Throw him in and trust the crocks to leave no trace!
In you go among the crocks if you don't sit down at once!
All the Italian pottery above the level of common crocks may be conveniently grouped into four classes.
Another time a load of butter in wooden crocks tipped over and the crocks rolled down people's lawns.
The milk house had shelves all up in it and when you milked the cows the pans and bowls and crocks were put up on the shelves.
There was eleven crocks of sweet milk larger than a waterbucket.
A layer of rough fibry material should be placed over the crocks to prevent the finer soil from stopping the drainage.
Nancy had slyly filled three earthenware crockswith water from the well, and had set them on the table, mumbling something about the kettle and the morning.
However, the crocks set off again, the rearguard came up, passed us in camp, and then on the march about 3 miles on, so that they camped about the same time.
To-day we closed less than usual, so that the crocks must have been going very well.
The crocks have done wonderfully, so there is really no saying how long or well the fitter animals may go.
Nevertheless they came through pretty well, the strong ones excellently, but the crocks had had enough at 9 1/2 miles.
With the seven crocks and the dog teams we must get through I think.
We reached the lunch camp together and started therefrom in the same order, the two crocks somewhat behind, but not more than 300 yards at the finish, so we all got into camp very satisfactorily together.
With the sevencrocks and the dog teams we must get through, I think.
But although the two crocks had not been given their usual start, they stuck to their work so gallantly that at the finish they were less than a quarter of a mile behind.
Nevertheless the stronger ponies continued to pull excellently, and even the poor old crocks succeeded in covering 9-1/2 miles.
To-day we closed less than usual, so the crocks must have been going very well.
Brown butter-crocks were absolutely out of the question!
And now, instead of making brown butter-crocks and stone jugs all of the time, he was experimenting in glazes.
Then the table with the three crocks was brought into the middle of the room.
Three crocks stood on a side table, and baskets filled with apples, walnuts, chestnuts, and fresh filberts were placed about the room.
Place a layer of broken crocks two inches thick at the bottom of the pot; then fill up within half an inch of the rim with the compost, passed through a fine seive.
If the pots are full of strong, healthy roots, pick out the crockscarefully without injuring them, leaving the ball entire, and giving them a good shift.
The kidneys sufficed for two or three crocks of barley.
You may often see him under the hedge mending shoes; where, if you are sharp enough, you may catch him and make him give up the big crocks of gold, of which the little miser has saved many and many.
Another man I knew of had a dream of a place where there was three crocks of gold.
A Neighbour: There's crocksof gold in all the forths, but there's cats and things guarding them.
And in the morning he went to dig and found the crocks sure enough, and nothing in them but oyster shells.
With the large number of cows they were milking many receptacles were needed and John had got those pans because they were lighter to handle than the heavy stone crocks used by most farmers' wives.
Crocks of golden butter and creamy cottage cheese made a formidable bulwark of richly laden earthenware in one corner, while a phalanx of ice cream freezers stood guard beside the kitchen door.
Whichever of these you use must have a few holes in it, then some broken crocks for drainage, and then the compost made of leaf-mould, loam, and silver sand.
He himself took the two crocks of water, carried them into the first of his rooms, in which were many pots of flowers, and returned to speak to the gardener, carefully closing the door behind him.
Suddenly, however, as if reproaching himself for lost time, he seized his crocks and hastily entered the house.
So a new plan was adopted, and tin pans were put upside down over the crocks to keep the nightly visitor out.
The foremost waggon was always hung round with crocks and kettles like a tinker’s caravan, and to this the three or four women who were to accompany the men would mount.
The story reassured him: Some native workmen, belonging to the camp, had come across a number of terra-cotta crocks hidden under a flight of steps.
Were her fast-moving camels bearing her to the crocks of fine gold and the wealth of jewels which the hermit of el-Azhar had visualized?
The crocks were full of blocks of Nubian gold; the jewels were in caskets which had fallen to pieces, even before his eyes, when the winds of the desert had reached them.
The coachman and inside man sealed the crocks and tins, prepared and forwarded the packages.
Mrs. Crocks saw Pearl when she brought him in, and she could get nothing out of her.
Mrs. Crocks was easily the best informed person regarding local happenings, in the small town of Millford.
Mrs. Crocks had a copy of the paper in her hands at six-fifteen.
But even though the livery stable happenings as related by Bertie gave Mrs. Crocks many avenues of information, all of her prescience could not be explained through that or any other human agency.
You put your foot in it, Pearl my young lady, when you rubbed Jane Crocks the wrong way, for people cannot do that and get away with it!
Mrs. Crocks says she believes Pearl is pretty sweet on the Doctor.
When Pearl walked away, Mrs. Crocks looked after her with a look of uncertainty on her face.
Pearl is one swell girl, and all that, but Mrs. Crocks says the Doctor will likely marry the Senator's daughter.
Mrs. Crocksas usual had made a good choice, for as Bertie talked all the time, he was sure to say something once in a while.
Mr. Crocks says there'll be storm, and he won't take no chances on his horses.
Mrs. Burns afterwards told Mrs. Crocks that "Doctor Clay can be very light at times, and it seems hardly the thing, considering his profession.
Sure they did," said Bertie honestly, "but Mrs. Crocks likes me to talk.
Sand and crushed crocks or potsherds are used by many for mixing with the potting material, but they may easily be dispensed with, or used only in very small quantities.
Care should be taken to use the pots and crocks in a thoroughly clean condition.
Broken crocks are generally used for drainage, although they are not now placed in the pots to the depth of one-half or more, as they used to be.
The species of Microstylis should be grown as terrestrial Orchids in Sphagnum-moss and peat, with fine crocks added.
Some good growers use loam fibre with a sprinkling of leaves and broken crocks entirely for Cypripedium insigne and others of the green-leafed class, and also for Calanthes, Phaius, Zygopetalums, and other plants.
Bracken rhizomes have been used with advantage instead of crocks to form drainage for Odontoglossums, and some growers like it so much for that purpose that the horticultural sundriesmen supply it sterilised in bags.
They have been grown successfully in a compost in which decayed leaves formed the principal ingredient, the remainder being either Sphagnum-moss, loam fibre, or peat, with a little sand or fine crocks added.
These should be potted in peat, Sphagnum-moss, and loam fibre in equal proportions, with a sprinkling of leaves, and fine broken crocks added.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
