Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
The picture on the first page of the book will give you some idea of it. Yon have, perhaps, often seen a well-sweep. The long beam in the picture is swung in the same manner as is the well-sweep, with a single exception. In addition to its usual motion, it is made to turn horizontally.
The queen flushed and kissed the cheek. "Farewell, and peace go with thee," she said quietly. The princess retained her composure until she reentered the hall. There she flung her arms above her head and laughed silently. "Of a truth, I take peace with me, and I leave discord behind!" Shadoof a pole with a bucket attached, like the old well-sweep, used by rustics to dip water from the Nile.
Rolf was hauling a bucket of water from the well at the time. He stopped with his burden on the well-sweep, gazed into the well, and said slowly: "I don't know." If the truth were set forth, it would be that this was the only home circle he knew. It was the clan feeling that held him, and soon it was clearly the same reason that was driving Quonab to roam.
For her beautiful character was just such an illumination to my young life as I should most desire mine to be to the lives of others. My aunt, like my father, was always studying something. Some map or book always lay open before her, when I went to visit her, in her picturesque old house, with its sloping roof and tall well-sweep.
By the time the man was back with a parallelogram of the maple sugar in his hand, I was convinced that he had spoken the truth. "Aunt Ellen certainly is a dear," he went on. "I run down to see her every time I get a chance. Same old rain-barrel! Same old beehives! Same old well-sweep! Wouldn't trade them for any others in the world.
As he neared Mother Lemon's cottage, with its thatched roof and tiny windows, he saw the old woman, in her short gown, tugging at the well-sweep. It seemed very hard for her to draw up the heavy bucket. Instantly Gabriel ran forward. "Get out of here, now," cried the old woman, in a cracked voice, for she saw it was one of the school-children, and she was weary of their worrying tricks.
The first object to which my eyes were drawn was an old-fashioned well-sweep. It did not take much imaginative sensibility to be stirred by the sight of this most useful, most ancient, most picturesque, of domestic conveniences.
On the outskirts of the village, there was many a quaint old weather-beaten house with a well-sweep, perhaps, for accompaniment, excellent subjects for a sketchbook, and Walden woods were always full of natural side-shows and those charming effects of color and shadow which artists delight in.
"Don't you think it's pretty nice here?" asked Bab, as his eye came back to them after a long look, which seemed to take in every thing, brightening as it roved. "Just the nicest place that ever was. Only needs a horse round somewhere to be complete," answered Ben, as the long well-sweep came up with a dripping bucket at one end, an old grindstone at the other.
Which is which?" and Laurie bent like a well-sweep to examine the prodigies. "Amy put a blue ribbon on the boy and a pink on the girl, French fashion, so you can always tell. Besides, one has blue eyes and one brown. Kiss them, Uncle Teddy," said wicked Jo. "I'm afraid they mightn't like it," began Laurie, with unusual timidity in such matters. "Of course they will, they are used to it now.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking