water-place

We passed a water-place two hours after we left Naïda, though Talib had made us stop there because, he said, there was no water within a day's journey, and we found ourselves stopped at Rahba, two hours at least before Ghaida, where we expected to be, Talib still sticking to it that we should be at Sheher in three more days.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

I think there really was a better water-place near, but we did not find it.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

A good birdhouse, grain sprinkled about in early spring, a water-place, are invitations for birds to stay

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

By leaning over the edge of the wooden box that was built around the water-place, Bunny and Sue could see the rubber doll splashing up and down in the water far below them.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus Laura Lee Hope

Indeed, though there was no proper or regular water-place, the classical Fountain of Arethusa, that celebrated daughter of Oceanus, and nymph of the Goddess of Chastity, supplied them copiously with her pure and traditionally propitious libations; and the hero, it has been seen, did not fail to anticipate, with becoming gratulations, his sense of their indisputable efficacy.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Ainnit, in Erse; and it proved to be a water-place, or a place near water, 'which,' said Mr. M'Queen, 'agrees with all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess, which were situated near rivers, that there might be water to wash the statue.'

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

We were now, however, thirty-nine or forty miles from the water-place, and two more from the Cob.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

I wandered about, but found no other water-place; and then, thinking of the days that were long enough ago, I sat in the shade of an umbrageous acacia bush.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

I yearn for you at every hour and tide as yearns * For water-place wayfarer plodding wearily.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Indeed, though there was no proper or regular water-place, the classical Fountain of Arethusa, that celebrated daughter of Oceanus, and nymph of the Goddess of Chastity, supplied them copiously with her pure and traditionally propitious libations; and the hero, it has been seen, did not fail to anticipate, with becoming gratulations, his sense of their indisputable efficacy.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806