How To Use Water-rate In A Sentence

• When all the financial world was clamoring for money and perishing through lack of it, the first of each month many thousands of dollars poured into his coffers from the water-rates, and each day ten thousand dollars, in dime and nickels, came in from his street railways and ferries. Chapter XX
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• It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841
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