What is "hydrant"

Usage examples of "hydrant".

In some ways the fire was well located: at the back of the Tech Area, away from the gas stocks, cyclotron and particle accelerator, near the fire station and close to hydrants.

With a trace ofboyish bad temper Eccles pulls over and stops in front of a fire hydrant.

He made a whoooping dash across the sidewalk, over a fire hydrant, and skittered around a white Eldorado pimpmobile, where he hid.

He fired two shots at Lo Manto, the first smashing through the side window of a parked VW Beetle, the second pinging off the bottom end of a fire hydrant.

The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants.

But Debs just clamped her jaw tight and squealed around the truck and through the intersection, ignoring the horns and the fountain of water from the ruptured hydrant, and closing the gap again in the next block.

As an added incentive for the dogs, the police sergeant at Lejeune had built and presented as a going-away present four large wooden fire hydrants painted bright red.

With a trace ofboyish bad temper Eccles pulls over and stops in front of a fire hydrant.

They were accorded a disproportionate amount of courtesy by local policeman, who ignored cars parked in front of fire hydrants or even on the sidewalk.

Hydrants, telephone booths, public televisors and even a small cigar store already stood in this subterranean area dug only within the last few weeks.

Some bunch of sweat-stinking kids get a hydrant spouting and it drenches the storefront of a shylock who lives most of his time in Kipps Bay when he’s not sticking it to his Spanish Harlem customers, and he comes out of the pawnshop with a Louisville Slugger somebody hocked once, and he takes a swing at a mestizo urchin, and the next thi ng the precinc t k nows, they’ve got a three-star riot going on two full city blocks.

The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants.

I carried it outside, screwed it on to a standing plug and turned the tap on full: the results in the way of volume and pressure would have done justice to any city hydrant.

Shouting, gesticulating figures were supervising the unrolling of hoses, the coupling-up of hydrants, the relays of men carrying extinguishers and buckets of sand.

The house O'Shea or O'Shame, Quivapieno, known as the Haunted Inkbottle, no number Brimstone Walk, Asia in Ireland, as it was infested with the raps, with his penname SHUT sepiascraped on the doorplate and a blind of black sailcloth over its wan phwinshogue, in which the soulcontracted son of the secret cell groped through life at the expense of the taxpayers, dejected into day and night with jesuit bark and bitter bite, calico hydrants of zolfor and scoppialamina by full and forty Queasisanos, every day in everyone's way more exceeding in violent abuse of self and others, was the worst, it is hoped, even in our western playboyish world for pure mousefarm filth.