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Example sentences for "demijohn"

Lexicographically close words:
demeure; demeurer; demie; demigod; demigods; demijohns; demilitarized; demise; demised; demission
  1. Careful to be unobserved we pulled out the demijohn and each took a drink of the mixture.

  2. He went down to Leavenworth City, a few miles away, and bought a gallon demijohn of corn whiskey, which he secretly carried into the woods back of our quarters.

  3. He represented the Christmas spirit, and his accent was Scotch, so I up-tilted his demijohn gladly enough.

  4. He was reeling homeward, with under one arm a live turkey, and swinging from the other a demijohn of claret.

  5. Having gained her point, Vaiti went off again to the schooner through the wonderful pink dusk that wraps a South Sea island at sunset, and left the captain to hold commune with his demijohn and sleep.

  6. The last item was: "To demijohn and one gallon whisky for medicine, $8.

  7. Dar wuz a ole free issue named Denson who digged ditches fer massa an' he always brung long his demijohn wid his whiskey.

  8. The demijohn was now raised to his lips; and, after several "glucks" was again taken away.

  9. Perhaps the empty demijohn was, as much as anything else, the monitor that urged their retiring to rest; though there was another and more creditable reason.

  10. After remaining quiescent for a considerable time, he once more proceeded to soliloquise--now and then changing his speech to the apostrophic form--Tara and the demijohn being the individuals honoured by his discourse.

  11. The cup was again called into requisition; and once more a portion of the contents of the demijohn were transferred to it--to be poured immediately after down the insatiable throat of the unsatisfied connoisseur.

  12. They soon reverted to the objects around him--more especially to the demijohn in the corner.

  13. Then she got out her old rifle an' shot the demijohn to smithereens, an' all she had to do was lap the whisky outa the tub.

  14. They said all right, but before they left they sent one of the grandsons to climb a big tree in the barnyard, where he tied the demijohn sixty feet from the ground.

  15. There was a two-gallon demijohn of whisky in the house.

  16. Their social value, too, was recognized, and the gourd and demijohn appeared almost simultaneously with the arrival of any guest.

  17. As evidence of goodfellowship and as an example of the spirit of generosity in the celebration of victory, he gave to each of the boys as they came in, a drink of whisky, from a clay demijohn he had concealed in the schoolroom.

  18. Yes, it is there, and not a demijohn of tafia will pass my lips until I find it!

  19. May be, the doctor was wrong about it, but the demijohn went over to the wreck in the "Swallow.

  20. When the cork was replaced, the demijohn was set down again in the "cabin," with no more danger in it for anybody.

  21. There's not a drop in the house, Gid, but there's a demijohn in the office.

  22. Ah, by a lucky chance I see that your demijohn is in here.

  23. As he uttered these memorable words, my boy, this ornament of the service plucked an infant demijohn from his fearless bosom and magnanimously passed it to his antagonist.

  24. Anquetil passed him the demijohn and exclaimed: "By gad!

  25. With another easy gesture she swung the demijohn over her arm, and, offering a tin cup to each of the men, filled them in turn.

  26. Apparently he was acting upon the same principle now, as he reached for the demijohn of whiskey with the ingenuous pleasantry, "Did somebody say whiskey, or did I dream it?

  27. Demijohn was old, but he was always dressed up like he was young, and he acted right lively.

  28. That ole Demijohn never got close enough to me to get busted on the head.

  29. John cussed, but 'lowed that Demijohn was right.

  30. Then John gits sore at the boss and at himself and at Demijohn and the whole works.

  31. That evenin', as John was leavin' to go back to the ranch, Demijohn tells him he'll see him later.

  32. So he saddles up and rides over to town to have it out with Demijohn for losin' a good job.

  33. And it come that John got to payin' more attention to Demijohn than he did to punchin' cows.

  34. I busted my ole friend Demijohn over the head,' he says to the fo'man.

  35. But he couldn't lick Demijohn right there in town nohow.

  36. But the first thing he knowed, Demijohn was a chasin' him.

  37. Then Demijohn took to pullin' at young John's sleeve and askin' him to come to town and have a good time.

  38. And we sat there, glasses in hand, and sang, while the big demijohn went around; and I was the only strictly sober one.

  39. So I would rush Spider, or Irish, or Scotty, or whoever was my crew, with the can for beer and the demijohn for red wine.

  40. The big demijohn in the stern-sheets told his errand.

  41. French Frank poured a tumbler of red wine from a big demijohn to drink to our transaction.

  42. The Englishman's long figure lounged fully dressed on a bunk; a demijohn was jammed behind his kit bag to keep it from rolling.

  43. I--that demijohn that you took last night," began the Briton nervously.

  44. The dock gave a great lurch that flattened both men against the door, juggled Caradoc in his berth and sent kit bag and demijohn sliding toward the visitors.

  45. Presently Mother thinking all secure left the house with the demijohn and proceeded to hide it.

  46. Some of the Indians had found a demijohn of liquor belonging to the Englishman and were gulping this down in great glee, while others paraded around with various spoils of war in their hands.

  47. The Indians who had been drinking from the demijohn were growing hilarious and their wild whooping could be heard for a long distance.

  48. Jake Cornell, hirsute and cadaverous of aspect, nodded his head with emphasis and deposited a corpulent demijohn on the table.

  49. Looking to his host for consent, Cornell tilted the demijohn over his arm and partly filled the four tin mugs and an empty jelly glass.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demijohn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bottle; canteen; cruet; flask; jar; jug