Wells

Examples

• Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These wells are now made with larger diameters than formerly, and altogether their construction has been rendered much more easy in modern times. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about; 'T is easy dropping stones in wells, But who shall get them out? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Of all wells, from one fathom to six or seven, the water flew out at the top with a vehement motion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wells' little essay: Skepticism of the Instrument. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some of the water gradually took the form of rivers, lakes, streams, and wells, as now, and it is this original supply of water which furnishes us all that we have to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The petroleum wells of America are of the same technical description. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This very morning the two set out for Wormwood Wells [a noted watering-place], and will stay there some weeks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Wells has been savage and often unfair about the Fabian Society, but in The New Machiavelli he touched, I believe, the real disillusionment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Wells takes his stand very definitely with those who regard classification as serviceable for the practical purposes of life but nevertheless a departure from the objective truth of things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thus many artesian wells have been sunk in the Algerian Sahara which have proved an immense boon to the district. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Wells has, of course, made no new discovery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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