pump-handle

There was the pump-handle gesture; the wringing-wet - clothes gesture; and then the voice, oddly detached from the little figure and tremendously magnified by the loudspeaker, went booming and bawling round the hall: Justice!

The Years 2004

In fact he worked it up and down like a pump-handle.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

In fact he worked it up and down like a pump-handle.

The Railway Children Edith 2003

Her wet pocket-handkerchief, and the sight of her little back heaving up and down like a pump-handle, sobbing for what was denied her, screwed my nerves up.

The Waves 2003

The rusty, iron-bound wood gritted against her hands as she worked the pump-handle up and down, wondering how long it had been since water had flowed through these underground pipes.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

He worked the pump-handle vigorously, letting the first rusty half-bucketful drain away, catching the clear, cold flood that followed in a tumbler, and presenting it to Cassava.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

He worked the pump-handle vigorously, letting the first rusty half-bucketful drain away, catching the clear, cold flood that followed in a tumbler, and presenting it to Cassava.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

The organ was blown by an ordinary pump-handle which made the process equally rowdy; and Rex Brown, the blower, hidden away in his box - and only visible to us in the choir - enlivened the service by parodying it in mime or by carving girls 'names on the woodwork.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

This time he wouldn't let her hand go, but went on shaking it up and down as if he was pumping water with a pump-handle.

Five Go Off In A Caravan Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1951

He gave one glance, saw his chum leap through the big opening, with the curtain of fire, and then, murmuring a hope that he was safe, he began to work the pump-handle.

The Young Firemen of Lakeville; or, Herbert Dare's Pluck Frank V. Webster