All kinds of tubs and firkins should be turned down on the cellar floor, to prevent them from leaking.
In the morning the apple-sauce will be of a fine red color, and must then be put away in firkins or stone jars.
And our Translators of the Bible too have given occasion to suspect somewhat of Excess at this Wedding; or they need not have made the Waterpots to hold two or three Firkins apiece.
Now, as he looks around the overflowing room, where butter firkins crowd the calicoes and crockery, and where hams and saddles swing sociably from the same rafter, as far as his knowledge goes, this is the only store in the universe.
Then to make forty or fifty firkins during the summer and fall and to get as good a price for it made the farmer's heart glad.
The packing into one-hundred-pound firkins to be held over till November did not begin till the cows were turned out to pasture in May.
It was the event of the fall: two loads of butter, of twenty or more firkins each, to be transported fifty miles in a lumber wagon, each round trip taking about four days.
He would begin the day before Father was to start and have a load headed and placed in the wagon on time, with straw between the firkins so they would not rub.
My mother made most of the butter for nearly forty years, packing thousands of tubs and firkins of it in that time.
I'm so tired of hogsheads; mayn't it be firkins this time?
And, for fancy's sake, firkins Miss Quincey permitted it to be.
Faith, we'll not touch him or his firkins ayether!
I hung behind, at the Corners, till the wagon had begun the ascent of the hill, and the looming bulk of the firkins made it impossible that Hurley could see which way I went.
He had had word that we were coming, and the firkins were ready for us.
About six inches of butter of each churning will be quite sufficient, and in a large dairy two or more firkins can be gradually but simultaneously filled.
New firkins often communicate a disagreeable odour to the butter.
Landed some three score firkins of butter, sold as determined.
But his heavy wheel-barrow had no horse but himself, and the overflowing firkins were a load for him, particularly when, as was often the case, he was as full as his firkins.
His whole stock in trade consisted of two large firkins on a rough wheel-barrow, to transport the waste that he went from house to house collecting.
The firkins were first deposited upon the deck, and then lowered down the main hatchway.
TO BE SOLD By Mary Jackson & Son, At the Brazen-Head in Cornhill, A few Firkins of good Butter, at 4s.
Follower; "saw you not that the firkins were stamped with the thrice excellent Grand Butler's own inviolable seal, and set apart for the private use of his Imperial Majesty's most sacred lips?
As for the wine, Lord Crawford will get but three firkins for his hogshead; but if his rascals choose to play highwaymen upon a peaceful convoy, that is his look-out.
Meantime order out three of the pack-nags, and tell the cellarer to fetch up six firkins of the sack sent down to me last Thursday by Mr Trenchard.
Mr. Firkins suggests the obvious but satisfying answer--New York itself is his triumph.
So all I can tell you is this, that Mr. Firkins is to my mind one of the half-dozen most sparkling critics in this country.
Mr. Firkins is professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and a contributing editor of The Weekly Review, in which this essay first appeared in September, 1919.
The difference between the two migrations is, simply, that though the nobleman affects the plainness of the city, he would not for the world be taken for a citizen; while the junior partner of the house of Firkins and Co.
There is an aristocracy in the city, of course, and Firkins will do business with twenty persons in a day whom he could never introduce to Mrs. Firkins.
And away you go, Firkins amusing himself the whole way from Hampstead to Richmond, imagining the consternation of his cook and butler when nobody comes to dine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firkins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
