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The corridor upstairs, which at his going out had filled him with distaste there were boots in it, and water-cans was now the Passage Beautiful; for he might meet her there.
The trench water-cans had been filled, an act of courtesy between battalions, the dugouts thoroughly cleaned, and the refuse buried. The process of "taking over" was a very brief one.
Ruth cast a timorous glance towards the workers, and murmured something about not having much time to spare, but she placed the water-cans on the ground and sank down on the grass. Stanford throwing himself on the sward at her feet, but, seeing that she shrank back, he drew himself further from her, resting where he might gaze upon her face.
Our water-cans were filled, and no stint in the culinary department was allowed that evening. The flames from our camp-fire shot into the soft atmosphere, while the fishes, attracted by its glare, leaped by scores, in a state of bewilderment, from the now quiet water. St.
Miss Nightingale, and benevolent visitors from England, bought up at Constantinople, and obtained from home, vast supplies of body- and bed-linen, towels, basins, and water-cans; and till they did so, the poor patients lay on a single blanket or coarse canvas sheet, in their one shirt, perhaps soaked in blood and dirt.
"Well, what would you do then?" cried Singh. "Well, sir, I shouldn't stop here till you two gents had done schooling." Then, picking up his two water-cans once more, the Doctor's footman trudged off towards the house. "That must have been old Slegge who threw his boots at him," said Singh thoughtfully. "What a disagreeable fellow he is!" "Yes," said Glyn. "I wish I had been there to stop it.
Below the gate the ground slopes away, bare and blazing, to a hollow where a little blue-green minaret gleams through fig-trees, and fragments of arch and vaulting reveal the outline of a ruined mosque. Was ever shade so blue-black and delicious as that of the cork-tree near the spring where the donkey's water-cans are being filled?
A few hours later, news was received at Versailles that fighting was going on towards the south of Paris between French troops and the Prussians; and all the inhabitants, including foreign residents, were busy in preparing supplies for the field-hospitals, lint, bandages, water-cans, and pillows stuffed with torn paper. Before long, eight Prussians and an officer entered the city.
Dresser's water-cans and other contrivances, modelled more or less after the antique, but I found an abundant assortment of them here in Boston, and I have one I obtained here more original in design and more serviceable in daily use than any I saw in London. I should have regarded Wolverhampton, as we glided through it, with more interest, if I had known at that time that the inventive Dr.
Peter asked her the way to the gate, but she had such a large pea in her mouth that she could not answer. She only shook her head at him. Peter began to cry. Then he tried to find his way straight across the garden, but he became more and more puzzled. Presently, he came to a pond where Mr. McGregor filled his water-cans.
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