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Daylight devoted himself to the lightening of Dede's labors, and it was her brother who incited him to utilize the splendid water-power of the ranch that was running to waste.
Chapter XXVI 2010
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He saw the white-walled, water-power factories of Rio Blanco.
The Mexican 2010
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This could be dammed for a trout lake and to provide water-power for a small scale hydro-power station for her extra power needs.
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The State has great capabilities for saw and flour mills; the Grand Rapids alone have a fall of fifteen feet in a mile, and afford immense water-power.
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His salary was gradually raised — in the evenings he obtained employment in writing for a lawyer, and his savings, judiciously managed, increased to such an extent, that at the end of eighteen months he purchased a thriving farm in the neighbourhood of London, and, as there was water-power upon it, he built a grist-mill.
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In addition to the wealth gained in the cultivation of the soil, the settlers are seizing upon the vast water-power which the country affords, and are turning it to the most profitable purposes.
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But whatever the case, to paraphrase another detective classic, the water-power obsessed movie Chinatown 1974: Forget it...
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Could I have put that there unekaled sample of water-power and human ingenuity together without laboring hard for whole months of a stretch, except upon the Sabbath, and laying awake night after night, and bending all my intellect over it?
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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The dam for water-power was made of the same materials, and 27 feet high.
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Then there are prayer-mills, sometimes 150 in a row, which revolve easily by being brushed by the hand of the passer-by, larger prayer-cylinders which are turned by pulling ropes, and others larger still by water-power.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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