The only things they did not carry with them were the water-cask and a barrel of salted meat, which they left buried in the sand, being determined if they could succeed in manufacturing a canoe within any reasonable distance, they would return to fetch these articles as supplies for their proposed voyage. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water-cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering-oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One of the natives, who had attempted to steal a water-cask from the watering-place, was caught in the fact, sent on board, and put in irons. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There was no doubt that the poisoned barrel had at some time or other contained copperas; but what strange fatality had converted it into a water-cask, or what fatality, stranger still, had caused it to be brought on board the raft, was a problem that none could solve. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the blacksmith was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to tempering them, he cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near. ❋ Unknown (2002)
There should be no occasion for anyone to go into the hold soon-a fresh water-cask had been brought up only the day before. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)
Thian "put" a finger on the artery that was producing the flood so he could find out from her where Mur's water-cask was stored. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1993)
I resolved to lash myself securely to the water-cask upon which I now held, to cut it loose from the counter, and to throw myself with it into the water. ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)
My brother was at the stern, holding on to a small empty water-cask which had been securely lashed under the coop of the counter, and was the only thing on deck that had not been swept overboard when the gale first took us. ❋ William H. Elson (N/A)
They were brought there, according to a native tradition, by one Nathan Coleman, of Nantucket, who, in revenge for some fancied grievance, towed a rotten water-cask ashore, and left it in a neglected _taro_ patch, where the ground was moist and warm. ❋ Various (N/A)
To put a small lump of lime into your water-cask is useful. ❋ Elizabeth E. Lea (N/A)
The diary ends abruptly, A week later the engineer and skipper of the little tug, venturing across the sands in the hope of meeting the party returning, found Halloran's body by the side of the water-cask. ❋ Frederick Cornell (N/A)
Clear the inside of the water-cask frequently, and occasionally add to the water a little Condy's fluid, as it destroys organic matter. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"I'll take care, sir," replied the young seaman, who had now turned the end of the topsail halliards into a bight round his body, so that he could swing down in front of the water-cask and yet have his hands free. ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
My brother was at stern, holding on to a small empty water-cask which had been securely lashed under the coop of the counter, and was the only thing on deck that had not been swept overboard when the gale first took us. ❋ J. Montgomery Gambrill (N/A)
Put down your water-cask, close it properly, that not a drop may fall out. ❋ Unknown (1922)
We used to fill the water-cask with 'em to cool, an 'every time Dawn came out to dive in her dipper, wouldn't she rouse! ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)
