spring-hole

What was more to the point, he had a store of live minnows in a spring-hole that never froze up, even in the hardest winter, he had been told.

The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats George A. Warren

When any of them came prowling around the spring-hole where he was fishing, he would tease them by letting them see how fat he was.

Mother West Wind "How" Stories Harrison Cady 1919

Mr. Otter made up his mind right away that the cold, black water of that open spring-hole was the only place for him, and he started for it without even passing the time of day with Mr. Lynx.

Mother West Wind "How" Stories Harrison Cady 1919

Mr. Otter was almost out of breath when he reached the high bank just above the open spring-hole.

Mother West Wind "How" Stories Harrison Cady 1919

The spring-hole had been trodden by the poor, eager creatures into a useless jelly of mud.

More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

Jerkily he began to back his horse out of the spring-hole, back -- back -- back through the intricate, overgrown pathway of flapping leaves and sharp, scratchy twigs.

Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

Creakily under their hot, chafing saddles the sweltering roans lurched off suddenly through a great snarl of bushes into a fern-shaded spring-hole and stood ankle-deep in the boggy grass, guzzling noisily at food and drink, with the chunky gray crowding greedily against first one rider and then the other.

Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

As the foreman and Collie disappeared beyond the crest of the hill, the colt, who had watched them with absurdly stupid intensity, lowered his head and nibbled indifferently at the grass along the edge of the spring-hole fence.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

Until the last rain, the spring-hole fence had appeared solid -- but one night of rain in the California hills can work unimaginable changes in trail, stream-bed, or fence line.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

The foreman's inspection terminated with the repairing of a break in the fence inclosing the spring-hole, a small area of bog-land dotted with hummocks of lush grass.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909