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Example sentences for "acequia"

Lexicographically close words:
accustoming; accustoms; ace; acento; acephalous; acerbity; acerca; acero; aces; acetabular
  1. We will move on the town about three o'clock in the morning," said Colonel Milam, and this was done, the first division going down Acequia Street and the second taking to Soledad Street.

  2. They were going down Acequia Street on a dead run, every Texan firing as rapidly as he could reload.

  3. They are watered by an acequia that brings water from Sun River several miles above the post.

  4. Then came the sidewalk, and the acequia (ditch), then a row of young cottonwood trees, then the parade ground.

  5. Felipe bridled him in a moment and then sprang across the acequia with the lariat in his hand.

  6. The acequia round the point had been properly embanked on its lower side, and the stone dislodged by the blasts cleaned out of its channel.

  7. The acequia ran round its base, and the Indians, in order to bring as much of the valley as possible under irrigation, had carried the line of the ditch as high as they could.

  8. And he himself started out towards the acequia to look at the tracks.

  9. I shall walk up the acequia to the rock I am going to blast.

  10. The Americano told me that he was going off to the sierra for a hunt to get meat as soon as he had made the rocks jump out of the acequia for us as he has promised.

  11. The plough-lands lay on a sort of natural terrace, and were all watered by numerous channels and runlets, which had their sources in the great acequia madre, or main ditch.

  12. The trackers on foot had already traced the hoof-marks from the acequia across to the Ensenada trail, and were running half a mile off like hounds in full cry.


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