The Gourd tribe is capable, if properly used, of adding much remarkable beauty and character to [Illustration: Young Conifers and hardy fine-leaved Plants.
Of course the climate of New England is much better suited for fully developing the gourd tribe than ours, but it is satisfactory to know that they may be readily and beautifully grown in this country.
Mr. Cushing suggests that water-tight osiery, once known, however difficult of manufacture, would displace the general use of gourd vessels.
While the gourd was large and convenient in form, it was difficult of transportation, owing to its fragility.
While the growth of the gourd was restricted to limited areas, the materials for basketry were anywhere at hand.
Of this there is evidence among the Zunis, in the shape of a series of rudely encased gourd vessels into which the sacred water is said to have been transferred from the tubes.
He finally reached the bank; and then we discovered that the gourd had slipped down under his chin, and turned completely around, with the holes at the back of his head, in which position it was stuck fast.
Taking with him a long bag, he entered the water, until nothing was seen but the gourd on his head.
Then the peculiar bobbing motion of the gourd was imitated so exactly, that the wily hunter easily approached near enough to the birds to seize them by the feet and drag them suddenly under the water.
But the next day He prepared a worm to smite the gourd and wither it; and I feel it is better to die than to live!
Yes, He prepared a gourd to shade me, and like the prophet I thanked Him and was glad.
He proved to be--not Jacob or her father, but the old Molimo, who stood beside her holding in his hand a gourd filled with goat's milk.
So she took the gourd and drank to the last drop, for it seemed to her that she had never tasted anything so delicious.
Yes, yes, a tree which must ascend, No poison-gourd foredoomed to stoop!
The Kayan war-dance is not danced (as is the Dyak) to a lively measure of gongs and drums, a wind instrument being used constructed out of a gourd and three short pieces of bamboo.
Finally, after placing this gourd on the leaves which served as a tablecloth, the servant broke off a large branch of apricots, covered with flowers and fruit, and stuck it into the earth in the midst of the leaves.
The chevalier was disturbed as to how he was to drink, for he had a burning thirst, but he quickly saw the servant returning with a large gourd filled with a pink and limpid liquor.
After disembarrassing himself of his belt and gun, Rend-your-Soul extended himself on the ground, drew a gourd hidden under the fresh leaves, and drank some brandy as a preparation for dinner.
Croustillac frequently quenched his thirst, as did his companions, from the gourd of maple sugar, and he finished his repast by eating half a dozen apricots of wonderful fragrance and very superior to the European species.
On a low shelf stood a great piggin of water, a fat yellow drinking gourd sticking out of it.
He drank long and greedily from the gourd dipper, so long that Sally Madeira turned to him laughingly at last.
He carried with him a gourddecorated with bells and two feathers, one white and the other red.
This gourd he sent before him by messengers as a symbol of authority and to command obedience, as he had seen successfully done in the western part of Texas, when in company with Cabeza de Vaca.
It was followed by the weird sound of tom-toms and the gourd and skin drums of the natives.
A small gourd is nearly filled with the powdered herb, and then boiling water is poured in to fill the cup.
Now, as soon as the tea has been sucked out the tea-maker fills the gourd once more with hot water, and passes it to the next person in the group, and so on.
The one gourd and the one tube must serve for all the company.
In their hands they carry gourd bottles, painted in various gay colors, and containing dried seeds.
The pouch contains a supply of coca leaves, and the gourd is filled with pulverised unslaked lime.
I think he is as full of guile as a new-filled gourd with water.
Baas," broke in Hans, "don't tell me that things are so and that we are really alive in what your honoured father used to call this gourdfull of tears.
I give and bequeath my large carved drinking gourd to my good comrade Topo.
But never heed his leaky gourd nor its contents, my lord.
Without daring to lift up his eyes or look around, he at times stretched out his hand, clutched a gourd full of spirits and took a sip.
His father, snatching up a loaf of bread and a gourd of wine, started at once with him.
A voice was heard from above, commanding them to clear the way, and a huge gourd was hurled down, rolling to the very edge of the stream.
The gourd was slung by a cord, which Arthur himself placed over his shoulders, and filled with the fresh water for their friends.
Sometimes they imitate the plump of rain by smacking the surface of the water with their hands, or by placing an inverted gourd on it and drumming on the gourd with their fingers.
And it is as unwise to mourn over the decay of those institutions--the change of human forms--as it was unwise in Jonah to mourn with that passionate sorrow over the decay of the gourd which had sheltered him from the heat of the noontide sun.
I produced some fine scales I had for weighing chemicals for my photographic work, and suspended these above a gourd filled with water.
Next I raised the gourd until the water reached the suspended ball, causing the opposite pan of the scales to go down.
The next time I woke up I saw an old woman leaning over me and holding in her hand a gourd containing some chicken-broth which I swallowed slowly, not feeling the cravings of hunger, in fact not knowing whether I was dead or alive.
Again he leaped high and the gourd sounded like a nest of angry rattlesnakes as he shook it.
You, Veena, bring a basket of fruit and a gourd of honey and crushed grapes for my friend the great Chief Wabiti.
Dick command and the next instant a gourd of water was put to his lips and Dan gulped it eagerly.
Wabiti, rising with a gourd full of the honey drink.
In one hand he brandished a long stone knife, in the other he held the painted gourd filled with pebbles, which he rattled menacingly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gourd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
