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Artesian well

NOUN
well working by natural pressure
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The moment they hear of John's Artesian well, they look as if they never drank water.

From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

The Artesian well, in many localities, is but the work of a few days or a week.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

One of the important mechanical inventions of modern Europe is the Artesian well.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

Get down to the love of God, and the love of men therefrom, and you have got an Artesian well which will bubble up unfailingly.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

And I knew a manufacturer, too, who went to bore an Artesian well for water, and hired a regular well-borer to do it. 

From Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley




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