Mr.. Kenwigs too, was quite a lady in her manners, and of a very genteel family, having an uncle, Mr. Lillyvick, who collected a water-rate, and who she fondly hoped, would make her children his heirs. ❋ Kate Dickinson Sweetser (N/A)
-- An Anti-Ritualistic old Lady objected to paying her water-rate, when she was informed that she would be patronising "a High Service." ❋ Various (N/A)
Most of the houses in the quiet, respectable sort of streets average about twenty to twenty-five dollars per month, including everything but water-rate, which is three dollars per month. ❋ James Seaton Cockburn (N/A)
We hear, however, that he intends to have another try when the water-rate is not quite so high. ❋ Various (1898)
Duckby's satirical story of a tame otter that had a tank in the garden to swim in, and whined restlessly whenever the water-rate was overdue, was scarcely an unfair parody of some of Blenkinthrope's wilder efforts. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)
Here the sleek capitalist and there the sinewy laborer; here the man of science and here the shoe-back; here the poet and here the water-rate collector; here the cabinet minister and there the ballet-dancer. ❋ Unknown (1893)
I have already stated that municipal government is unknown; consequently there are no municipal rates to be paid, no water-rate, no poor-rate, and not a cent for either sanitation or education. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)
There is not one of the circumstances of this capture of streams -- the company, the water-rate, and the rest -- that is not a sign of the ill-luck of modern devices in regard to style. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)
The fact is, sir, if you felt disposed to do that at your own expense, and -- and to have the room cleaned, and -- and, let us say, to bear half the water-rate whilst you are here, why, really, I hardly feel justified in asking anything more. ' ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the water-rate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid. ❋ Unknown (1875)
"I was only going to take him away to wash his pretty face, sir, and smooth his hair," answered the woman, in the most insinuating tone in which she had spoken of the water-rate. ❋ Unknown (1875)
The Captain went through the brief ceremonial as coolly as if it had been the settlement of a water-rate, and was angered by the tears that poor Mary Anne shed under her cheap black veil. ❋ Unknown (1875)
"The water-rate perhaps," answered Hester, opening her own letter as she withdrew to read it. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Persian subjects in many parts of the Empire paid, besides their tribute, a water-rate, which is expressly said to have been very productive. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
'Why, that's what I came to explain to you,' replied the collector of water-rate. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
'I have known divine actresses before now, sir, I used to collect -- at least I used to CALL for -- and very often call for -- the water-rate at the house of ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
There it was, any way; always turned on, and no water-rate. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Kenwigs, and indeed from the very grasp of the water-rate collector, who was eyeing the contents of the tumbler, at the moment of its unexpected abstraction, with lively marks of pleasure visible in his countenance. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
In the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, a supply for the tank on the roof is obtained from a well which was sunk by Mr Lumley under the building, in consequence of the river company having raised his water-rate from L.60 to L.90. ❋ Various (1841)
