Somerset County, with about 77,000 residents, could use jobs, having in recent years suffered the closure of a factory making camping trailers and another producing garden-hose nozzles. ❋ James R. Hagerty (2011)
I calibrate the garden-hose timer to observed usage patterns. ❋ Manny Howard (2010)
There is no surface irrigation (basin, furrow, flood recession) in the conventional sense, but the term is used to include the use of garden-hose flooding and hand-watering. ❋ Unknown (2008)
About two inches after this member left his body it was closely shaved for some six inches or more, and for that space it presented the effect of a rather large size of garden-hose; below, it swept his thighs in a lordly switch. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I have not adequately suggested; and may I say that the spray of a garden-hose seemed all that would be needed to put the place in readiness for occupation? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Just, if the other local cats poach too often at my bird feeders, they can expect to get a surprise from the garden-hose. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1999)
Humming-birds, or "hummers," as the boys call them, are plenty in city and country and so fearless that they will take a bath in the spray of the garden-hose, or dart their long bills in the fuchsias almost within your reach. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
A powerful garden-hose of considerable calibre might be useful, but for the present I have given Sabz Ali orders to rig out long poles, which will prevent the enemy from so easily getting to close quarters. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)
She had never failed to look back at the episode of the garden-hose with the feeling that she had acted well, that -- however she might have strayed in those early days from the straight and narrow path -- in that one particular crisis she had done the right thing. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Regardless of the fact that the sidewalks were crowded with spectators, the Belgians opened on the fleeing Germans with their machine-gun, which spurted lead as a garden-hose spurts water. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Choking upon it, Penrod slid down from the fence, and with slow and thoughtful steps entered a one-storied wing of the stable, consisting of a single apartment, floored with cement and used as a storeroom for broken bric-a-brac, old paint-buckets, decayed garden-hose, worn-out carpets, dead furniture, and other condemned odds and ends not yet considered hopeless enough to be given away. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts was a Magsworth born, herself, and the Magsworth crest decorated not only Mrs. Magsworth Bitts 'note-paper but was on the china, on the table linen, on the chimney-pieces, on the opaque glass of the front door, on the victoria, and on the harness, though omitted from the garden-hose and the lawn-mower. ❋ Unknown (1914)
But Pete was watching the auctioneer's gavel -- which happened to be a short piece of rubber garden-hose. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
Bitts was a Magsworth born, herself, and the Magsworth crest decorated not only Mrs. Magsworth Bitts 'note-paper but was on the china, on the table linen, on the chimney-pieces, on the opaque glass of the front door, on the victoria, and on the harness, though omitted from the garden-hose and the lawn-mower. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
And while a great many citizens carried the complaint of the garden-hose handlers to the commissioner, it is doubtful if he heard them above the combined sound of his own voice and the roar of the flames. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
As she approached, her husband stood on the grass-plot in his shirt sleeves with a garden-hose. ❋ Robert Grant (1896)