Sentence examples for in a cistern from inspiring English sources

The isolation put me in a cistern, dark and deep.

In a cistern or pond, a few fish yielded dietary protein.

John the Baptist is imprisoned not in a cistern but in a desert mine shaft; he is brought up in a rickety cage.

Then the game she plays to keep herself amused — seducing the religious fanatic that Daddy/Uncle has trapped in a cistern — becomes an uncontrollable obsession.

But who wants to see "Guys and Dolls," one of the most joyous of golden-age Broadway shows, performed in a cistern?

They stay in dammusi, Arab-inspired houses with rock walls two feet thick and domed roofs designed to capture the rare rain in a cistern.

In Field of Prey Davenport is called in on a case in Goodhue County, A cistern hidden in a field has been discovered that contains a large number of decomposed bodies.

Although the torrent did not shatter the glass, its power was enough to force the front door shut and transform the home into a cistern in just 15 minutes.

The prey is attracted to the large showy leaves by nectar, and it slips from a treacherous lip into the pitcherlike hollow leaf, which in reality is a cistern of digestive liquid from which there is no escape.

Unlike the well of living waters that Isaac finds in Wadi Gerar, a cistern does not regenerate naturally: It merely holds what is put into it.

While the excavation is ongoing, so far, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have unearthed rare finds, including a stone cup covered in encoded script, a cistern and even an elaborate bathtub.