Artesian well

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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

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 Kingsley, Charles

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 Maclaren, Alexander

Yet it is remarkable that the boring of an Artesian well at Fort William, near Calcutta, in the years 1835-1840, displayed, at the depth of 120 feet, clay and sand with pebbles.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

What power had drawn up the rosy fluid from the Artesian well of her heart?

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee