15 Words to use with hoses

Her tall red funnel was inclined sharply, much of her side was above water, and muddy streams poured from the scuppers on the after deck, where men with long boots pulled a hose-pipe about.

It had nothing but an old-fashioned engine, a hose-cart, and a ladder-truck, all of which had to be drawn by two-footed steeds, the volunteer firemen of the village.

Fire-engines, hose-wagons, and police patrols race to conflagrations propelled by motors, and get there quicker than ever before.

Oh, Philadelphia?Waterworks,killed by the Croton and Cochituate; Ben Franklin,borrowed from Boston;David Rittenhouse,made an orrery;Benjamin Rush,made a medical system:both interesting to antiquarians;great Red-river raft of medical students,spontaneous generation of professors to match;more widely known through the Moyamensing hose-company, and the Wistar parties;for geological section of social strata, go to The Club.

Notwithstanding the fact that the sidewalks were lined with onlookers, the Belgians opened on the fleeing Germans with their machine guns, which spurted lead as a garden hose spurts water.

His boots are the legacies of two black jacks, and till he pawned the silver that the jacks were tipped with it was a pretty mode of boot-hose-tops.

That rude barrow, with its clumsy wheel, thinly rimmed with an iron hoop, was to him what the steam engine, and two miles of iron tubing, and all its hose-power were to that eminent agriculturist, of whom he spoke in terms of high esteem as a neighbor, and even as a competitor.

His hair was curled, his shoes slashed, his hose red.

A group of guards appeared with a hose-reel.

The hose nozzle is very difficult for the firemen to hold.

Arrived at the market-place, they tried its range; that appeared satisfactory enough; but the idea seems to have struck the man who held the hose-end, that range without good aim was useless: he accordingly looked round for a target, and a glass coach passing by at the time, it struck him as peculiarly suited for his experiment.

The second motion was followed by a hoarse sound, which shook the tower to its foundations, and started into listening attitudes a thousand firemen in their engine or hose houses, in the streets, at the theatres, or at their own homes.

Trewe ( = honest) Tripennies Trondling Trouses True man Trundle bed Trunk-hose Tub-hunter ( = parasite) Turnops Two Noble Ladyes.

The only spectators were groups of German soldiers, who watched the threatened destruction of the city with complete indifference, and several companies of firemen who had turned out, I suppose, from force of training, but who stood helplessly beside their empty hose lines, for there was no water.

There was a rattle of engines, hose carriages, and hook-and-ladder trucks through the streets.

15 Words to use with  hoses