| 单词 | hogshead |
| 例句 | Arriving at a bend in the embankment, we entered into the first warehouse there, a storehouse for some chandlery, and began setting it to flames, touching our brands to cordage and hogsheads. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Wine flowed from hogsheads like water from a fountain, and at each meal fish, fowl, and a joint of beef were served. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Pigeons, arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one above another, until solid masses as large as hogsheads were formed on the branches all round. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Twelve seconds after this is accomplished, she has pointed the hogshead in Jack's direction and seven seconds after that they're boning each other in his bachelor pad. World Of Lather: a month in soap 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it! Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn't enough 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z “There’s records of men getting stuck, bailing out, losing hogshead of tobacco. I mean it was not an easy journey.” The newest way to float down the James River is 200 years old 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In one year, the aforementioned four counties produced more than 11,000 hogsheads of sugar. Bones that revealed a Texas town's forgotten racial past deserve respect 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Besides this product the remains of five hogsheads of fish will produce one tun of pumice or fish guano, the best fertilizer known, and worth by itself $20 per tun.” The Fight over Abortion Heats Up, 1969; The Price of Helium, 1919 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z A hogshead cask holds up to 250 litres of spirit, while a butt contains up to 500 litres. Rare whisky collection 'may be for sale' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z When the house was built in 1856, an enormous hogshead that was shipped to Topeka from New Orleans was placed inside its cellar. Secret network in Kansas helped blacks escape slavery 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Using a hand-operated No. 3 home meat grinder and her mother’s recipes, Savoie began making smoked sausage, boudin and hogshead cheese and selling them in her grocery store. Iconic Cajun food company celebrates 60 years 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Thus if one should be fettered hand and foot and placed under an inverted hogshead watched by guards, he would disappear until it pleased him to return. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Every two hogsheads will yield one barrel of fish oil worth in the market $22.50 per barrel, the oil being used in currying leather and for mixing with other fish and lubricating oils. The Fight over Abortion Heats Up, 1969; The Price of Helium, 1919 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Twenty hogsheads of cider have been made from an acre of orchard, twelve being the ordinary yield. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The hogshead - a cask that could hold several hundred gallons - was used as a hiding place for runaway slaves on their way to the Canadian border. Secret network in Kansas helped blacks escape slavery 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The Tobacco Warehouse occupies no less than five acres of ground, and has accommodation for 24,000 hogsheads of tobacco. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z At Bristol the tide filled the merchants’ cellars, spoiling 1,000 hogsheads of sugar, 1,500 hogsheads of tobacco, and any quantity of other produce, the damage being estimated at £100,000. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z On the 12th of October 80 hogsheads of herrings were taken at one haul, and 30 hogsheads two tides before. The Fight over Abortion Heats Up, 1969; The Price of Helium, 1919 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z The quantity, according to some divines, was not less than two or three hogsheads of intoxicating drink, enough to last the balance of the week. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The New English Dictionary does not attempt any explanation of the term, and takes “hogshead” as the original form, from which the forms in other languages have been corrupted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z In Virginia he had been a trader in tobacco, so that the transition from snuff to tobacco, and from tobacco to a hogshead seemed to be natural. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The pulpit, "about the size of a hogshead," was built on a single pillar, against the wall; above this was a sounding board. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z The good will and national pride of ship captains were enlisted; even young trees of considerable size were set in hogsheads, and transported, and cared for during the long voyage. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z He fell over the edge of the hogshead, and hung there limp and lifeless. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z So strong was he physically that when two hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing a thousand pounds, were lying on their sides, he could raise them both upright at once. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Lastly, a good quantity of Cognac brandy, both in hogsheads and rundlets, single and double, the double being 8, the single 4 gallons. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z A few days later a hogshead of cider was broached at Gunston Hall, and a liberal sample was sent to Washington. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z A hogshead of rain-water stood at the cellar door, and one at the end of the barn—to water the flowers with—they fancied rotten rain-water made flowers grow! Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At one side stood a big hogshead nearly full of loose excelsior, used for packing. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z At prearranged turnings, barriers were to be thrown up, constructed of carts, doors, hogsheads. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The average sugar crop of the whole state, is now about 180,000 hogsheads. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z "I'll get you a sugar hogshead in no time;" and away he ran on the mission. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z On each side of the door are huge stacks of staves, piled up in a very uniform manner, used for making hogsheads or tierces for packing sugar, or puncheons for the conveyance of rum. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Cohen reached in his pocket, but very quickly drew out his hand again empty, to point it excitedly at the hogshead with the sharp cry. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z They are evidently intended for sugar hogsheads; they are done up in separate packets. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The entire crop did not then exceed 500 hogsheads. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z The railroad stations at the villages where we stopped were crowded with hogsheads of sugar and molasses, ready to be sent to Havana, and shipped from there to foreign seaports. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z It was customary to sell them upon hogsheads, which I shall have further occasion to mention when I come to treat of the white inhabitants. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Leaping its rim, Ralph sank as in a snowbank, ducked down his head, pulled the stringy wooden fiber over it, and snuggled inside the hogshead, out of view. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z However, with such a supply as these hogsheads would hold, we could do without the stream for weeks. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z It was a small low building of one story, surrounded by hogsheads of gravel and sand, on which small pieces of ordnance were mounted for its defence. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z The loaded vessel he brought home, and the governor, calling a court, condemned it as a derelict, and divided the plunder with Teach, receiving sixty hogsheads of sugar as his dividend, and his secretary twenty. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z An ox was roasted whole, and three hogsheads of beer distributed to the poor inhabitants; while a splendid entertainment was provided for the governor and the gentry of the island, at the public expense. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Ike had lifted himself to the edge of the hogshead and perched there, his feet dangling and beating a tattoo on the staves with his heels. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z The hogsheads were put together and filled with water, and a couple of hundred boarding-pikes were put ashore for the use of the negroes. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Two hogsheads and eight barrels of slush or beer were standing ready for distillation, with a part of one barrel of molasses. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z In rummaging the sloop, the connivance of the governor was detected; the secretary, falling sick with fear, died in a few days, and the governor was compelled to refund the hogsheads. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z In one part are hogsheads of salt cod, herrings, and other salted fish; bins of Indian corn, rice, peas, and salt; flour, tobacco, barrels of blacking, and kegs of lard. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z None presented, for the boxes lay flat on the floor, and the hogshead was away from the side wall. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z A week afterwards she takes public occasion to rejoice at his triumphs by furnishing a bonfire and ten hogsheads of strong beer and all the music she could procure. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z At the summit of the picture Bacchus and Silenus wave wine-glasses while respectively standing and sitting on hogsheads. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Another task was to take a hogshead of hams, put each ham in bagging, and sew it up. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z Here is beer in hogsheads and wine by the cask! The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z He thrust his arm down into the hogshead. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z At length a steady southwesterly breeze sprang up, and, with barely a hogshead of biscuit and a gallon of water aboard, the Golden Hope came in sight of Poole Harbour. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z Poussin's Bacchanalian festivities are still for the mirth of a world whence Bacchus has fled; but the god enthroned on hogsheads is not mistaken for Bacchus now: Bacchus was stronger than Cruikshank. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z We imported about ninety-six thousand hogsheads, and the home consumption was not supposed to extend fourteen thousand. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z “Son,” said Claes, “he that would pour a hogshead into a keg would throw his beer into the gutter.” The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Ralph leaned a hand on the hogshead rim to get purchase for a leap out of his difficulties. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z The number of hogsheads packed for export every year varies considerably, but the yearly produce averages from 20,000 to 30,000 hogsheads. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Is it your custom to drink brandy by the hogshead? A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Fifty thousand hogsheads of raw sugar are annually wrought in this Republic, and exported at a great profit to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, and Italy. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z “You will then be wise to pour your keg into my hogshead, for I am bigger than your tankard,” replied Ulenspiegel. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z The hogshead in which Ralph had ensconced himself was made of loose, defective staves. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z This object is in form of a large hogshead, some eight or ten feet high, made of planks and hoops.... Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z As he passed my seat while leaving the car he whispered to me: “Bob Toombs! his brain is as big as a barrel and his heart is as big as a hogshead.” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z If I wanted it, I could order a hogshead of it just by a scratch of the pen. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z Thus the townsfolk would have time to ring their bells, to make ready fireworks, to put the meats in the oven, and to broach the hogsheads. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Pursuing the search with Topcliffe, he counted thirty-six hogsheads and casks of various sizes, all of which were afterwards found to be filled with powder. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z In the center of the open space stands the sacred object, "in form of a large hogshead." Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z I can conceive that infected air can be barrelled up, not in a hogshead of rum, nor perhaps sucre, but in a barrel of coffee. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z This process of ablution was practiced with such zeal upon their own craft and transient passers-by, that a hogshead of rum was drawn in a short time, running in brooks over the floor. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z We press the tobacco in hogsheads, you know, and we call it prizing. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z Three or four more questions, and a hogshead of profanity on the Major's part, and I had the whole story. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Pipe smoking and chewing tobacco leaf is usually packed in hogsheads or cases each weighing from 1,000 to 1,400 lbs. Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers 2011-09-12T02:00:31.107Z This implement for marking cattle or hogsheads with the initials R L N came to light in the ruins of the First State House. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z Then it is poured into wooden coolers; last of all, when it is quite cold, it is placed in hogsheads with holes in the bottom. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z In the rear were the vaults, in which were many hogsheads full of wine made from the grapes grown on the place. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z And the ball was as big as a hogshead. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z His scheme was to construct pipe-staves and hogsheads and barrel boards, and to transport them to the wine growers of Spain and France. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z The annual export, as already intimated, is considerably over sixty thousand hogsheads. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z In others, the liquid is given to any who will take it away, though in doing so, they are expected to pay something more than its real value for the hogshead. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z There were steps leading to the roof, too, so when it rained or snowed the water could run into a hogshead in the yard instead of on my neighbor’s sidewalk 355 or head. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z These were formed principally of casks, &c., filled with earth; and I am not sure that some sugar hogsheads were not used on the occasion. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z Rolling-roads were narrow roads cut through the woods over which hogsheads of tobacco fitted with axles could be rolled or drawn. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z Thirty thousand acres of sugar-cane are cut annually, yielding, according to late statistics, about seventy thousand hogsheads of sugar. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z "I think that these relics of humanity might be transported to Auchimachie in a hogshead of cognac, much as the others were." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z There’s floors upon floors beneath, stored with jute and dye-woods, teas, coffees, spices, tobaccos, and lowest of all on the ground floor and in the cellarage, tallows in great hogsheads. Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z He planted vineyards all about-- For, trust me, Noah was no lout; Built cellars then, and pressed the wine, And tunned it into hogsheads fine. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z In The Coopers, the children, who form the barrels or hogshead, stand back to front in a circle, each taking hold of the waist of the one before him. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z At this time the Empress of Germany had several hundred attendants, received two hogsheads of Tokay, daily, for her parrots, and twelve barrels of wine for her baths! A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z It was all gone by the time the hogshead reached Auchimachie. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Bobbins and I are going to let them off in a big hogshead he’s found behind the stable.” Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z The apples are gradually introduced into the trough, and a quantity may be thus mashed equal to a hogshead of cider in the day. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z The longest go to the West Indies for sugar hogsheads, and some of the next are for tacking round pipes of wine. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z There was a barrel standing in one corner; in another corner was a large hogshead reaching almost to the ceiling, and the butcher said that both of these were full of meat. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z I feel as though you were some one in a hogshead looking through the bunghole at me.” Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z To get water to wash the clothes, they had a great enormous hogshead at the corner of the house. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z From twenty-four to thirty gallons are required to fill the provincial hogshead of one hundred and ten gallons. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z “Sir,” I replied, “there is a time for all things: I would not at present give a pint of water for an hogshead of wine.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He told the giant that he wanted a piece of meat that lay in the bottom of the large hogshead of pickle in the other corner. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z I could suck up half a hogshead easily. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z And when it rained, the rain fell on the roof, and ran down the roof to the gutter, and ran down the gutter to the spout, and ran down the spout to the hogshead. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z Proposals were made to smuggle the prisoner to the United States in a Danish merchant vessel, in which, in case of search, he was to be barrelled in a hogshead perforated with breathing holes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Would that they had brought a few hogsheads of our Devonshire cider with them. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z He asked the giant to get it for him, as the hogshead was so high that neither he nor the butcher could reach down into it. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z Its boiler had a capacity of “five or six hogsheads,” and the receiver, “holding one hogshead,” was filled and emptied four times a minute. A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine 2011-04-21T02:00:53.240Z But when it had not rained for a long time, there was no water in the hogshead. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z The record year, however, was 1893, when the entire crop of forty hogsheads, or over a thousand dozen, of the wine realised a price which recouped all the expenses incurred during the previous eighteen years. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Soon hogsheads of tobacco were being rolled off his wharf for shipment to England, which rewarded him for his thrifty work. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z The giant bent far into the hogshead and began groping for the meat at the bottom. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z I bought afterwards six hogsheads of rum of these privateers, for I found they were very well stored with liquors, whatever else they wanted. A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before 2011-04-07T02:00:17.607Z The water was in big hogsheads, down near the bottom of the ship. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z I like fat old Preston King very much—he is fat as a hogshead, with great hanging chops. The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion 2011-04-01T02:00:42.513Z Very soon a small stream of clear amber juice ran down a trough and into a large hogshead. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z Saint Nicholas took a large bone that lay on the floor, and standing on a box beside the hogshead he struck the giant a powerful blow on the head. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z To accomplish his object, he took twenty steers to draw down the iron doors of the vault in which the hogsheads were deposited. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z And they took all the hogsheads of water and emptied out what water was left. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z Suppose you challenge in a glass, Sweet Doll, my pretty Doe; And think your love could mine surpass, I'd swallow hogsheads, for my lass, All's one to Tallyho. Fontainbleau 2011-03-30T02:00:17.797Z Ah dear I must soon be contented with an acre or two of oaten cake a hogshead of Milk and a Clothes-basket of Eggs morning noon and night when I get among the Highlanders. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Saint Nicholas covered the hogshead, leaving the giant sticking fast in the pickle, and that was the end of the giant. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z The following day as they were unloading the last boat and almost the last hogshead of tobacco, it slipped from the derrick hooks and rolled upon his foot. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z And when they wanted water to wash the clothes, they took some of the water out of the hogshead. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z Sugar-cane, sufficient to manufacture ninety hogsheads, was destroyed; besides thirty hogsheads of sugar, and one hundred and sixty-two negroes were carried off. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z And forever the dray, laden with cotton bales sometimes, and sometimes with boxes, or barrels, or hogsheads, took its drag-tailed way to the depots or to the wharf. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z He cut up a great store of deer meat and put it in a large pot bigger than a hogshead, and made a good meat stew. Canadian Fairy Tales 2011-05-30T02:00:14.087Z A few hogsheads he buried here and there, and sprinkled some dozens of barrels elsewhere about the ground. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z A high fence was all around the yard, and in one corner was a tub made of a hogshead cut in two, and a pump was beside it. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z The Yanks busted open a sugar hogshead and give everybody all they wanted. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Had big hogsheads filled up with flour, corn and wheat. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z She has on board, for one thing, 60 hogsheads of tobacco. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Bombax ceiba, and Bombax monguba, the monguba of the Amazon, are used for canoes, a single trunk sufficing to make a craft that will carry twenty hogsheads of sugar along with its crew of tapuyos. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Then they put in the bungs and tied all the hogsheads together with ropes that went between them, and they threw them over the side of the ship into the water. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z In the last kettle—the teach as it is termed—the sugar is concentrated to the granulating point, and then conveyed into coolers, which hold from two to three hogsheads. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Dey take de big sugar hogshead and stretch rawhide over de top. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z You others, hold your levers ready near those stones and hogsheads of sand. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Several hours earlier the great hogsheads which had been dragged out of the distillery had been knocked in the head without ceremony, and every one had drunk his fill. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Then the sailors in the rowboat caught the end of the rope and rowed, and they went to the island, dragging the hogsheads that floated on the top of the water. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z The molasses is received beneath in cisterns, and when they become filled, it is taken out and conveyed into barrels or hogsheads and shipped. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z After supplying the immediate wants of both ships, they salted down near a hogshead a day. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z The Tartaro fills two hogsheads to carry, but the lad says to him, “Only that; I will take the whole fountain;” and he begins to stir the water about with a stick. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z "You did not drink a glass that time," remarked the stout gendarme, "you had a hogshead." Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z And they filled the hogsheads with nice fresh water that came out of the rock, and then they rowed back to the ship, dragging the hogsheads. The Sandman: His Farm Stories 2011-05-23T02:00:10.500Z The lines are strikingly applicable to the present subject by merely substituting "café" for "cabin," and negus-drinkers for "hogsheads and barrels." The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z There were hogsheads of sugar, barrels of rice, boxes of abominable soap, and a few barrels of flour. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z How, then, did they dispose of the mass of soil dug out in making a tunnel through which barrels and hogsheads were to be conveyed? What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence 2011-01-03T03:01:06.770Z In 1868, at one "shot" this net took five thousand six hundred hogsheads, or over sixteen million fish! Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z She placed upon the bird a hogshead of water, and on the top of it a wicker basket full of meat, and put into his hands an iron pole. Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi 2010-12-20T17:11:44.353Z After remaining here for twenty-four hours or more, it is removed to the purgerie, or draining-house, and placed in hogsheads, which is technically called potting. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Later in the day we saw soldiers luxuriating like children in the hogsheads of sugar. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The indictment of the conspirators named 30 barrels and 4 hogsheads. What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence 2011-01-03T03:01:06.770Z The fish are then dipped out by the basketful and tipped over into the boat, which, when filled, contains over thirty hogsheads—say one hundred thousand fish! Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z That night, news leaked ashore to a tobacco buyer named Organ who dashed to Laidlaw & Company at sunup the next morning hoping to seal a previously discussed deal to buy 111 hogsheads of tobacco. Caveat Emptor is Not a Business Model 2010-04-26T20:27:00Z She concluded that she had gone into the hogshead's mouth for nothing, and so she had. Some Little People There were sacks of corn, tierces of rice, sides of bacon, barrels of flour, hogsheads of sugar, sufficient for several days' rations. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Some of these casks, we are told, were small, but some were hogsheads. What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence 2011-01-03T03:01:06.770Z Then that ghastly story of the slave he pressed to death in the hogshead of tobacco.” The Valiants of Virginia As he rose to repeat his deafening roar, it seemed to Blake that he stood higher than a horse–that his mouth gaped wide as the end of a hogshead. Into the Primitive There was an old hogshead under the walnut tree, very high and old. Some Little People Men were seen rolling hogsheads of bacon through the streets. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z In the morning we loaded the canoe with one hundred and forty-one half barrels of flour, and twenty half barrels of pork and mackerel, and two hogsheads filled with firkins of butter. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... For instance, in Jamaica, one to two hogsheads of sugar is considered a good yield, but in Cuba, three hogsheads are the average. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future Pigeons, arriving in thousands, alighted every where, one over another, until solid masses as large as hogsheads were formed on the branches all around. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom When she had anything very important to think about she liked to climb up and sit on the top of the hogshead. Some Little People We took our cargo on board, boxes of sugar in the hold and hogsheads of molasses for a deck load. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document The next day I found one pipe of gin and one hogshead of rum unopened, which he consented to restore to me. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... "It is as good as done if only I can get those sixty hogsheads down to the sea, as an earnest of what is to come!" The Firebrand Here, zealous voters swill down hogsheads of beer: brewers drive a brisk trade during elections. The Progressionists, and Angela. She climbed up on the hogshead and sat very still, thinking how to manage about the new clothes. Some Little People There is also about half a million hogsheads of molasses exported annually. To Cuba and Back Having sold all my cargo, and taken on board over a hundred hogsheads of molasses, I sailed for New-York, where we arrived about the first of April, 1823. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... At a late hour in the night I would find a resting-place in some box or hogshead, or in some dark hole under a staircase. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Ten oxen were slaughtered every morning, sixteen hogsheads of wine and forty hogsheads of beer were consumed daily. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands She jumped up and down so suddenly and so hard that the hogshead tried to move its head out of the way. Some Little People It is then shovelled from the coolers into hogsheads. To Cuba and Back Five hogsheads of sugar were damaged in consequence of the leaking of my vessel. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... About ninety-six thousand hogsheads of tobacco are annually purchased with a part of the surplus produce of British industry. On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation Still, when a Chancellor of Exchequer has clapped on sixpence a gallon on whiskey, it is as well for his colleagues to avoid looking a Scotch hogshead or an Irish puncheon in the face. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 It did move its head—or a part of it—and 'Lisbeth sat inside the hogshead instead of outside of it. Some Little People These hogsheads have holes bored in their bottoms; and, to facilitate the drainage, strips of cane are placed in the hogshead, with their ends in these holes, and the hogs-head is filled. To Cuba and Back The listing of hogsheads and barrels of vinegar in the sale inventory suggests still another facet of Green Spring Farm’s diversification. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia Lashed to her, took on passenger and two hogshead of ice. An Artilleryman's Diary This made a wider road and soon they were rolling their hogsheads of tobacco and grain over it. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia His strength was such that he could simultaneously “head up”—that is, raise from their sides to an upright position—two hogsheads of tobacco, weighing nearly one thousand pounds apiece. Thomas Jefferson The hogsheads are set on open frames, under which are copper receivers, on an inclined plane, to catch and carry off the drippings from the hogsheads. To Cuba and Back As the best material at hand from which to erect breastworks they used hogsheads of sugar and molasses, which were sent flying in fragments by the American cannon. The Greater Republic A History of the United States They are, so to speak, drunk with Western liquor, and are sucking it up by the hogshead. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Human heads are like hogsheads—the emptier they are, the louder report they give of themselves. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 After this, it is broken up or crushed, and packed in hogsheads or boxes for exportation. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time “That’s worse than a hundred and eleven hogshead of ’baccy,” he goes on. Rewards and Fairies It sinks an artesian well in the desert of Sahara for a pitcher of water, and bores through the Alleghanies for a hogshead of oil. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. This I laid upon the head of a tobacco hogshead, one Stephen Lankford, a carpenter, now alive, being with me. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts Ask him to gauge a hogshead of spirits, for instance. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance It was sport to watch the burly negroes unload the hogsheads of molasses, the barrels of sugar, and the spices. The Child's Book of American Biography He caused a huge engine to be made, of the capacity of a hogshead; filled with combustibles, and then swung, by means of machinery, on the rampart of the bastion. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 An impost, first established during the Commonwealth of England, was still levied on every hogshead of tobacco exported; this became a permanent source of revenue, and rendered the executive independent of the legislature. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Besides all this, they applied the balance, remaining due upon account of the two shilling per hogshead, and fort duties, to this use. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts This would augment the production of tobacco by many thousands of hogsheads, stimulate trade and industry in England, and aid his Majesty's revenue. The Planters of Colonial Virginia And when all was confusion on shipboard, I stealthily crept on shore, and hid myself behind some hogsheads in which the bees were humming; they did not trouble me. Waldfried A Novel If this is not available, a large hogshead may be utilized at the proper time. Home Pork Making The ordinary weight of a hogshead of tobacco at this time did not exceed three hundred and fifty pounds, and its dimensions by law were forty-three inches long and twenty-six wide. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia By these the tobacco of the minister is collected, and brought to him in hogsheads convenient for shipping, so that he is at no farther trouble but to receive it in that condition. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts The pamphlet entitled The Present State of the Tobacco Plantations in America stated, in 1708, that France and Spain alone had imported 20,000 hogsheads, but that both were now otherwise supplied. The Planters of Colonial Virginia The British, who were in as great a hurry, built a breastwork of sugar hogsheads which they found on the plantations. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Ayeh! sure I mind the time a hogshead of claret didn't do the fortnight. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The number of hogsheads of tobacco shipped from Virginia and Maryland together annually was 70,000, of which half was consumed in England, and half exported to other countries. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Such as the quitrents, the money arising by the two shillings per hogshead, fort duties, the fines and forfeitures, and the profit of escheats and rights of land. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts And when once the hogsheads began to move, the reaction on Virginia and Maryland was rapid and pronounced. The Planters of Colonial Virginia But the cannon balls soon set the cotton on fire and filled the air with flying sugar, so the bales and the hogsheads had to be pulled out. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read Here were a vast number of packing-oases, and boxes, piled on each other, from floor to roof, together, with hogsheads and casks of every shape and size. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The second source of revenue consisted of two shillings per hogshead, export duty, on tobacco, and fort duties, being fifteen pence per ton on all vessels arriving. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Three thousand bags of East India, and five hundred hogsheads of Sagua.—Take my word, the opposition will end by defeating Villèle.—What about indigo? Toilers of the Sea The war has stopped the trade with Spain, France, Flanders and part of the Baltic," Colonel Quary reported in a memorial to the Board of Trade, "which took off yearly 20,000 hogsheads of tobacco. The Planters of Colonial Virginia Said he knew so good a man as his Reverence wouldn’t say ‘No’ to us, and just kept teasin’ at me till we stepped-an’-fetched a lot of staves come off a hogshead. Dorothy at Oak Knowe The voice proceeded from an empty molasses hogshead, into which Johnny had jumped, during the melee, for safety. The History and Records of the Elephant Club The only duty levied was that of two shillings on every hogshead of tobacco exported; the exportation of the year 1671 amounting to fifteen thousand hogsheads. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia He first tried his machine with only two pounds of powder on a hogshead loaded with stones. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read Each year scores of merchantmen crossed to the Chesapeake and swarmed in every river and creek, delivering their English goods to the planters and taking in return the hogsheads of tobacco. The Planters of Colonial Virginia An hour later the money arrived in little hogsheads, and he had it weighed in the presence of his captains. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Before noon every small boy in the village knew that at Lukas’ house they had a hogshead of ducats. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Thirdly, two shillings per hogshead on tobacco exported, which, together with some tonnage duties, amounted to three thousand pounds a year. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The powder was set on fire, and up went the stones and the boards of the hogshead and a body of water, many feet into the air. Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read The Cattleya was still there, perched aloft, as big as a hogshead. The Woodlands Orchids Forty thousand hogsheads, or 120 million fish, have been taken in the course of a single season, requiring 20,000 tons of salt to cure them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" She did not want to lose the two shillings tax on each hogshead of tobacco. A History of the Town of Fairfax The exports of tobacco were between fifty and sixty thousand hogsheads, each weighing eight hundred or a thousand pounds. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Last spring I determined to give the cultivation of the water-lily a trial, and impressed an old lime hogshead into the service. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. He was sick at his stomach and his head felt like a hogshead; unaccustomed to liquor as he was, the cognac had taken violent effect. A Canadian Bankclerk They are then packed in hogsheads, each containing about 2400 fish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" He supplied them with musquash and beaver skins, hogshead staves, clapboards and oar rafters in return for such goods and supplies as he needed. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 About eight o'clock the wagons arrived with cartridges and hogsheads of brandy; each soldier received a double ration: with a crust of bread we might have done very well, but the bread was not there. Waterloo A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 Sugar is worth more to a consumer when it is doled out to him in paper sacks than it would be if it were to be had only in hogsheads. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy Another time, he says that one hundred and fifteen hogsheads of "sweetly scented and neatly managed Tobacco" were raised, and that in a single year he sold eighty-five thousand herring, taken from the Potomac. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Asked if wine and beer were stored in Fastcastle, in 1600, he said, as has already been stated, that a hogshead of wine was therein. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Several coopers were sent from Newburyport by Hazen & Jarvis to manufacture hogsheads for the lime business, one hogshead being considered about as much as a man could make in a day. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 Sugarcane is cultivated on the fertile plains, yielding three hogsheads on an average per acre without any manure. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... When it becomes well dried, pick off the leaves, and tie the stems together in small bunches, and pack away in hogsheads or boxes, in a dry place. Soil Culture Dey put us in a sugar hogshead and give us a spoon to scrape out de sugar. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 He had the little cask of nails to sit on, and he was sure that he could hold the hogshead down so that they couldn’t overturn it. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out You will observe there are seven hogsheads of rye and Indian corn wanting of the number in the invoices. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 The stoop outside was filled with hogsheads and boxes; inside was the usual stock of calicoes, chinaware, molasses-barrels, and books; the post-office, a high desk, on which lay half a dozen letters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Turning round, but not moving a step, he again pointed with his screw-driver to the wooden gutter which once caught the rain-water from the shed-roof and discharged it into a hogshead near by. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls On a hogshead at one side a street preacher was declaiming. Gold He did this to the next and the next, until there was a circle of paws under the hogshead. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out If the lime answers well we shall want 150 hogsheads with hoops and boards for heads; also boards for a house, some glass, etc., bricks for chimney and hinges for two doors. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 It seemed to me more like a hogshead. The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold The brackets from one end of the gutter had rotted off, and it hung down on the pig-pen fence, discharging into the pen instead of into the hogshead. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls By 1620 this had increased to �62 10s, and included provisions to the extent of 2 hogsheads and a half ton. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 Then he slid the hogshead along to a smooth place in the ice, and did the same thing all over again. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Delivered Mr. Hazen his two hogsheads of tobacco, which I couldn’t do before, we have had such blowing weather the two days past. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 But the Hinsdale water barrel, that has just been completed and now is in operation, is no mere castoff sauerkraut hogshead. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories The day the hogsheads were marshaled and connected and the force pump sent its first stream into them was a great occasion. Exit Betty In the cargo, too, were 100 "hogsheads" of supplies valued at �536, a substantial sum, for the plantation of the Truelove Society. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 The only things left in the sleigh now were an empty hogshead, a cask of nails and a hatchet. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out The "Lexington," dressed in her gayest rig, was loaded with a full cargo of tobacco, in hogsheads, and only awaited the arrival of her commander, Capt. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria I took cold baths, warm baths, tepid baths, and Turkish baths in hundreds, and drank about twenty hogsheads of mineral waters—but it did me no good. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 There was also an arrangement of gutter pipes for carrying off any surplus water from the hogsheads, so saving the Carson house from possible inundation at any time of heavy storms. Exit Betty So I could be pardoned for going down cellar and watching behind old hogsheads by the hour to see where the cars came in. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Then he threw the nails and hatchet and empty hogshead out on the ice. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Old Missy took all us chillen, black and white, and puts us under half a big hogshead, down in de stormhouse. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 Well, by thy leave, p. 224worthy sir, will thee be so kind as to tell I be it anything like a hogshead?” The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Of course he knew that even a well-filled phalanx of hogsheads could not hold the enemy forever, but he was counting on the fire company to arrive in time to save the day. Exit Betty Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks' passage brings them in their own tongue our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations He turned the hogshead upside down, crept in under and let it down over him. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out Enormous hogsheads are shipped on the boats, and the transhipping them is often a dangerous business, if we may judge from our own experiences. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Each one was required to forward it promptly, under the penalty of forfeiting a hogshead of tobacco. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series They searched behind the hogshead, where The watchful spider spied and span; They sighed to see the wine that ran A crimson torrent, wasting there. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems As the sugar crystallized it was taken out,—a dark, pulpy-looking mass, at which the young Hardys looked very doubtfully,—and was placed in a large sugar hogshead, which had been procured for the purpose. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers At last, he didn’t hear any more noise, and, lifting up the edge of the hogshead, he saw that it was morning, and all the wolves were gone. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out And the Lucy was logy, of course, with the three hundred and odd hogsheads 166 of salt and other stuff in her. The Seiners The export from them, as we were informed by the courteous editor of "La Opinion," a local paper, aggregates thirty thousand hogsheads annually. Due South or Cuba Past and Present In another minute it must stamp out Victor Nelson's life beneath feet as large as hogsheads. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 A bushel of pyrethrum powder would not pepper them all or a hogshead of kerosene emulsion last long enough to get them all. The Mayflower, January, 1905 He used to sit on a hogshead of it in his front yard and challenge all and sundry to mortal combat. Love and Lucy “What do you say, then, to oil, both linseed and train-oil? to delicious honey, corn without end, soap, isinglass, and, to crown the whole, hogsheads upon hogsheads of—tallow!” The Rambles of a Rat Coopers are heading up hogsheads full of the manufactured article, and others are rolling up empty ones to be filled. Due South or Cuba Past and Present It occurred to me while standing there, that if hogsheads were to be filled with stones and sent rolling upon an assaulting force, it would be an effective means of defense.” Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance The attendants were clothed in velvet, and the party drank sixteen hogsheads of wine and forty hogsheads of beer every day, while to feed them ten oxen were killed every morning. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Which of us would thrive on milk at the rate of a pint to five hogsheads of water? Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Some 41 laborers were camping in old hogsheads. The Mountain Divide For instance: one to two hogsheads of sugar to the acre is considered a good yield in Jamaica, but in Cuba three hogsheads is the average. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Upon the wharf were hogsheads of molasses unloaded from a vessel just arrived from Jamaica. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance They were two enormous hogsheads, ten feet high and six broad. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine The sailors, tired of the lukewarm filthy drink from the hogsheads aboard, longed for a draught from the ice-cold f�nt de Gas. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Don Benigno gives us interesting statistics on his favourite subject, informing us how twelve or fourteen tons of ripe cane may be converted into one thousand five hundred hogsheads of sugar. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba It is then crushed and packed either in hogsheads or in boxes for exportation; canvas bags are also being largely employed, as they are easier to pack on board ship, and also to handle generally. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The jar here means a big affair about half the size of a hogshead: I bathed in one this morning. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Some one, using the old expression about some light wine he was giving, "There's not a head-ache in a hogshead of it," was answered; "No, but there's a belly-ache in every glass of it." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. He did not see the rancher, who sat on an empty box behind a sugar hogshead inside the counter. Thurston of Orchard Valley The entrances to the streets have been barricaded with huge hogsheads containing sand and stones; small cannon stand in the plaza and principal thoroughfares. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba A hogshead was accordingly filled and rolled behind the door of the kitchen, which adjoined the dwelling house. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State In short, imagine an enormous hamper basket, big enough to hold six or eight hogsheads, put on stilts, and covered with shucks: such in appearance is the Filipino's house. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions To half a hogshead put one quart of brandy and three pounds of raisins. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. It is time for another senator, and who do you suppose is plugging for it, and opening hogsheads of money? David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West This quantity of ingredients is sufficient for a hogshead. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families In a corner were some hogsheads of wine, in another small tables with three-legged stools. Rosinante to the Road Again Men dressed in the same sort of clothes as those laid out for him pushed at cotton bales, rolled hogsheads along to the docks, or rowed out to ships anchored in midstream. Mr. Wicker's Window This may be repeated two or three times the same day, and the ham may be taken out of the hogshead the next morning. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. I have got ten hogsheads of sugar, twenty-four crates of hardware, some barrels of molasses, and forty casks of spirits on board, eighty kegs of nails and a ton or two of rice and flour. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California ALE, allowing eight bushels of malt to the hogshead, should be brewed in the beginning of March. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families "One little cup on Sundays, and they are so starved that it makes them as drunk as if it were a hogshead." Rosinante to the Road Again But they were not very intelligent pets; hardly more intelligent than the fish that the boys kept in the large wooden hogshead of rain-water at the corner of the house. A Boy's Town "I wouldn't like to be cotched by a squid as big as a hogshead," Bobby remarked, timidly. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories ‘Why,’ asked a critic in the Edinburgh Review in 1819, ‘should the Americans write books when a six weeks’ passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads?’ Australian Writers This pleasant beverage may be made with eight bushels of malt to the hogshead, and eight pounds of hops. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families "I could guzzle a hogshead of coffee accompanied by vast processions of toasted rolls in columns of four," shouted Lyaeus. Rosinante to the Road Again Besides the fish, there was a turtle in the hogshead, and he had a broad chip that he liked to sun himself on. A Boy's Town Billy estimated the length of its body, from the beak to the point of the tail, as twenty feet, the circumference as "the size of a hogshead." The Boy Scouts Book of Stories Monsieur D.... who has cunningly laid his hands upon all the barrels within thirty miles round, will put a pistol to his head if he cannot sell his army of hogsheads. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches On four hundred-weight of Malagas pour a hogshead of spring water, stir it well every day for a fortnight, then squeeze the raisins in a horse-hair bag in a press, and tun the liquor. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families One man was headed up in a hogshead, and rolled into the river, because he stood up for the Union! My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field They had caught some of these fish when they were quite small, and the fish grew very fast, for there was plenty of food for them in the mosquito-tadpoles that abounded in the hogshead. A Boy's Town It is rumored that an eminent stingy merchant, who is a bachelor, had a hogshead of coffee in his store, which he refused to sell under 6 shillings per pound. All About Coffee To such she would say, get a stout hogshead—a sugar hogshead preferable—nail on a board roof to shed water, then set it upon a stout frame at least seven feet above ground. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South His coopers made the hogsheads the tobacco was prized in, and the tight casks to hold the cider and other liquors. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion As the dilapidated head emerged, it showed the grotesque caricature of a Neptune, whose element was not the waters of ocean, but the shattered hogsheads of “beer.” Heart of the Blue Ridge She carried fish, clams, lobsters, hay, and potatoes, and fetched an "all sorts" cargo useful to the islanders, from a paper of needles to a hogshead of molasses. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Great hogsheads of molasses and rum from Jamaica, set ashore from newly arrived ships, shouldered for room with baled cotton and boxes of tobacco ready to be loaded. The Black Buccaneer Hang the meat upon them—but not until the hogshead is in place. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Its body resembles a huge hogshead perched on four short, stumpy legs. Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Some variation takes place in the prices realized by the foreign trade—their average, wholesale, is stated to be about fifty shillings per hogshead. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot “You don’t suppose I am going to leave all these hogsheads of sugar, puncheons of rum, and bales of goods to be burnt or destroyed by those scoundrels.” By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson This town contained about one hundred houses; and a warehouse for the inspection of tobacco, where about two thousand hogsheads were annually inspected. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Between the supports set an iron vessel—build your hickory smoke-fires in it, smothering them carefully, and letting the smoke, with a sufficiency of air, well up, through barrel, hogshead, etc. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South And can you hire the sun to shine by the day, or order the rain by the hogshead?” Seven Miles to Arden Get out of here! for, as my name is Maciek, I wish you to millions, hundreds of hundreds of thousands of waggons of hogsheads, of drays of devils!!!” Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 With roast beef and two hogsheads of fine wine—we should do very well. Washington Crossing the Delaware But, then, it was discovered that the hogsheads had been larger this year than the preceding! Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Or one might even rig up a smoking hogshead in an attic, providing the chimney were tall enough to cool smoke properly—and lead smoke out to it through a length of drain pipe. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South There stood Clara, in the centre of the room, stepping back slowly, as a pool of molasses, streaming steadily from a hogshead in the corner, crept towards the toes of her little red shoes. The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Each year, when the tobacco season was over, I had regular employment in a cooper-shop with my father, and I learned to make barrels and hogsheads. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Robbers seized the woad at Portsmouth and carried it off to Guildford; Hod, pursuing, recaptured his hogsheads and lodged them in Guildford Castle. Highways and Byways in Surrey In 1839, the first year of complete emancipation, it appeared that the crop of sugar exported from the island had fallen off no less than eight thousand four hundred and sixty-six hogsheads. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It was more than twenty years before they could produce 40,000 hogsheads; and during the greater part of that time very little profit was made upon the capital employed. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 A series of these movements, made at short intervals, ended in bringing the conspirators close up to the empty hogshead; and then one of them sat down by it. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea If I say that we had twenty hogsheads of disinfectants and deodorizers along it's all you need know. It, and Other Stories I should suppose three hundred barrels of flour, as many of salt meat, and eight or ten hogsheads of rum, would be sufficient, at the Elk. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI It is true, there was not exactly any proof that larger hogsheads had been used all over the island, but it was rumored; and the rumor was, of course, eagerly swallowed by the abolitionists. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Of the 100,000 hogsheads of sugar made in Louisiana, 50,000 hogsheads are transported up the Mississippi in steam-boats, for the supply of the Western States, who obtain it in exchange for their productions. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 There was a large hogshead with two or three small barrels upon the raft; and around its edge were lashed several empty casks, serving as buoys to keep it above water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea A week later a dray rumbled up to the door of my lodgings in Jermyn Street, and two stout men delivered from it a hogshead of the sherry you are now drinking. Merry-Garden and Other Stories Between whiles he rolls hogsheads down into cellars, or bottles wine, and even drinks it when he is among friends who have money to pay withal. Fantômas The weekly production of a plantation sank rapidly under this system from thirty-three hogsheads to twenty-three, and finally to thirteen. Principles Of Political Economy There are estimated 725 plantations, which, when brought into operation, will yield an average of 300 hogsheads, sufficient for the consumption of 1836. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 There was design in the arrangement; and in the midst of the circle of empty hogsheads might have been seen the contriver of this curious craft. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea This merchant came with six hogsheads of excellent Rhone wine, which the citizens, after afflicting him with stripes, spilt at large upon the market-place. Merry-Garden and Other Stories The Bridger store had on hand six barrels and one hogshead of rum, the entire contents being approximately two hundred and fifty-five gallons. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century In the United States the word means an open-air feast, either political or social, where whole animals are roasted and eaten and hogsheads of beer and other vast quantities of food and drink consumed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" As we were going ashore in the gig we caught sight of a huge bull, as large as a hogshead, which was floating on the surface. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China The empty hogsheads were placed around the edge in a regular manner. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Rhone wine, that even at four livres the hogshead could not be sold at a profit.' Merry-Garden and Other Stories A sloop, with a capacity of twenty-eight hogsheads, equipped with "furniture, sails, rigging and ground tackle" is accounted for in the inventory. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Gentlemen, Your pressing request for five thousand hogsheads of tobacco, is a matter as embarrassing to Congress as to yourselves. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I A horse or mule was hitched to the hogshead. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 Just then, as he sat upon the raft, gazing over the bulwark of hogsheads, its expression was one of profound and sombre melancholy. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea An incalculable amount of grain, and tens of thousands of hogsheads of sugar and molasses, besides enormous quantities of other useful articles, are every year thus wickedly perverted in this Christian land. Select Temperance Tracts In addition, the partners in the shipping enterprise loaded two hogsheads on the Unity of Isle of Wight, making a total poundage of 32,350. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century I request of you, gentlemen, to send me next spring, if it is possible for you, ten or twelve thousand hogsheads, or more if you can, of tobacco from Virginia, of the best quality. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I A tobacco hogshead reconstructed from a picture appearing in Harper's Weekly of December 11, 1869. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 Fat Will is represented as thick as he was long, and often by means of a dress with hoops stretched across, formed himself into the figure of a hogshead. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 The destroyer seeks his victim alike in every hogshead, and in every glass. Select Temperance Tracts Each of the three districts exported about 83,000 hogsheads of tobacco, while the Lower James River district exported only about 10,000. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" I have engaged a sale for 20,000 hogsheads of tobacco, the amount of which will establish the credit of the Congress with the mercantile interest in France and Holland. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I The hogshead, constructed of rough lumber, is 6 feet long and 4 feet in diameter. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 The governor had sixty hogsheads of sugar for his dividend, and one Mr. Knight, who was his secretary and collector for the province, twenty, and the rest was shared among the other pirates. Great Pirate Stories Often and often, when I am just losing myself in sleep, I am startled by the most frightful groans and unearthly imprecations, coming out of these hogsheads. Select Temperance Tracts It was estimated that 20,000 hogsheads were being produced annually in that region alone. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" I have promised that you will send out twenty thousand hogsheads this winter, in payment for the articles wanted here. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I We’ll founder, for the water is pouring into our bottom by the hogshead. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Ned looked at the buckets, the tops of which he couldn't even see, for they were two enormous hogsheads, ten feet high and six broad. The Magic Soap Bubble Time passed on, and a hogshead was needful; and its contents were exhausted with the same intent, and the same self-deceivings. Select Temperance Tracts The fire dried the stem of the leaf more thoroughly, thus eliminating the major cause of spoilage when packed in the hogshead for shipment. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" I have written heretofore for twenty thousand hogsheads of tobacco. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Twenty hogsheads were transferred to the hold of Raleigh’s ship and the captured craft was allowed to sail on,—empty. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure The average annual taking of pilchards in Cornwall is estimated at 20,000 hogsheads. The Cornwall Coast Formerly I could retail hogshead after hogshead of all kinds of spirits, and you slept as quietly as a child. Select Temperance Tracts Tobacco was also shipped loose or in small bundles known as hands, and by 1629 a considerable number of hogsheads were being used. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" These are articles which cannot fail, and are capital ones; twenty thousand hogsheads of tobacco are this instant wanted in France, besides the demand in other kingdoms. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I There is gold and silver in this spot, and by the hogshead. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Among this collection, the quick eye of Watson caught sight of a large molasses hogshead, now empty and with its open end turned upwards. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Cider, pale, one hogshead, Spirits three gallons, Honey or Sugar twenty pounds. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed If the two varieties were mixed in a hogshead, it was purchased at the prevailing Oronoco prices, which were less than those paid for sweet-scented. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" We have at length finished a contract with the Farmers-General, for five thousand hogsheads of tobacco, a copy of which is enclosed. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I Immense wagons, laden with hogsheads of sugar and molasses, rattled over the rough pavements as they were drawn by huge oxen, that were steered by stout ropes, which were cruelly passed through their nostrils. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 Once a negro who had joined the hunt brushed by the hogshead, much to the terror of its occupants, but he gave it no heed. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Sugar hogsheads are made of beech, partly because it is a tasteless wood and partly because it has great strength. Seasoning of Wood These two varieties were probably seldom mixed except perhaps to fill the last hogshead of the season. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" She never fills a pail but she spills a hogshead. The Crack of Doom Percy worked until the last pound of the fifteen hundred was salted down in the hogshead. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good He found things rather cramped at the bottom of the hogshead, to which he had been transferred from George’s pocket; he longed to have more leeway for his tiny legs. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War He seized the mallet that had fallen, and struck a good knock against the nearest hogshead. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale By 1665 most of the tobacco was shipped in hogsheads, but it was not until 1730 that the shipment of bulk tobacco was prohibited. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" It is a broacher of more news than hogsheads, and more jests than news, which are sucked up here by some spongy brain, and from thence squeezed into a comedy. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters The morning's catch had been split and salted; it just filled a hogshead. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good At last they cautiously abandoned the hogshead, and crept into the pines in front of them. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War He seized up a bucket and ran to the hogshead containing his daughter’s native cowslip wine. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Nor were the hogsheads made to any standard size until 1657, at which time they were required to be 43" × 26". Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Aunt Martha told us that when Tim Neal came to town he had a brogue you could scrape with a knife and an "O" before his name you could hoop a hogshead with. In Our Town Not until the last hake lay on the top of its brethren in the hogshead did he take off his oilskins and prepare for his visit to the yacht. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good But Watson calculated that no one would think of the hogshead for the very reason that it stood out so prominently amid all the trash of this dumping 255 ground. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War I shall shift the present positions of the hogsheads. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale The weight of the hogshead increased from time to time. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" By main force they were able to raise the hogshead to the surface, but not above it. James B. Eads The wines mellow best in large vessels; hence the celebrated Heidelberg tun, thirty-one feet long by twenty-one high, and holding one hundred and fifty fudders, or six hundred hogsheads. The Automobilist Abroad A flat-bottomed boat used in the West Indies for bringing off hogsheads of sugar; it is termed single or double, according to its size. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “Good heavens!” said the Baron, getting behind a hogshead, “what a brute!” The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Thus it appears that by 1700 the Tidewater planters had adopted three methods of transporting their tobacco to market or to points of exportation: by rolling the hogshead, by cart, and by boat. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" As the air-pump continued to work all the while, Eads, though wondering what was amiss, sat patiently in his place, till finally he saw a hand appear under the rim of the hogshead. James B. Eads That smuggling sloop landed many a fine bale of silk, hogshead of wine, and tobacco galore, all along the south coast; but never had been caught. As We Sweep Through The Deep One-half of a hogshead, or 28 imperial gallons. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “I don’t know exactly what you mean to imply by that, young man,” said the Baron, coming out from behind the hogshead and puffing somewhat pompously. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale To prevent this, the hogshead was raised off the ground by a device called a felly. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" At nine, set off with about thirty camels, having got all our liquor with us, divided into hogsheads, for the convenience of carriage on the camels. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. At one end of the press is a great roll of paper as big as a hogshead and a mile or more long. Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls A vessel containing the eighth part of a hogshead. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. What a charming sight is a large tree in blossom, and after that, when loaden with fruit, enough perhaps to make a hogshead of cyder or perry! On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions This device consisted of segments of wood fitted together to form a circle resembling the rim of a cartwheel; these segments were fitted around the circumference of the hogshead. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" In front of Bienvenue's house he constructed a battery, of hogsheads of sugar taken from the near plantations, the season for grinding the cane and converting the product into sugar having just closed. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 It was night, therefore, and dark as pitch—that, of course, behind a huge hogshead down in the hold of a ship. The Boy Tar A tun of wine or oil contains 4 hogsheads. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There ensued some talk as to how many hogsheads of tobacco the convict was worth, and then Browne went forward to inspect the man and question him. Duffels The hogsheads used for rolling in this manner were constructed much more substantially than those wagoned or transported by boat. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" The British, in the absence of cotton bales, used hogsheads of sugar, which were conveniently near, for the same purposes. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 Howbeit one of them brake an hogshead which wee had filled with fresh water, with a great branche of a tree which lay on the ground. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. A measure of wine containing two hogsheads, or 125 gallons, equal to half a tun. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. After the beer or ale is run from the grains, pour a hogshead and a half for the twelve bushels; and a hogshead of water, if eight were brewed. A Poetical Cook-Book Two canoes fifty or sixty feet long were lashed together with cords and eight or nine hogsheads of tobacco were rolled on their gunwales crossways for the trip to Richmond. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Rolling the hogsheads towards the front, they were placed in the parapets of the batteries. The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 I saw one that was as large as half a hogshead. Heroes of the Middle West The French This has been described as "two hogsheads placed crosswise, in the ends of which are the dials of the clock," and above is a kind of pyramid, ending in a vane. The Strand District The Fascination of London It seems that about 2 miles away, in a barn, they had come on a hogshead of ginger brandy, and had stayed with it to the bitter end. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Still another planter complained that the planter's name and evidence on the hogshead had much more effect on the price of the tobacco than the inspector's brand. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Such was the effect of his eloquence, that the firm against which he wielded his oratorical thunder found it necessary to compromise matters by treating the entire concourse to a hogshead of wine. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 We loaded the sloop with hogshead of sugar, and bolts of damask, and silver ingots. Blackbeard: Buccaneer But it happened to be in a hogshead. Dotty Dimple At Home More general indignation was excited by the proposal of a tax of four shillings a hogshead on cider, to be paid by the maker and collected as an excise. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration If the owner refused consent the entire hogshead was to be destroyed. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" You will remember that a hogshead is on his travels through the torrid zone for you…. Historical Essays The Fat Woman in her long silk robe, and as big as a hogshead. Twenty Years of Hus'ling “The 20th December, twenty-five bales cotton, four hogsheads tobacco in leaf, delivered to Mr Merton,” began the overseer; “the 24th January, twenty-five bales cotton and one hogshead tobacco-leaves.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Upwards of three hundredweight of salt are used for each hogshead. A Yacht Voyage Round England A tobacco note was issued to the owner of each hogshead that passed the inspection. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" His factory employed a couple of hundred men in the fabrication of hogsheads. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography They owed one bill to Beljambe for three hogsheads of wine, another to Langlois for two stone of sugar, a sum of one hundred francs to the tailor, and sixty to the shoemaker. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life The 20th December, twenty-five bales cotton, and four hogsheads tobacco-leaves, delivered to Mr Merton. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 After the pilchards have remained about a month, they are cleansed from the salt, and packed in hogsheads, each of which contains two thousand four hundred fish, weighing four hundred and seventy-six pounds. A Yacht Voyage Round England The person finally demanding possession of the tobacco was allowed to have the hogsheads reinspected if he so desired. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" The portion constructed was easy, while the residue is exceedingly difficult, following the valleys of impetuous mountain torrents, which to-day discharge each minute five gallons and to-morrow five thousand hogsheads. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. “Ah, that all?” cried the hatless individual; and, turning to Larkyns, he said with an entreating air, “I’ll give you an advance of ten shillings a hogshead if you let me have it.” Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant The 24th January, twenty-five bales and one hogshead to Mr Groves, and again, on the 10th February, twenty-two bales and seven hogsheads to Messrs Goring. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 And a hogshead vast will hardly last A merry evenin' through. Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates When the purchaser of such tobacco had enough to fill a hogshead, the tobacco was prized and the transfer notes were exchanged for a tobacco note. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" J. B. McF.—A tun is a certain measure for liquids, as for wine, and its capacity equals two pipes, or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 If one of our hogsheads contain from one hundred to one hundred and forty gallons, how much should a Lilliputian hogshead contain to be in proportion? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide However, there was some excellent wine, of which we took twenty hogsheads on board, and we told the Governor to keep his money. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 So saying, he took Marco to the engine of the boat, and showed him, in the midst of the machinery, a large iron vessel, shaped like a hogshead, only it had straight sides. Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge Out of this the inspectors had to pay the proprietors of the warehouse eight pence rent per hogshead. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" Their voices boomed dully, as if they were in a huge hogshead which had been headed over. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 After religious services there was a barbecue, which, history tells us, consisted of four fat hogs, turkeys, fowls English beef, a hogshead of punch, a hogshead of beer, and a quantity of wine. Stories Of Georgia Bags of coffee are in one place, chests of tea in another, hogsheads of molasses and sugar, and various other kinds of goods are distributed all over the place. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The pigeons arrive by thousands, alighting everywhere, one above another, till solid masses, as large as hogsheads, are formed on the branches all around. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The rent which the proprietor received usually depended upon the number of hogsheads inspected at his warehouse, though the rates were regulated by the General Assembly. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" So she was put into a large hogshead, and securely fastened up, and then carried on board. Stories of New Jersey Before daylight his men had carried through the woods and over the hills to the mouth of the sap, opposite the southern angle of the priest-cap, enough sugar hogsheads to make two tiers. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I’ll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 He gazes up at the huge mud-brown structures that resemble hogsheads affixed to the forks of the branches, and he knows that the luscious termites are filling them to overflowing. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America At the beginning of the nineteenth century rent per hogshead, including a year's storage, was twenty-five cents. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" But Elizabeth did not go back to her hogshead. Stories of New Jersey The heads had been knocked in, a long pole thrust through each hogshead, and thus slung, it was easy for two mounted troopers to carry it between them. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps Behind the spacious bar stood immense vats containing whole hogsheads of ardent spirits. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Most of this is used here, the leaf for manufacture abroad being exported in hogsheads for cutting in any form desired. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Approximately 10,000 hogsheads of tobacco were destroyed before these riots were put down by the militia. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" If she had ever thought of a marriage with a high-born Swede, Elizabeth gave up all such notions when she entered her hogshead, and left all her proud hopes behind her. Stories of New Jersey On board her, there was 30 casks of brandy, 5 hogsheads of wine, several pieces of chintz, and 70l. in money, all of which they took, only Lowther return’d the French Master five pounds again. Pirates Sometimes they would lead him into a fight and then beat him black and blue, and sometimes they would nail the stranger into a hogshead and roll him down a steep hill. Historic Boyhoods Thousands of hogsheads, cases, and bales are annually shipped to all parts of the world and the demand for American tobacco is greater than for the varieties grown in the Old World. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Several thousand hogsheads of tobacco shipped on consignment in 1704 brought no return at all, and the next year many of the planters sold their tobacco for one-fourth of a penny per pound. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" As if he was perfectly familiar with the way, Ben went among the boxes to the farther end of the yard, where there was a hogshead and a large packing-case close together. Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy This strong drink was metheglin, of which two hogsheads were to be delivered at Plymouth. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The students wandered through the halls and subterranean vaults till they came to the famous tun, which is thirty-six feet long, and twenty-four feet high, having a capacity of eight hundred hogsheads. Down the Rhine Young America in Germany These last are not packed into hogsheads, but are sent loose, and sold without the trouble of prizing, in the nearest market-town. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce It loosened the cargo, consisting in part of hogsheads of molasses; and they rolled down into the deep water. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock He pulled the case a few inches aside—for it had been placed directly in front of the hogshead—and whispered, “Get in, quick!” Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy In 1671 five hundred hogsheads were made of one orchard's produce. Customs and Fashions in Old New England My grandfather got his ale, of the sort just then beginning to be made—called “Jamaica,” because a 143quantity of the cheap sugar refuse from the hogsheads was used in its production. The Dew of Their Youth Of late years some planters have been guilty of 'nesting,' or placing prime leaf around the outer part and an inferior article in the center of the hogshead. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce It was part of my duty to repair thither once a week with a Scotch cart and fetch two hogsheads full. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Paul obeyed, hardly believing that this could be the real estate his companions had spoken of, and Ben followed him, pulling the box against the hogshead again so adroitly as to betoken considerable practice. Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy The Rain Water Doctor worked wondrous miracles, and did a vast and lucrative business until he was unluckily drowned in a hogshead of his own medicine at his own door. Customs and Fashions in Old New England We put on a hogshead of sugar, twenty-five hams, a sack of coffee, box of tea, firkin of butter, barrel of potatoes, some hominy, beans, canned fruits, etc. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Each hogshead is branded with the name of the owner, and thus shipped to his commission-merchant, when the hogshead is 'broken' by tearing off a stave, thus exposing the strata of the bulk to view. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce While he was thus employed, the men in the yawl filled two hogsheads and the barricoes, or breakers, with water. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold The hogshead had been lined with old newspapers, and from the fact that quite a quantity of straw covered the bottom, it was easy to see that this was the sleeping-room. Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy Benjamin Martin, a London optician, made a dress of strong leather in 1778 which fitted his arms and legs as well as his trunk, and held half a hogshead of air. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters I backed up against a hogshead of sugar, telling them not to come any nearer to me or I would hurt some of them. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi After tying, the bundles are placed in bulk, and when again 'in order,' are 'prized' or packed into the hogsheads,—no smoothly-planed and iron-hooped cask, by the way, but huge pine structures very roughly made. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce It was resolved to levy an imposition of four shillings per hogshead on the grower of the apple wine and the pear wine. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Then there arose before them the vision of a “regular home,” wherein some one would care for and minister to their comfort, and the advantages of living in a hogshead grew very few indeed. Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy The cellars usually contained numerous hogsheads of claret, whilst stronger wines and whisky were on hand for those of less refined tastes. The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean In an advertisement in a Halifax paper in 1769 are offered for sale to the highest bidder "two hogsheads of rum, three of sugar and two well-grown negro girls aged 14 and 12." The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The tobacco is packed in hogsheads, each one containing twelve hundred pounds, the same as in Virginia and Missouri. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead. Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast When they got back to the hogshead that night, and told Dickey of the important change they were about to make, he read them a very severe lesson on the sinfulness of extravagance. Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy Except the hogsheads of sugar, which would not have been of much use to them, they found very little, I suspect, to repay them for the heavy cost of our capture. Old Jack |
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