These drains are flushed several times daily during the season of the fair by water pumped from the Volga.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Arriving there, an old negro janitor pumped the organ, and the girl played until she thought her father was tired, when they returned home again, where he spent the remainder of the day alone; thinking, no doubt, of his property in the cemetery, and of the sad day when it became necessary to make the purchase.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
He addresses his hearers in language on a level with their capabilities, and assumes that they are not 'passive buckets to be pumped into' but reasonable men who have a right to be critics as well as disciples.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen