All 6 Uses of
aqueduct
in
The Railway Children
- Look here, this is where the Aqueduct begins.'†
p. 71.6
- The Romans were dead nuts on aqueducts.†
p. 72.1 *
- And, remember, you aren't to worry about doctor's bills or you'll be ill yourself, and then I'll send you a bill as long as the aqueduct.'†
p. 72.4
- 'It was simply ripping, Mother,' said Peter, when they reached home very happy, very tired, and very dirty, 'right over that glorious aqueduct.†
p. 158.1
- Meanwhile Peter had decided to flatten out all his forts and earthworks, with a view to making a model of the railway-tunnel, cutting, embankment, canal, aqueduct, bridges and all.†
p. 186.4
- 'It's not so dusty,' said Peter: 'look at the aqueduct straddling slap across the valley like a giant centipede, and then the town's church spires sticking up out of the trees like pens out of an inkstand.†
p. 209.6
Definition:
a structure built to carry large amounts of water over a distance