A soft-water shell shone like a pearl in the corner of a glassless window slender as a dagger. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)
He watched the fowls and the ducks, to see their condition; he noticed the flight of wood-pigeons overhead: they were very numerous; he saw the few apples high up, which March had not been able to reach; he remarked that they had borrowed a draw-pump, presumably to empty the big soft-water cistern which was on the north side of the house. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Staid housewives for many a day after complained of the dirt the trampling of feet had made in their lobbies and yards, and deplored the loss of their stores of soft-water. ❋ A Nonagenarian (N/A)
"Then you can go and wash yourself in the soft-water tub." ❋ Unknown (1913)
Then I found a "soft-water" pond hidden behind a fringe of scrub-willow and poplar. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
I explained to Dinky-Dunk that I wanted eave-troughs on both the shack and the stable, for the sake of the soft-water, and proceeded to point out the need of a new washing-machine, and a kiddie-coop for Poppsy and Pee-Wee as soon as the weather got warm, and a fence, hog-tight and horse-high, about my half-acre of kitchen garden. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
It has turned quite cold again, with frosts sharp enough at night to freeze a half-inch of ice on the tub of soft-water I've been so carefully saving for future shampoos. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
We're to have a telephone, as soon as the railway gets through, and a wind-mill and running water, and a new barn with a big soft-water tank at one end, and a hot-water furnace in the new house and sleeping porches and a butler's pantry and a laundry chute -- and next winter in ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
You'll find there won't be a single one omitted -- not even the second footman or the soft-water cistern. ❋ Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1894)
The cottages which stand upon the holdings have been built in pairs, at a cost of about £380 per pair, which price includes drainage, a drinking well, and, I think, a soft-water cistern. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The roof of George's house had a kind of depression or well in the middle of it, whence ran a rainwater pipe, which passed down inside, and so, under the floor, to the soft-water cistern. ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)
"For," said he to himself, "I mayn't be there next time there's a scythe across the path, and who knows but what some day it may be the well in real airnest; Dan Barnett may leave the lid off, or uncover the soft-water tank, and the poor chap be drowned 'fore he knows it." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
The wooden cover was placed upon the galvanised-iron soft-water tank, and poor Grip, who looked wistfully up in the Colonel's eyes, was lifted out and laid carefully upon the top, while the Colonel took off his coat and turned up his sleeves in the most business-like manner. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
But there was nothing to be seen but a thin red water-worm wriggling at the bottom, such as you may see any day in a soft-water tub. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)
This year, life has been much better because of a Clam Ice Armor suit, which does for ice fishing what a good set of foul-weather gear does for soft-water angling, and you couldn't find a better time to buy it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Along with scientists from several Canadian government laboratories, the team has documented biological damage caused by declining levels of calcium in many temperate, soft-water lakes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
a mechanical arrangement of winch and barrel, which sent down one big, heavy bucket as the winder worked and brought up another full; and it was Wrench's special task to draw the drinking-water from this well for the whole of the school, that used for domestic purposes coming from two different sources -- one an ordinary well, and the other a gigantic soft-water tank. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Yo BRO you [tryna hit] some soft water when [we hit] the club tonight?"
"I drank so much soft water I went from one city to another without remember in what happened!"
"Like the first time you tried soft water" [good Friday] by WHY? ❋ Chaz Mcdapper (2017)
Rather than practicing the "[soft drink]" water-saver rule to [save on] my utility-bills, I collect [rainwater] in buckets outside, and then use that some of the time to flush my toilet. ❋ QuacksO (2018)
