"Artificial lake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pier to pier, so as to form a pathway; these were withdrawn at night, to prevent the people from passing over to plunder one another. This bridge was, as we have said, formed by withdrawing the water of the Euphrates into the artificial lake; when completed, the river was restored to its ancient channel; the propriety of this mode of proceeding then become apparent, by means of which the citizens obtained the accommodation ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various
... in the Salient lay a little to the (p. 127) west of Bedford House. It was called Swan Chateau, from the fact that a large white swan lived on the artificial lake in the grounds. I never saw the swan myself, but the men said it had been wounded in the wing and had lost an eye. It was long an object of interest to many battalions that at different times were housed in ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott |
