linen-horse

Updated: May 5, 2025

Thereupon Jenny, placing the towel on a linen-horse, took the handle of the pump with both hands and pumped over my head as handmaid had never pumped before; so that the water poured in torrents from my head, my face, and my hair down upon the brick floor. And, after the lapse of somewhat more than a minute, I called out with a half-strangled voice, 'Hold, Jenny! and Jenny desisted.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Thereupon Jenny, placing the towel on a linen-horse, took the handle of the pump with both hands and pumped over my head as handmaid had never pumped before; so that the water poured in torrents from my head, my face, and my hair down upon the brick floor. And, after the lapse of somewhat more than a minute, I called out with a half-strangled voice, ‘Hold, Jenny!’ and Jenny desisted.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Thereupon Jenny, placing the towel on a linen-horse, took the handle of the pump with both hands and pumped over my head as handmaid had never pumped before; so that the water poured in torrents from my head, my face, and my hair down upon the brick floor. And after the lapse of somewhat more than a minute, I called out with a half-strangled voice, "Hold, Jenny!" and Jenny desisted.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest