"Artificial lake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boundary wall lie pleasant gardens, gay with all sorts of flowers, and an artificial lake shows its gleaming water here and there through the trees and shrubs. The palace itself is all glittering white stucco on the outside. A high central door leads into a great audience hall, glowing with colour, its roof supported by painted ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt • James Baikie
... Beautifully laid out in lawns and clumps, with a belt of trees at the circumference, and an artificial lake in ...
— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock
... rooms. Late in the afternoon we drove to the tank of Mir Alam, where a brother of Sir Salar Jung was waiting for us in a steam-launch, in which we made little voyages up and down the so-called 'tank,' which was in fact an artificial lake twenty miles in circumference, and covering an area of 10,000 acres. Everybody went into raptures over the scenery, which was not unlike the tamer parts of Loch Duich or Loch Carron, in Scotland, with the addition of an occasional mosque or tomb ...
— The Last Voyage - to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' • Lady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
... their bathing suits and all went through the observatory and down a winding path, bordered with the peculiarly beautiful scarlet and green shrubbery, to the "pool"—an artificial lake covering a hundred acres, its polished metal bottom and sides strikingly decorated with jewels and glittering tiles in tasteful yet contrasting inlaid designs. Any desired depth of water was available and plainly marked, from the fenced-off shallows where the smallest children ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... a quiet piazza, shaded by fruit-trees in blossom, and overlooking a small artificial lake stocked with ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
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