In time, the gigantic waterways greatly multiplied, and, by the reign of Nero, there were constructed nine principal aqueducts, the pipes of which were of bricks, baked tiles, stone, lead, or wood.

According to the calculation of Vigenerus, half a million hogsheads of water were conveyed into Rome every day, by upwards of 10,000 small pipes not one-third of an inch in diameter.

The water which was not drinkable ran out, by means of large pipes, into extensive inclosures, where it served to water cattle.

A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat Auld Nick, in shape o' beast; A towsie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screwed the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

The smoking of pipes was common, and thoughtless profanity was to be heard on all sides as an ordinary part of speech.

Sam found an ample supply of tobacco and pipes, and the four of us passed the early evening undisturbed smoking and talking together.

I am a doctor, a prescriber of pills, a mender of bones, a plumber of pipes ...

" "I don't care anything about your locker beer, Lina Rosenberg, nor your whiskey and tobacco pipes, either.

We were sitting on the verandah after supper, and were well into our second pipes.

They confine themselves to requisitioning the gasmen's keys, and the lamplighters' winches in order to open the pipes.

But they were Neroes men, like Nero arm'd With Lutes and Harps and Pipes and Fiddle-cases, Souldyers to th'shadow traynd and not the field.

In the last of this series, the Governor received them with the wonted solemn civility of the Turks, and entertained them with pipes and coffee.

On their entrance, the officer gave them pipes and coffee, and after they had dined in their own apartment, he invited them to spend the evening with him, and they condescended to partake of his hospitality.

The piper M'Crimmon, of the Hebrides, shouldered his pipes, and marched into a sea cavern, playing loudly, and followed by his dog.

For a long time the people could hear the pipes.

He told me a few months before his death that "they" would not let him sleep at night with crying things at him in Irish, and with playing their pipes.

He had asked a friend of his what he should do, and the friend had told him to buy a flute, and play on it when they began to shout or to play on their pipes, and maybe they would give up annoying him; and he did, and they always went out into the field when he began to play.

He showed me the pipe, and blew through it, and made a noise, but he did not know how to play; and then he showed me where he had pulled his chimney down, because one of them used to sit up on it and play on the pipes.

It was not until we had finished our meal and were sitting outside enjoying our pipes that I broached the question that was at the back of my mind.

TOBACCO, apparelled in a taffeta mantle, his arms brown and naked, buskins made of the peeling of osiers, his neck bare, hung with Indian leaves, his face brown, painted with blue stripes, in his nose swines' teeth, on his head a painted wicker crown with tobacco-pipes set in it, plumes of tobacco leaves, led by two Indian boys naked, with tapers in their hands, tobacco-boxes, and pipes lighted. PHA.

TOBACCO, apparelled in a taffeta mantle, his arms brown and naked, buskins made of the peeling of osiers, his neck bare, hung with Indian leaves, his face brown, painted with blue stripes, in his nose swines' teeth, on his head a painted wicker crown with tobacco-pipes set in it, plumes of tobacco leaves, led by two Indian boys naked, with tapers in their hands, tobacco-boxes, and pipes lighted. PHA.

You had better keep him alive to light tobacco-pipes, or to sweep chimneys. TAC.

We had to be careful, though, not to drop matches about, and to put out our pipes before going to sleep.

On a black-walnut shelf between the windows lay a choice collection of meerschaum and brier-wood pipes.

And dying, Deserted and alone, far off he hears His comrades going, with their pipes in time, Joyfully measuring their homeward steps.