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Example sentences for "pothooks"

Lexicographically close words:
pothecary; potheen; pother; potherb; potholes; pothouse; potion; potions; potissimum; potitus
  1. And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, pothooks and shovels.

  2. And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass, cauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans.

  3. At the outset, his pothooks are very unlike the model set before him.

  4. He learns by imitation; but it is only because he has already some rudimentary ability to make such simple figures as pothooks that the imitative process can get a start.

  5. But they regarded these pothooks as a clumsy waste of time.

  6. His fond mother gives him a box of coloured chalks and every loose bit of paper is rapidly covered with strange pothooks and scrawls which represent houses and horses and terrible naval battles.

  7. The crane was a feature of the fireplace, and on it were hung the pothooks from which depended the iron and brass pots in which food was cooked.

  8. Gibcrokes and recons were local and less frequent names, and the folks who in their dialect called the lug-pole a gallows-balke called the pothooks gallows-crooks.

  9. Its picture plainly shows the stone ledges within the fireplace, the curved iron lug-pole, and hanging pothooks and trammels.

  10. On the pothooks and trammels hung what formed in some households the costliest house-furnishing,--the pots and kettles.

  11. That was all he said or thought; but Bill went quietly back to his wet resting-place, and slept with a clear conscience, and dreamed of pothooks and Polly.

  12. They have learned their A, B, C and pothooks together, and when the time comes for pairing off they have had excellent opportunities of knowing the qualities and the defects of those whom they select as their partners in life.

  13. You are too old to write pothooks and hangers, and too old, alas, to steal pickles and jam when the house is abed.

  14. And I 've forgotten all about the pothooks already.

  15. Have you been bothered by pothooks lately?


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    Other words:
    scratch; scrawl; scribble