draw-well

Then I lay down, well-nigh dead for travail and trouble and terror, and slept without surcease till morning, when I arose and walked about under the trees, till I came to the channel of a draw-well fed by a spring of running water, by which well sat an old man of venerable aspect, girt about with a waist-cloth60 made of the fibre of palm-fronds. 61 Quoth I to myself, Haply this

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A dense red light, more like a distant spark than a lamp, affixed to the wall of what seemed a very narrow and winding stair, resembling in shape and size a draw-well, the verge of which opened on the threshold of the iron door, showed a descent which seemed to conduct to the infernal regions.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

I have a draw-well in my porch, and another in my garden, which supply tolerable water for culinary uses; but what we drink, is fetched from a well belonging to a convent of Dominicans in this neighbourhood.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The remains lie in the uneven quartzose basin at the head of the little lateral watercourse: they are built with good cement, and they evidently belong to the race that worked the “Mother of the Villages;” but there is nothing to distinguish them except the ruins of a large Sákiyah (“draw-well”), with its basin of weathered alabaster.

The Land of Midian 2003

I wish for their sakes I had the key of my study, out of my draw-well, only for five minutes, to tell you their names — recollect them I cannot — so be content to accept of these, for the present, in their stead.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Philip, with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, was working the windlass of a draw-well, and sending sparkling fresh water coursing into an oaken trough, while in the pool beneath it some early-rising ducks were taking a bath.

Boyhood 2003

I wish for their sakes I had the key of my study, out of my draw-well, only for five minutes, to tell you their names — recollect them I cannot — so be content to accept of these, for the present, in their stead.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

There was a sky and a sun over them, and a great high wall, covered with ivy, rose before them, and was so high they could not see to the top of it; and there was an arch in this wall, and the bottom of the draw-well was inside the arch.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

So they took leave of him with great respect, and walked arm-in - arm to the bottom of the draw-well.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

Without it, how should the water be got out of a draw-well?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002