The legendary Salmoneus, King of Elis, made mock thunder by dragging bronzekettles behind his chariot, or by driving over a bronze bridge, while he hurled blazing torches in imitation of lightning.
We have seen that this presumptuous mortal professed to be no other than Zeus himself, and to wield the thunder and lightning, of which he made a trumpery imitation by the help of tinkling kettles and blazing torches.
Nagkalamúkat ang labábu sa mga plátu ug kaldíru, The sink is a mess with all the kettles and plates piled up in it.
From a little stream of melted snow which trickled down the hill-side our kettles were filled.
A young woman ran off to the valley with a troop of boys and girls at her heels, and filled our kettles with water.
Elmer started back to camp bearing their one bucket actually full of the most delicious honey he had ever tasted; and soon afterwards Lil Artha followed with two kettles also heavily laden with the same.
The kettles of clay became bowls of silver, the wooden dishes were scarlet shells, while the bark of the roof and the poles supporting it were transformed into some glittering substance that sparkled in the rays of the stars.
The most important trade is carried on in cast iron, for the most part consisting of kettles and water cans, and imported from South Siberia; but particularly from the manufactories in the Ural Mountains.
In the dark shade of some secluded glen, or deep ravine, a day's march nearer our border, each night their camp was pitched and kettles hung.
Then we hired (for we could get nothing without a system of bargaining as to price) two large copper kettles used to make grape molasses, and purchased two hundred pounds of beef and made a strong, rich soup.
Harris' first report to me was that he was obliged to set the soup kettles boiling, and feed his patients before medicine could be retained.
By the third day our patients seemed strong enough that we might risk food as solid as rice, and the great kettles were filled with that, cooked soft, mixed with condensed and malted milk, and their cups were filled with this.
He had felt a longing to mend the kettles of the house that once was his; but when he came to the brink of Tees his stout heart failed, and he could not cross.
A long fire was now made in the sugar house, and a row of brass kettlessuspended over the blaze.
The caravan was now in motion, and Weeko started all her ponies after the leader, while she adjusted the mule's clumsy burden of kettles and other household gear.
The family pots and kettles were divided among the pack-ponies.
The sap was collected by the women in tin or birchen buckets and poured into the canoes, from which the kettles were kept filled.
The first and most important of the necessary utensils were the huge iron and brass kettles for boiling.
Camp-kettles hacked in two were met with, and boxes of sutlers' wares smashed to fragments.
Soap was not yet the scarce and valuable commodity it was to become; there was soap enough for all and the camp kettles were filled from the stream as soon as emptied.
The cook's scepter was a wooden hook, with which she moved the kettles and ovens and lifted lids, while the restless fire scorched her amrs and face ruddier than cherry.
It affords every facility for cooking, and saves a considerable quantity of fuel; and two of the stoves to one company on the march would be far preferable to the camp-kettles now in use.
It was not, indeed, the boats that were moored there, and which had so aroused her interest yesterday, but a pretty maid, who was kneeling half way down the pier amongst her kettles and copperware.
You certainly must have seen copper kettles before and a cook polishing them.
The wine was unpacked as quickly as possible; kettles were found in the farm-house, and in a twinkling that corn-meal was mixed with water, and good gruel for the men was in the making.
She rushed to have an old chimney torn down and built fire-blocks, over which she soon had kettles full of coffee and gruel steaming.
Their house was log, said Cissy, with a fireplace where Maw had her kettles and where the whole lot of them could sit when winter nights were cold, and Paw could whittle and Maw weave a coverlet.
Thus the Indian soon lost the old arts of making their own clothing from skins, kettles from clay, weapons from stone and copper, and wampum (beads used both for ornament and money) from clam shells.
We stored it in great wooden trough, Then in bigkettles sugared off, Though often it did try our mettle To keep up fire beneath each kettle.
For it was a serious toil To cut the wood to kettles boil, To-night it is a pleasant joke, No trouble from the fire and smoke.
Do not suspend the kettles by running the bar through them.
The kettles and pots can be hung from the crossbar by means of pot hooks, which are pieces of wood or wire shaped like a letter "S.
When we went to the front Hawley left his camp kettles behind and shouldered a musket.
Wisp Brush for Greasy Pans and Kettles--A small wisp brush is better for cleaning greasy pans and kettles than the string mop you use for the dishes.
Somebody is always cutting wood to feed it; somebody is busy most of the time gathering in the sap; somebody is required to watch the kettles that they do not boil over, and to fill them.
When the water is brought up the kettles are put on to boil, and Mahomet, who is my servant, and Fisk, H.
Finally the day of Christmas Eve came, on which everything must be in readiness, pans and kettles be scoured, floors scrubbed and strewn with white sand and fresh juniper twigs, even the stables for the cattle receiving an extra scrubbing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kettles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
