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potable
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  • Or you could demand commodities: non-potable water, steel of defined grade, heavy water of power plant specs, other things.†   (source)
  • "Conservative" is the word I've always associated with conserving our environment from pollution, ensuring that our water is potable and our grass green.†   (source)
  • I am living proof that the waters of Loveless Lake are potable because I swallowed half the lake every summer while waterskiing with my cousins.†   (source)
  • STILLTENT: small, scalable enclosure of micro-sandwich fabric designed to reclaim as potable water the ambient moisture discharged within it by the breath of its occupants.†   (source)
  • Now the United States was leading a concerted effort to block aid to Haiti's government—not just American aid but also grants and loans from other sources, including loans from an international agency that would have financed an increase in the supplies of potable water and improvements in roads, education, and the public health system.†   (source)
  • And to facilitate such, may I ask if this hostel stocks potables?†   (source)
  • Almost deliberately she ruined her taste for the better sort of potable liquors, concealing from herself, under the convenient labellings of physic, the ugly crawling hunger in her blood.†   (source)
  • What wonder then if fields and regions here
    Breathe forth Elixir pure, and rivers run
    Potable gold, when with one virtuous touch
    The arch-chemick sun, so far from us remote,
    Produces, with terrestrial humour mixed,
    Here in the dark so many precious things
    Of colour glorious, and effect so rare?†   (source)
  • Coming to look on you, thinking you dead, And dead almost, my liege, to think you were, I spake unto this crown as having sense, And thus upbraided it: "The care on thee depending Hath fed upon the body of my father; Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold: Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, Preserving life in medicine potable; But thou, most fine, most honour'd, most renown'd, Hast eat thy bearer up."†   (source)
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