He was armed with a small pewter squirt, with which he was trying to smear the front of that building by drawing up dirty water from the gutter.

The range of the squirt did not appear to reach more than half-way across the street.

Had made money out of it by threatening respectable people with his pewter squirt, and they would give him money rather than have their clothes soiled.

He had constructed to order for the prisoner a peculiar velocipede called the "Sun Squirt."

On this machine, the prisoner, armed with a pewter squirt, used to practise for several hours a day, careering rapidly around the rink, and taking flying shots, as he went, at large posters attached to the wall, having portraits on them of General GRANT, Hon. H. GREELEY, Hon. WM.

A reward of $5,000 has been offered for any information about the pewter squirt, and particularly as to when, and by whom it was made; and, as detectives are now engaged in working up the case, there can be but little doubt that the vile instrument will ere long be identified.

Pa turned the cock of the extinguisher, and pointed the nozzle at Bolivar's head, and began to squirt the medicated water all over him.

She had four new manias every year; her last winter's one had been that bottle-and-squirt mania, miscalled chemistry; her spring madness was for the Greek drama.

But these mottled clays and sands abound in water (being indeed the layer which supplies the great breweries in London, and those soda-water bottles on dumb-waiters which squirt in Trafalgar Square); and (I suppose) the water being reached, the boring ceased.

I have heard a young man say, after hearing a few popular chemical lectures, and seeing a few bottle and squirt experiments: Oh, waterwater is only oxygen and hydrogen!as if he knew all about it.

When they mean to wash their head and hands, they fill their mouths with water, which they squirt out gradually on their hands, and moisten their hair or wash their heads.

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He is travelled, but to little purpose; only went over for a squirt and came back again, yet never the more mended in his conditions, because he carried himself along with him.

For nine hours they fought, the English using their celebrated squirt-guns filled with hot water and other fixed ammunition.

"Don't take on airs, you little squirt!" said he.

The canoes [around the ship] fled away and reported that Kapupuu had been killed by a ball from a squirt-gun.

From one of the stalls could be heard the rhythmical squirt of milk against the milking-pail, for David was engaged upon his evening work.

Don't squirt that infernal stuff at me!

But, as long as we're talking about it, I must say I think what Thaddeus really needs is a motormangun, to squirt ammonia, or even beer, into the faces of these cable-car fellows.

A water-gun, by which you could squirt the water to the top of the highest trees; singing tops which could spin almost a quarter of an hour.

"They had up the stable-boy with a great squirt; he had to keep staring at Cray while Johnnie read aloud, and every time Cray winked he was to squirt Johnnie.

"They had up the stable-boy with a great squirt; he had to keep staring at Cray while Johnnie read aloud, and every time Cray winked he was to squirt Johnnie.

NEWCOMEN, THOMAS, blacksmith, born at Dartmouth; invented a steam-engine in which the piston was raised by steam and driven down by the atmosphere after the injection into the cylinder of a squirt of cold water, which cooled it, so that the steam when injected did not raise the piston at once up.

A young man came out of the house and took his place in line with a big squirt-gun and a pail of steaming-hot water.

She had not taken many steps before she was startled by a sharp shower from a squirt coming sidelong like a blow on her cheek and surprising her into a low cry, which was heard by the Major, so that he hastened out, exclaiming, "Madam, I trust that you are not hurt.