pump-room

Lyndon was very proud of winning from so celebrated a person, and we contracted a kind of intimacy; which, however, did not for a while go beyond pump-room attentions, and conversations over the supper-table at play: but which gradually increased, until I was admitted into his more private friendship.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

What contributed to the aggrandisement of his character in this branch of knowledge, was a victory he obtained over an old physician, who plied at the well, and had one day unfortunately begun to harangue in the pump-room upon the nature of the Bristol water.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

Among those who frequented the pump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

They did excellently, and crashed in all the top of one building, damaged the second, hit the pump-room, and holed the water-tank.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Devonshire erected a handsome pump-room at St Anne's well.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Having discovered a spring of mineral water, he built a pump-room, a theatre, and a gaming-saloon, and named the establishment Hermannsbad.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

_Conversationshaus_ and a _Trinkhalle_ or pump-room, a theatre and a picture-gallery, library and reading-room are among the chief buildings.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

An old haunter of the pump-room in Bath, who had frequently conversed with Selwyn in his visits there, meeting him one day in St

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

And by the reproof of the British Roscius the doctor greatly profited; for, even among the pump-room exquisites, he was admired for the perfect grace and propriety of his pulpit manner.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

He pictured the kegs being pushed under the tap of the large tun in the pump-room and filled with brandy pumped in from the Girondin.

The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918