 |
"Spigot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here. What she most wished to do at the moment was to get close to the big open grate where a cheery red-and-gold fire cracked. It was necessary, however, to follow the clerk. He assigned her to a small drab room which contained a bed, a bureau, and a stationary washstand with one spigot. There was also a chair. While Carley removed her coat and hat the clerk went downstairs for the rest of her luggage. Upon his return Carley learned that a stage left the hotel for Oak Creek Canyon at nine o'clock next morning. And this cheered ...
— The Call of the Canyon • Zane Grey
... unlock the locks; which done, we rushed it violently over the threshold, turned left, still running, and came to a final stop in front of the kitchen. Here stood three enormous wooden tubs. We backed the wagon around; then one man opened a spigot in the rear of the barrel, and at the same time the other elevated the shafts in a clever manner, inducting the jet d'eau to hit one of the tubs. One tub filled, we switched the stream wittily to the next. To fill the three tubs (they were not always all of them empty) ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... to put the spigot in. It's just come over me.... And it is queer To think he'll not care if we lose or win. And yet be jumping-mad ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps |
Words linked to "Spigot" : faucet, water tap, water faucet, plug, stopple, cock, mixing faucet, stopper, hydrant, cask, tap, hold, grip, stopcock, barrel, turncock, regulator, handle, handgrip |
Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com
|
