irrigate

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Its eyes and spine would irrigate a desert.

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A single canal system could carry enough water to irrigate an estimated ten thousand acres.

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“What you all ought to do,” Johnny Pacheco said, “is get up some morning around 4:00 A.M. and irrigate the whole west side.”

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Tiwanaku let the water through, but took enough to irrigate more than seven hundred acres of terraces.

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He had heard the doctor tell the white nurse to irrigate my head with Epsom salts and warm water every two or three hours or I wouldn’t make it.

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