Water-carriers Sentence Examples

water-carriers

  • This pride in their land, race and history they preserve even when, as often happens, they emigrate to other parts of the country or to South America, and earn their living as servants, water-carriers, or, in the case of the women, as nurses.

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  • From these fountains the water is taken to a house by water-carriers, or, in the case of the humbler classes, by members of the household itself.

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  • They would have to collect the water they need in buckets or water carriers from a temporary standpipe in the street.

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