hydroscope
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It might be said that he divined the course of seams in the depths of the coal mine as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels of the earth.
From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Verne, Jules
It looks to me through the hydroscope, at this distance, exactly like a tiny, silvery minnow.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
Brown had lugged the pneumatic raft down to the shore where he was now pumping it full: I followed with the paddles, pole, and hydroscope.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
Later I heard him clamping the hood on the hydroscope; but I was too disgusted for any further words, and I dug away at the water with my paddle.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
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