The agony of the wretch I did not fully realize until the steward, his bare fore-arms sprayed by the splash from the ventilator slats, suddenly felt the bite of the acid through his tight, whole skin and made a mad rush for the water-barrel at the corner of the house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then he went to attend the man, and when he had cured him he gave him the necessary sum to buy a horse and a water-barrel. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“That young fellow there I can recommend to you as an awful rascal,” said my neighbor, pointing to a laborer with a swarthy, gipsy face, who drove by with the water-barrel. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ti-Philippe unlashed an empty water-barrel and rolled it over unasked, making a writing surface. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
"But that old shack where we killed the rattler isn't far off, and I saw a water-barrel under the caves." ❋ A. W. Dimock (N/A)
"If it hadna been for the lid o 'the water-barrel gien wey yon nicht, you michta been skelpin' Dossie's bairns the day -- an 'your ain too." ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
Her æsthetic soul was at first greatly tried with the water-barrel which stood under the eaves-spout, -- a most necessary evil, since only thus could her scanty supply of soft water for domestic purposes be secured. ❋ Various (N/A)
A mat in a large upper room, shared with several others, serves him in winter as a place of repose for the night; but during the summer he frequently sleeps out in the open air, making his filled water-barrel his pillow. ❋ Various (N/A)
Accordingly, I couldn't miss sight of three or four young slips alongside, for they made plenty of noise -- one of 'em on top of a water-barrel smoking a cigar; another singing out inside of it for mercy; and the rest roaring round about it, like so many Bedlamites. ❋ Various (N/A)
And after tossing around for some time I got up, lit a pipe, and walked over to the water-barrel to get a drink. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
A gardener in shirt-sleeves was filling a water-barrel by the river, under a hawthorn-tree, and the young man in the punt was putting up his fishing-tackle. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He and his pony and water-barrel cart became part of the company. ❋ Harry H. Mead (N/A)
Shvigovsky managed to drop the package behind a water-barrel, when he was in the hall, and whispered to the housekeeper, who gave us our dinner under supervision of the police, to take it away from there and hide it. ❋ Trotsky, Leon (1930)
One of them was so thirsty that he went over to the water-barrel and bent down to drink. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Hastily he stole behind a water-barrel which stood near the arch, and hid himself. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Holmes then threw the handkerchief to a distance, fastened a stout cord to the mongrel's collar, and led him to the foot of the water-barrel. ❋ Unknown (1915)
I suggested that, perhaps, she was tired and the water-barrel was heavy. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
They fetch the firewood and all the water; and as they tramp to and from the spring with the heavy water-barrel bound by woollen cords to their shoulders, they spin or knit incessantly. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
