Sentence examples for a large cistern from inspiring English sources

During the rainy season, however, a parallel function kicked in, and the trench was transformed into a large cistern that filled to capacity and submerged the steps sometimes to the surface of the land.

What is more, the house is environmentally conscious, with thick, ventilated and cork-insulated walls, solar panels for heating and hot water, and radiant-heated floors, as well as a large cistern for watering the plants, and outdoor pavers made from recycled steel waste.

Each house I glimpsed out the bus window had a large cistern in the yard.

Water had to be pulled up from a well, whereas today a large cistern saves a few steps.

We have a large cistern within the Odagawa Domain, so I hope to one day build two Aegis ships and keep them anchored there and also build an aircraft carrier.

Benjamin Mazar's excavations of the Ophel, the area adjoining the southern portion of the platform, have unearthed the foundations of a massive structure and a large cistern, both possibly dating to the Hellenistic period.

That's why we built a large underground cistern early on".

Early in his career he made simple vessels, such as tankards and teapots, in an unornamented Queen Anne style, and more pretentious works, such as a large wine cistern for the first Earl of Gower (1719), in an ornamented style associated with the work of French Huguenot craftsmen.

Then he emptied a clump of scorpions from the glass jar into a large clay cistern.

The large cistern beneath the statue is carved out of a single granite block.

L.A.'s Proposition O funded the construction of a 3-million-gallon cistern at Penmar Park in Venice and another large cistern in the Palisades.