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I was watching the German lines there, and staring at the ruined houses and slag-heaps and broken water-towers of Harnes and Annay, beyond the outer fields of the mining city.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip

Seven engines and a hook-and-ladder and hundreds of hose-carts and one of those water-towers!

From Left End Edwards by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

Well built water-towers about 30 feet high at all stations for watering engines.

From Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail by Ready, Oliver George

The barrows, the water-towers, the buildings—everything is familiar and well-remembered.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance

You'd thought four eights had been rung in and all the water-towers in New York was turned loose on us.

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)