Sentence examples for pump handles from inspiring English sources

Both teams got golden gas pump handles.

Following that firearm were instruments of death as delicate as handkerchiefs and as practical as pump handles.

In his office, he has two award plaques with pump handles on them — a reference to John Snow, the father of epidemiology, who traced a London cholera outbreak to one contaminated pump and halted it by removing the handle.

They took action and blocked 72 Shell fuel stations in the Netherlands for several hours by locking gas pump handles together with bike locks.

The pump handle had been missing for as long as anyone could remember.

Dr. Snow took off the well's pump handle and became a legend.

Women in Africa walk for hours to a well, and then jiggle the pump handle for 60 seconds.

However, because cholera deaths were already declining in the city, Snow was unable to attribute the end of the outbreak directly to the removal of the pump handle.

LIZ BORKOWSKI, on The Pump Handle blog on scienceblogs.com THE MAGICAL REALISM OF NORWEGIAN NIGHTS I lived in Norway for a time 45 years ago.

For all Snow's wisdom, dedication, and intellectual originality, the parish board that removed the pump handle did not specifically accept his theory.

My favorite, in eastern Iowa, is Galva Atkinson, who in my mind is tough as a pump handle but has cornflower eyes.