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  • We get out to the wellhouse, though, and the well filter is leaking and the floor is a small lake.

    Finally Home archmage 2010

  • A few moments more, and they could make out the red-roofed wellhouse, set apart from the rest of the buildings.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • But as they neared, they could see that waiting beside the public well was a stoop-shouldered old man, gnarled and weathered as a mountain tree, with a thick thatch of snow-white hair tucked under a knitted cap the same bright red as the wellhouse roof.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Even as Tarma spoke, something separated itself from the side of the wellhouse.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • The whole gang was running around like chickens, doing the hopeless, bringing buckets of water from the wellhouse.

    Old Tin Sorrows Cook, Glen 1989

  • Halfway there, he come to the good well, and there was Makepeace Smith setting on the low wall of footing stones Al had laid down to be foundation for the wellhouse.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

  • I guessed Chain was taking his ease in the wellhouse till planting time.

    Old Tin Sorrows Cook, Glen 1989

  • Another day when mother was washing at the wellhouse and I was playing around, two white men came with a big, broad-shouldered colored man between them.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

  • She was working under the cover of the wellhouse and tears was running down her face.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

  • The creature was howling outside the old wellhouse, and Sir Robert was in one of his tantrums that morning.

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

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