pump-water

The flask was again proffered -- the eye-artillery again brought into action, but Hans remained constant to pump-water and Agnes

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

Kate glanced up at the pump-water lady, with the laconic remark,

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

But to write and then see my language stripped and washed in pump-water, all the colour taken out by another man, who may be a learned man or a saint, but have no more idea of art than St. John of the Cross!

The Cathedral 1877

He stood in the boat as straight up and down as a fathom of pump-water -- a marvel of importance.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

"I'll go an 'no mistake!" cried Jack Wonnell, who had been taking a drink of pump-water out of his bell-crown.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

Having crawled to within range, the fathom of black pump-water suddenly arose and let fly an arrow.

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

I'd content myself with knocking out both his daylights for his cowardly attempt to badger an old man, but that wouldn't be safe; besides, I know'd well enough he'd take to smugglin 'again, an' soon give us a chance to nab him at his old tricks; so Coleman and I have been keepin 'a look-out on him; and we've found that small yard o' pump-water, Peekins, oncommon clever in the way o 'watchin'.

The Lifeboat 1859

One fellow, as black as a coal, as lithe as an eel, and as long -- according to Disco's standard -- as a fathom of pump-water, having come upon a herd of buffalo unseen by them, and being armed with a small bow and quiver of arrows, suddenly dropped on all-fours and began to glide through the long grass.

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

She twisted me round just as if I'd been a fathom of pump-water, shouting and laughing all the time in my face, like a sou'-west gale, and never looking a bit where she was going till she pitched head-foremost into the union-jack, carrying it and me along with her off the quarter-deck and half-way down the companion.

Hudson Bay 1859

In no case has the pressure of the atmosphere ceased; constancy, as regards the lifting of pump-water, has been hitherto the demonstrated rule of nature.

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856