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Example sentences for "procuring water"

  • He had dug wherever he thought there was a chance of procuring water, but without success in any one single instance.

  • This sand had been our constant torment for many weeks past; condemned to live among the sand-hills for the sake of procuring water, we were never free from irritation and inconvenience.

  • So we left these islands, naming the westermost the Island of Disappointment, because we made certain of procuring water here, but could not.

  • The only way we had of procuring water, was by sucking it from the cask with a gun-barrel, used promiscuously by every one.

  • We were again fortunate in procuring water by digging only two feet under the sand-hills, which were here very high, and were a continuation of those in which we had first found water on the 3rd.

  • To her belongs the duty of collecting and preparing the daily food, of making the camp or hut for the night, of gathering and bringing in firewood, and of procuring water.

  • It is equally the same with respect to procuring water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered the young captain; beyond them; but here; down and; found more; good pleasure; had become; labor organization; little noise; must bring; not only; pamphlet form; pretty hard; procuring food; procuring them; procuring water; quit their; room floor; short order; thou wilt; where they; whoever they; wife being; will trust