Crossword-Solution: CISTERNS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| 101 rear ends? | 1 answer |
| Artificial reservoirs | 1 answer |
| Rain collectors | 1 answer |
| Rain water storage tanks. | 1 answer |
| Tanks for rain water | 1 answer |
| Reservoirs | 2 answers |
| Water tanks. | 2 answers |
| Some reservoirs | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CISTERNS (5)
The Approaches to New Orleans.--A Stirring Street.--Sanitary Improvements.--Journalistic Achievements.--Cisterns and Wells.
And so with these granaries, and a series of great tanks and cisterns which held the rainfall, there was no chance of Phorenice reducing our stronghold by mere close investment, even though she sat down stubbornly before it for a score of years.
LVI The town is stored of troughs and cisterns, made To keep fresh water, but the country seems Devoid of grass, unfit for ploughmen’s trade, Not fertile, moist with rivers, wells and streams; There grow few trees to make the summer’s shade, To shield the parched land from scorching beams, Save that a wood stands six miles from the town, With aged cedars dark, and shadows brown.
Most people has their cisterns outside their house, and they is a tin pipe takes all the rain water off the roof and scoots it into them.
The trade-wind freshens, the trees begin to sigh, and all the windmills in Monterey are whirling and creaking and filling their cisterns with the brackish water of the sands.
Quotes with CISTERNS (3)
The best books... The best books of men are soon exhausted--they are cisterns, and not springing fountains. You enjoy them very much at the first acquaintance, and you think you could hear them a hundred times over-but you could not- you soon find them wearisome. Very speedily a man eats too much honey: even children at length are cloyed with sweets. All human books grow stale after a time-but with the Word of God the desire to study it increases, while the more you know of i…
As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, digging cisterns, making roads, fortifying, connecting, and generally making a nation out of our scattered people.
The Israelites in the desert found that hoarded manna rotted. They were permitted no bank accounts and no insurance policies. God is enough. He will be tomorrow who he was today. Later, through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 2:13) God chastises Israel for digging cisterns next to streams of living water, hedging their bets just in case God forgets to be God... or neglects to be good. God is enough. Will he not be tomorrow who he has been today?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2017).