waterworks bureau; water department
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
clerk; (bureau, post-office) staff
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
maintenance; preservation; improvement
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
need; want; necessity; expenses; cost
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
dig site; excavation site
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
such ... as; or some such
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
victory or defeat; issue (of battle); outcome
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry
countries concerned (involved)
bloodshot eyes; (doing something in a) frenzy
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)