water-cart

A solitary water-cart goes jingling down the wide pavement, and spirts a feeble refreshment over the dusty, thirsty stones.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Here and there some specially remarkable circumstance, such as a water-cart or a guardsman, fairly penetrates into the seat of thought and calls them, for half a moment, out of themselves; and you may see them, still towed forward sideways by the inexorable nurse as by a sort of destiny, but still staring at the bright object in their wake.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

He opened his eyes; an early water-cart was nearing down the Row.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Every house having lately brightened up its whitewash — which they always do there when the frosts are over, soon after the feast of St. Barnabas — and the weeds of the way having fared amiss in the absence of any water-cart, it was not in the strong, sharp character of the sun to miss such an opportunity.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

John Furphy designed a galvanised iron water-cart on wheels and his firm, J.

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And then the early water-cart, cleansing the reek of the streets, had approached through the strange-seeming, useless lamp-light; he seemed to hear again its rumble, nearer and nearer, till it passed and slowly died away.

The Man of Property 2004

At the window, my attention was arrested by a driver harnessing a horse to a water-cart, and at once my mind concentrated itself upon the decision of the question, “Into what animal or human being will the spirit of that horse pass at death?”

Boyhood 2003

A municipal water-cart was driving slowly past and he watched, as if it were something never seen before, the way the water spurted through a multitude of tiny holes and then spread out over the roadway.

Maigret's Little Joke Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1960

One shell came near enough to send a chimney-pot and some slates clattering to the ground, making a pair of water-cart horses plunge wildly; a French soldier was killed farther down the street.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

When our very last water-cart, mess-cart, and G.S. waggon had passed, I thanked the French officer with great sincerity, and felt I had done a proper job of work.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols