tan-pits

John and Deborah Popplewell were accustomed to water in small supplies, such as that of a well, or a road-side pond, or their own old noble tan-pits; but to understand the sea it was too late in life, though it pleased them, and gave them fine appetites now to go down when it was perfectly calm, and a sailor assured them that the tide was mild.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The broken ground on which the village was built had never been levelled; so that these inclosures presented declivities of every degree, here rising like terraces, there sinking like tan-pits.

Waverley 2004

There is a living body called Aethalium septicum, which appears upon decaying vegetable substances, and, in one of its forms, is common upon the surfaces of tan-pits.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

I guided my companion safely by the edges of the tan-pits, and on arriving at the wall, I made no apology but lifted her on to it.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

There is a living body called Aethalium septicum, which appears upon decaying vegetable substances, and, in one of its forms, is common upon the surfaces of tan-pits.

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

Better to endure the drudgery of the tan-pits than to part with all purpose in life.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

But as he lay awake that night in his attic bedchamber he resolved that this should be his last week's work in Messer Hugolin's tan-pits.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

It occupied extensive yards along the river-front, and Constans entered upon the agreeable occupation of unloading stinking hides from the barges which came down from the upper river twice in the week, a routine varied only by long hours of pounding at interminable lengths of white-oak bark, preparing it for use in the tan-pits.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

He guided me carefully among the tan-pits – those deep fosses of abomination, with a slender network of pathways thrown between – until we reached the lower end of the yard.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

Jael sat down in the shed, or marched restlessly between the tan-pits.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897