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Example sentences for "pots"

Lexicographically close words:
potpie; potpourri; potrebbe; potro; potry; potsherd; potsherds; pottage; potte; potted
  1. Flying through the long, dark corridor of the old hall, and passing through several lofty and empty old rooms, she emerged at last in the sunny bay-window where her grandfather dozed daily, surrounded by pots of fragrant roses and geraniums.

  2. Old Dinah crooned her quaint revival hymns in the sunny doorway of the kitchen, and her old master dozed in the bright, bay-window among the pots of fragrant flowers.

  3. She is after her pots and pans as usual," said John.

  4. There were two buckets and a couple of watering-pots there, and I shouted to the other men to come to me, as I filled two of the vessels and ran round to the back of the house.

  5. Lynn's arms were full of wild crab-apple blooms, which he had taken a long walk to find, and Iris had two little pots of preserves as her contribution to the feast.

  6. I heard the clatter of pots and pans in the pantry below.

  7. There came to our ears not a sound, not even the barking of a dog or the rattle of pots and pans.

  8. I passed through the kitchen where the pots and pans hung in order from pins, all of them bright and shining.

  9. Or ever your pots be made hot with thorns: so let indignation vex him, even as a thing that is raw.

  10. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the water-pots with water.

  11. And there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

  12. The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.

  13. The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

  14. Defn: A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.

  15. Defn: A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

  16. A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.

  17. And they told him how that all the furniture was thrown down, and all the kitchen pots had been broken.

  18. When pots and kettles are thought to have souls that live hereafter, there is no difficulty in understanding how the blue sky can have been regarded as the sire of gods and men.

  19. Happy Jack took charge of the pots and pans, with the whole Happy Family to help him hurry supper, while Jakie forgot his woes in sleep and the sun set upon a quiet camp.

  20. Also the pots can be protected from many of the untoward experiences that are likely to befall the crops in the open field.

  21. Yet it must be remembered that Davy (1859) had treated pea plants in pots with a saturated solution of arsenious acid for a short time and had stated that the plants were uninjured.

  22. The plants were grown in pots on soil which originally contained a certain amount of the substance, and various combinations of arsenic acid, arsenious acid and superphosphate were added.

  23. On the whole the plants from untreated pots were as good as any with manganese except those that received manganese nitrate or phosphate.

  24. Namba (1908) applied manganese salts to onion plants in pots with a considerable measure of success.

  25. Twenty wheat seeds were sown in each pot, and after twelve days the healthy plants in the first four pots were 6–8 cm.

  26. With care this disadvantage is easily overcome as it is possible to weigh the pots regularly and to make up the evaporation loss by the addition of water.

  27. He grew peas in pots and watered them for a short time with a saturated aqueous solution of arsenious acid, the application being then discontinued.

  28. Various soluble and insoluble salts of manganese were added to soil in pots at the rate of 2 cwt.

  29. There were breweries at Staffordshire before there were potteries, but now the potters made jugs and pots for the brewers.

  30. Thomas Wedgwood, the father of Josiah, was a potter who made butter-pots and owned a little pottery that stood in the yard behind the house.

  31. Both girls and boys used to feast on them for whole days at a time, and there were always enough left for pots and pots full of jam.

  32. Mäzli ran to her table at last and when she found a perfect array of shining copper kettles, cooking pans and pots in her box she forgot completely about the horses.

  33. But it soon came to pass that Mrs. Dorcas's pots and kettles were all prepared to hang on the trammels when Grandma's were, and an army of cakes and pies marshaled to go in the oven when Grandma had proposed to do some baking.

  34. What hast thou there under thy pots and pans?

  35. Salad dishes of sparkling crystal bound with silver ornamented the sideboard, while various earthen pots and pans of humbler make stood on a curiously designed stove under whose polished top no fire had ever burned.

  36. In a niche a devotional image of the Mater Dolorosa, before it pots of flowers.

  37. Every autumn she made a sufficient number of pots of it to last discreet appetites a whole year.

  38. But this year, so early as Easter, there were only two pots left.

  39. Once again the pots seethed and frothed and again came forth the overflow of half-cooked rice, still swelling, from four interminable geysers.

  40. Dully the Cholo beat at it with an iron spoon and the Leccos grinned at him as they filled their little pots with the overflow.

  41. Their windows were jammed with heads and clawing arms exchanging or accepting dripping foods wrapped in platano leaves, bottles of checha, or earthen pots containing Heaven knows what.

  42. The original Cholo cook--who was good for nothing--kept up one long fire on which the row of pots simmered.

  43. It was broad daylight when we came in sight of the hut again, and I perceived Jaap was up and busy with his pots and kettles near the spring.

  44. She forestalled Burnamy's reproaches for her delay, laughing and bridling, while she set down the dishes of ham and tongue and egg, and the little pots of coffee and frothed milk.

  45. Or those preposterous maidens sprinkling linen on the grass from watering-pots while the skies were full of rain?

  46. A bucket of water, dexterously applied by the coachman, quenched the blazing petticoats, and somewhat allayed the fiery heart of the scullion; who retreated behind a pile of pots and kettles.

  47. Therefore, we provided as much canvas as would cover the boat twice over, and as much pitch, tar and tallow, as would make it a kind of tarpaulin; as also earthen pots in which to melt our materials.


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