sump-hole

The car seemed first to stand on one end, then on the other, and to reel drunkenly and to threaten to turn over into the sump-hole when its right front wheel fell into the air where the road had ceased to be.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

The ditch was a huge natural sump-hole, the stagnant surface of which was a-crawl with slime twenty feet beneath.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

The car seemed first to stand on one end, then on the other, and to reel drunkenly and to threaten to turn over into the sump-hole when its right front wheel fell into the air where the road had ceased to be.

Whose Business Is To Live 1922

The ditch was a huge natural sump-hole, the stagnant surface of which was a-crawl with slime twenty feet beneath.

Whose Business Is To Live 1922

If there was a sump-hole in sight, that horse was sure to flounder into it.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

He had rather a fine horse, and in passing a sump-hole, his sled had skidded and slipped downhill into the water.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

The trenches began collapsing at once; after each heavy storm the unrevetted sides fell in, and liquid mud, reaching as high as the thighs, made movement almost impossible; the sump-hole covers floated away, and in the darkness it sometimes happened that a man would be plunged in water up to his neck.

The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) 1914

The ditch was a huge natural sump-hole, the stagnant surface of which was a-crawl with slime twenty feet beneath.

Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London 1896

The car seemed first to stand on one end, then on the other, and to reel drunkenly and to threaten to turn over into the sump-hole when its right front wheel fell into the air where the road had ceased to be.

Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London 1896

a day, and every step we rose from that sump-hole of the gods was like the lifting of a weight.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916