst so that his absence from such an exciting event in the neighborhood would cause no comment among the farmers.
As she emerged from the cistern she saw Migwan standing in the garden beside the back porch.
By the faint glimmer of the stars she could make out that there were hollows in the stone side of the cistern by which a person could easily climb out.
Men were doing a cistern in the downstairs lavatory, and kept passing and re-passing with dirty boots as fast as I cleaned.
A very good arrangement, but we happened to be at the cistern end of the room.
Anyone who knows how a cistern behaves can imagine the peculiar noises that issued.
This proximity to the cistern was, however, an accident carefully avoided the second night, but several poor unfortunates would always have to suffer it.
This cistern was within a few feet of the cypress-tree, and accounted for its superior growth, as the roots had been duly nourished.
Some tolerable elms and other trees formed a dense shade in a deep and narrow portion of the glen beneath the over-hanging cliffs, and a beautiful spring of water issued from the rock, received in a stone cistern beneath.
And I did notice some little pipes sticking out of the sides of that cistern box," Nancy now remembered.
I have that nice, perfectly dry cistern actually furnished, even a rug on the floor!
Really girls," Sibyl went on, "Dad has that cisternfurnished like a room.
I was going to look down that cistern first chance I got," Nancy confessed.
It had caught on a sharp stone close to the top of the cistern and with an effort he drew himself to the flooring above.
In a quarter of an hour he knew he was a prisoner in a circular cisternperhaps twelve feet in diameter and of uncertain depth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cistern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: basin; cistern; dam; dike; fishpond; lagoon; plash; pond; pool; puddle; reservoir; sump; tank; tub; well
