"Water pipe" Quotes from Famous Books
... myself sleepy over a novel of Lord Lytton's, when a small sound disturbed me. I listened. The sound was clearly that of water trickling; and I set it down to rain. A shower (I told myself) had filled the water-pipes which drained the roof. Somehow I could not fix the sound. There was a water pipe against the wall just outside my window. I rose ... — Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch |