horse-trough

We used to watch them at dawn come out in the deep snow to a horse-trough, and, breaking the ice, strip to their waists and wash.

Archive 2009-04-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

We used to watch them at dawn come out in the deep snow to a horse-trough, and, breaking the ice, strip to their waists and wash.

Excerpt from a War Nurse's Diary: The Operation-Theatre Victoria Janssen 2009

England, the hedgerow elms, the thin brick houses, windmills, glimpses of the navigable Thames — England, when at last I came to visit it, was only Skelt made evident: to cross the border was, for the Scotsman, to come home to Skelt; there was the inn-sign and there the horse-trough, all foreshadowed in the faithful Skelt.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Inditing of this, and of matters even better, the rider turned into the yard of the inn, where an old boat (as usual) stood for a horse-trough, and sea-tubs served as buckets.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Picture a concrete floor kitchen with a concrete horse-trough looking business with a single faucet over it, which is actually the kitchen sink.

from brian rothschild re living in mexico 2002

The payphone is the twenty-first century horse-trough.

Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives 2002

Presently Lieutenant Clemens developed a boil, and was obliged to make himself comfortable with some hay in a horse-trough, where he lay most of the day, violently denouncing the war and the fools that invented it.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Number 7, or with a bottle of water from the horse-trough or some news of the world above.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

A line of stalls selling very simple food and tobacco, a stack of firewood, a police-station, a well, a horse-trough, a few trees, and, under them, some trampled ground dotted with the black ashes of old fires, are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk; if you except the beggars and the crows — both hungry.

Kim 2003

One day we rounded to, and I got in a horse-trough, which my partner borrowed from the Indians up there at Selma while they were at prayers, and went down to sound around No. 8, and while I was gone my partner got aground on the hills at Hickman.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003