pump-waater

Updated: July 5, 2025

His height was about six foot three; and his long slender limbs and spare frame had earned him, as a lad, among the men of his father's works, the description of "two yards o' pump-waater, straight oop an' down." But in his thin lengthiness there was nothing awkward rather a graceful readiness and vigor.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory