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an engineered conduit to transport large amounts of water- a 2000-year-old Roman aqueduct
- The Owens Valley aqueduct carries water from the Sierras to Los Angeles.
- We drove north on Highway 280 beside the aqueduct,Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
- This aqueduct of the sewer is formidable; it interlaces in a dizzy fashion.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- He walked out of the station and up the street through the high portales of the old stone aqueduct and down into the town.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- The only towns which have had uninterrupted power were those served by hydroelectric plants, provided the plants were undamaged and the aqueducts intact.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- The tunnel inclined steeply as it left the Castle St. Angelo, proceeding upward into the underside of a stone bastion that looked like a Roman aqueduct.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Human blood, in order to keep its freshness, should run in hidden streams, as the water of an aqueduct is conveyed in subterranean pipes.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- The good water came over the arches of the great brick aqueduct the Braavosi called the sweetwater river.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Together they raced over the hills, past Roman aqueducts, highways, and vineyards.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- The desert had advanced in three centuries; the aqueducts from the mountains have fallen and shattered; the city itself is only bones.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- The first exit is via the Georgetown Aqueduct, a mile and a half northwest of the White House.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- Finally a big park opened up on our left: misty green fields, tree-lined paths, and a few ruined walls like aqueducts, covered in vines.Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
- The Romans were dead nuts on aqueducts.Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
- What could you do against a dozen bandits who spring out of some pit, ruin, or aqueduct, and level their pieces at you?Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- A toddler gnome poked his head out of an aqueduct only a few feet from the hut.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- He was on a straightaway parallel to a ruined aqueduct.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- The city's aqueduct collapsed like a line of children's blocks.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- At New York's Aqueduct Racecourse late in 1934, Hard Tack's first two yearlings stepped off a railcar into Fitzsimmons's care.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- Think of it as a leaky aqueduct leading to a water wheel.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
aqueduct = an engineered conduit to transport large amounts of water
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