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The Doctor said good, pure, sparkling water, and the supply of the school possessed these qualities, for it came from a deep draw-well that went right down, cased in brick, for about forty feet, while for sixty feet more it was cut through the solid stone.
Froude would hardly have completed the 'Reminiscences' had it not been that we could never make up our minds between him and Freeman." Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency. Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well. "They'll never let me join," cried Andrew, sorrowfully. His companion pressed his hand.
The entrance descends like the mouth of a draw-well or shaft of a mine, and deep below is heard the sullen roar of the river Doon, one branch of which, passing through the bottom of the shaft, has probably swept away the body of many a captive, whose body after death may have been thus summarily disposed of. June 28. Off we go to Castle Campbell after breakfast, i.e.
And there is the draw-well in the pitched court besides. 'Enough, I grant you, he replied, 'for the mere necessities of life. But what would come of its pleasures? Would not the beleaguered ladies miss the bounty of the marble horse? Whence comes the water he gives so freely that he needeth not to drink himself? He would thirst indeed but for my water-commanding fiend below.
D'you like all that frilly, bunchy stuff at the throat? I don't. She. Don't you? Kind Sir, o' your courtesy, As you go by the town, Sir, 'Pray you o' your love for me, Buy me a russet gown, Sir. He. I won't say: 'Keek into the draw-well, Janet, Janet. Only wait a little, darling, and you shall be stocked with russet gowns and everything else. She.
You d'sire me `crow' de hole any wida or deepa, I soon make 'im deep's a draw-well an' wide as de track ob a waggon. Wha' say, Mass' Brace?" "Hurraw for you, Snowy! It be just the thing. I dar say it's deep enough, and wide as we'll want it. You ha got good brains, nigger, not'ithstanding what them lubbers as they call filosaphurs say. I'm a white, an' niver thought o' it.
He flew like lightning there was a slope of three miles and a half we scarce touched the ground the motion was most rapid most impetuous 'twas communicated to my brain my heart partook of it 'By the great God of day, said I, looking towards the sun, and thrusting my arm out of the fore-window of the chaise, as I made my vow, 'I will lock up my study-door the moment I get home, and throw the key of it ninety feet below the surface of the earth, into the draw-well at the back of my house.
"I'm afraid of my father," observed Thomas; "he's as deep as a draw-well, and it's impossible to know what he's at. How are we to manage him at all?" "By following his advice, I think," said Ginty. "It's time, I'm sure, to get this boy into his rights."
In the court, the garrison, horse and foot, a goodly show, was drawn up to receive him, with an open lane through, leading to the north-western angle, where was the stair to the king's apartment. At the draw-well, which lay right in the way, and around which the men stood off in a circle, the king stopped, laid his hand on the wheel, and said gaily: 'My lord, is this your lordship's purse?
A curly-haired dog which had been spending the night on a dry dunghill now rose in lazy fashion and, wagging its tail, walked slowly across the courtyard. Philip, with his shirt-sleeves rolled up, was working the windlass of a draw-well, and sending sparkling fresh water coursing into an oaken trough, while in the pool beneath it some early-rising ducks were taking a bath.
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