water bearer
Example Sentences
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One, appropriately playing the part of the hammam's traditional water bearer, took a spill on the slick catwalk.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2010
Aquarius, the water bearer, has gone to the well once more.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the water bearer arrived, at the end of his rounds, to fill Bibi's urn in the storage room, we instructed her to say “How do you do?”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
She is weaver, potter, basketmaker, cook, agriculturist, water bearer, beast of burden, everything.
From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby
