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In a pretty affectation, we were asked to meditate upon the old garret, the deserted hearth, the old letters, the old well-sweep, the dead baby, the little shoes; we were put into a mood in which we were defenseless against the lukewarm flood of the Tupperean Philosophy.

Washington Irving 2004

Beyond this fence and below the white mound, was a well, by the side of which stood a well-sweep, windlass and such like articles; the ground further down being divided into parcels, and apportioned into fields, which, with the fine vegetables and cabbages in flower, presented, at the first glance, the aspect of being illimitable.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

[1] Shadoof -- a pole with a bucket attached, like the old well-sweep, used by rustics to dip water from the Nile.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

One would fain have the surroundings unchanged -- the cot where Woodworth dwelt, the ponderous well-sweep, creaking with age, at which his youthful hands were wont to tug strongly; and finally the mossy bucket, overflowing with crystal nectar fresh from the cool depths below.

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford

Farm-house boarders from the city would sometimes enter the yard, thinking to draw water by the old well-sweep: in a few minutes it was customary to hear shrieks, and to see women and children flying over the walls, followed by air-rending "honks!" and jubilant cackles from the victorious gander and his admiring family.

Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various

I was thirsty; but ahead was the old well-sweep, and, behind the cool lattice of the dairy window, were pans of milk in abundance.

Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Various

The ruined walls of this old mansion, with lichen cropping out from every crevice; the unhinged doors and broken windows; the ladder rotting as it leans against the moss-grown roof, the broken well-sweep and deserted barn, offer an aspect of desolation and decay which should prove sufficient bait to tempt any ghost of moderate demands.

The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

They had to carry with them the big bucket fastened to a long pole, for there was no well-sweep.

Classic Myths Mary Catherine Judd

The Lincoln homestead in Indiana, in 1820-23, had at the first the primitive corn-mill in the Indian fashion -- a burnt-out block with a pounder rigged to a well-sweep.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams