"Drinking water" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... how a woman, drinking water from a jar at night, swallowed a snake unawares, which grew within her, till she was brought to the blessed Simeon, who commanded some of the water of the monastery to be given her; on which the serpent crawled ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley
... fewest symptoms, and is rather an object of disgust than of grave importance, at least in this country, where it seldom happens that more than two or three are present. In other countries, as some parts of Italy, for instance, where the drinking water is bad and stagnant, they are sometimes found in great numbers, as thirty or forty, and it is then not easy to determine whether the symptoms which accompany them are produced by the worms, or by the unwholesome character of the water ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... pollution, and lately from being made the receptacle for minor but objectionable refuse. It has certainly prevented the Upper Thames being made into a sewer, and also stopped pollution by paper mills and factories. London's need of pure drinking water has given immense assistance to the forces which were working to keep our rivers clean. All the tributaries of the Thames are now under surveillance, and no village or little country town may use them to pour sewage into. Country villagers may ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish
... but 'my lord'!" Then he ran on before the horse, with his sword hanging from his neck and his budget between his shoulder blades, and Kanmakan rode a little behind him; and they plunged into the desert, for a space of four days, eating of the gazelles and drinking water of the springs. On the fifth day they drew near a high hill, at whose foot was a spring-encampment[FN96] and a deep running stream; and the knolls and hollows were filled with camels and cattle and sheep and horses, and little children played ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... such a lovely spring," I told my father. "Couldn't we get our bathing and drinking water from there?" ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
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