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Sentences ending with pump

He remembered that there was company at the pump. [5]
When Mr. Eng Nye's deep and broad and limpid philosophies flow by in front of you, refreshing all the regions round about with their gracious floods, you will remember that it isn't his water; it's the other man's, and he is only working the pump. [5]

Sentences containing pump two or more times

I made a pump and set the men to work to pump out the glacier. [5]

More example sentences with the word pump in them

To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. [6]
However, the pump was at work again, and the flood-water was decreasing. [5]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
I give up tryin' to pump him just as soon as I made up my mind it was a woman. [11]
They are to touch neither a sail nor a pump, but to be merely passengers--deadheads at that--to be carried snug and dry throughout the storm, and safely landed right side up. [7]
He made his toilet in the wet under the pump outside; where he had to wait his turn. [9]
Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. [5]
He glanced at the dirty innyard in the middle of which soldiers were watering their lean horses at the pump while carts were passing out of the gate. [2]
To those monks that pump was a good deal of a miracle itself, and they were full of wonder over it; and of admiration, too, of the exceeding effectiveness of its performance. [5]
And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour--and even then somebody generally had to go after him. [5]
It has to tally up a hundred against one before it can pump up pluck enough to tackle a sick tailor. [5]
You are as reluctant as our pump at Wilmot House in the dry season. [9]
It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction? [6]
When one broke out the plan was to form a long line of men, who passed buckets of water between the nearest pump, well, or river, and the burning building. [11]
We never tell our secrets to people that pump for them. [6]
Don't be afraid of your man; he 's used to it,--he's been pumped often enough to take it easy, and what you've got to do is to pump him dry. [6]
Filled with curiosity, Mr. Dodd forgot his pump, but Bob was already striding into Brampton Street, carrying his bag. [9]
But I believe I will pump it a little, in a quiet way, and find out if we are right. [5]
You can pump him till you are tired; it ain't any use; you won't get anything. [5]
Only give the editor a subject, and his work is done--it is no trouble to write it up; but fancy how you would feel if you had to pump your brains dry every day in the week, fifty-two weeks in the year. [5]
A peasant was drawing water at the pump, and the handle made a noise; a priest chatted with three French ladies who had come over from a neighbouring seaside resort. [9]
Professor,--said he, one day,--don't you think your brain will run dry before a year's out, if you don't get the pump to help the cow? [6]
In repairing the damage done to the incline, the pump had to be stopped for two hours, and in the meantime the water gained about a foot. [5]
It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle. [6]
If persons should come about you, and show a disposition to pump you on the subject, it may be no more than prudent to remember that it may be possible they design to misrepresent you and embarrass the real testimony you may ultimately give. [7]
You might pump at him a week, it wouldn't make no difference. [5]
She could grind, and pump, and churn, and buzz by the week, and never stop to oil up or blow out. [5]
By every right and by every moral evidence the man was strictly sober; and, therefore, it caused his friends all the more anguish to see him shake hands with the pump and try to wind his watch with his night-key. [5]
They had pack-mules along, and had brought everything I needed--tools, pump, lead pipe, Greek fire, sheaves of big rockets, roman candles, colored fire sprays, electric apparatus, and a lot of sundries--everything necessary for the stateliest kind of a miracle. [5]
It would be a very plausible river if they would pump some water into it. [5]
Then she had a new inspiration: "Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you? [5]
I was for a minute like a pump with no water in its throat to work the piston and fetch the stream up. [11]

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