cistern
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She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Further samples in the coming months will determine if the cistern dates back to the same period as the roundhouses.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
Near the village of Jaun, a construction crew was laying pipes to deliver electricity and water from a new cistern to six local farms.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
Boys navigate the terrain on donkeys — water is drawn from a cistern, and grain is stored in a cave, where women and girls light cooking fires and talk about makeup and strangers who visit.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
I hooked my foot around the ladder rung and leaned deep into the cistern, quenching the shingle in the water.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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