Artesian well

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The moment they hear of John's Artesian well, they look as if they never drank water.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie

Get down to the love of God, and the love of men therefrom, and you have got an Artesian well which will bubble up unfailingly.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

The Artesian well, in many localities, is but the work of a few days or a week.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

And I knew a manufacturer, too, who went to bore an Artesian well for water, and hired a regular well-borer to do it. 

From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles

Thus, in the Artesian well at Neuffen, in W�rtemberg, it was as much as 1°F. for every 19 feet.

From Geology by Geikie, James