"Enjoy yourself, Sadie," says I. "Only remember that this is a hansom, not a street sprinkler."
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
We'd got as far as the gates, one of these fancy kind, with a hood top over the posts, like the roof of a summer-house, when the sprinkler was turned on in earnest.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
Father Mancia smiled, dipped the sprinkler over and over in the holy water, gave us all a generous shower, and took his leave.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt