| 单词 | pottle |
| 例句 | To look for a needle in a pottle of hay. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z The accounts of the city at this period contain entries of payments for sugar loaves given to the Recorder for a New Year’s present, and for pottles of wine bestowed on distinguished visitors. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z The evening is wound up with potations, “pottle deep,” of ale and hot elderberry wine, and a loud cheer echoes through the house when the clock strikes twelve. The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 2012-02-11T03:04:02.107Z It will be noted that the ancient measure—a pottle—is here used. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Rare ripe strawberries and Hautboys, sixpence a pottle. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z A thousand pounds and a pottle of hay is all one thing at doomsday. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z My ladies’ gentlewomen were served with “a pottle of beer, three mutton bones boiled, or else a piece of beef boiled.” England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z Now and again a cask of wine and some pottles of olives arrived at Commendone, and occasionally the knight returned the present, sending out bales of Flemish cloth. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z But I had no appetite for earthly things, was jarred by the prosaic gusto with which the mystics threw themselves upon the tureen of red Borsch and the black pottle of brandy. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Only a groat a pottle—full to the bottom! A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Transcriber Notes Archaic spelling preserved, including pottle and alterative. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story “Mr. Maiore and his brethren” enjoyed sugar and sundry pottles of wine. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z "Dear little pottle of whims"—so he had christened her—"what new romance will she weave?" Love's Usuries We hardly know what to compare the snout to, unless it is a very long and thin strawberry pottle, that some wicked boys have been tying over his mouth. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Ripe Strawberries! a groat a pottle, to-day, Only a groat a pottle, is what I say! A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Half a pottle— No more she had got, When out steps a Fairy From her green grot; And says, "Well, Jill, Would 'ee pick 'ee mo?" Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems He had liefer a gold noble and a pottle of canary wine than all the vengeances in purgatory.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) And now for a stave of a song: Hurrah for the free trade!—a shout for the brave Buccaneers!—a pottle of sack!—and now, sir, I am myself again! The Buccaneer A Tale “Let us exorcise your devil with a pottle of hot ale,” he suggested. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Ripe strawberries, a full pottle for a groat! A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z A bright-eyed little German girl presently came trotting along the path with a great basket full of berries on her head arranged in pretty pottles ready for the market. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. "If I had but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle, To knock my nose against when I am nodding, I should sing like a nightingale." Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. As Shakespeare says, ‘The world is my pottle, and I stir my spoon.’ The Associate Hermits Nevertheless it blew cold, and he borrowed a cloak and a pottle of sack to warm the young Poins, who had run with him capless and without a coat. Privy Seal His Last Venture Mulberries, ripe and fresh to-day, They warm and purify the blood; Have them a groat a pottle you may. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z "First, you got some poison in a pottle." The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch One is to find a needle in a pottle of hay; the other, to discover a teller in Division Lobby when no one proposes to tell. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 Strain it through bags of fine cloth, hooped at the mouth, the first holding a gallon, the others a pottle, and each with a basin under it. Early English Meals and Manners There is that woman again: "Strawberries! fourpence a pottle!" Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II Josselyn, writing in 1671, gives a New England dish, which he says is as good as whitpot, made of oatmeal, sugar, spice, and a "pottle of milk;" a pottle was two quarts. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Are not all vegetables abjured, peaches thrown to the pigs, and strawberries ventured upon only by little boys who sweep the streets, with the broom in one hand and the pottle in the other? Olla Podrida None, I protest: but I’ll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse to him, and tell him my name is Brook; only for a jest. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] One had a Seidel to his hand, and one a pewter pot; They drank potations pottle deep, in fact they drank a lot. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 There are further provisions for allowances to the nuns at "Kilborne," and 300 poor who were to have a "loaf of mixed corn" and a "pottle of ale." Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London And still the writers go on talking of joy as if it were a pottle of hay—a flimsy fraud—and of the satisfaction of attainment as if it were unattainable. The Joyful Heart After a year draw in into pottle Glass-bottles stopped with ground stoppels of glass, and keep them in a cool place, till they are ready to drink, if they as yet be not so. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Did I say I had a whole pottle? The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance A pottle of hot sack put my blood into circulation, and having, luckily, a change of raiment in my valise, I am all right again. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Raspberries were very slack, at 2½d. per pottle; but dry goods still brought their prices. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Training has meant so much vital overplus to me that I long ago spurted and caught up with my pottle of joy. The Joyful Heart If a pottle of Barm do not make it work enough to your mind, you may put in a little more. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened "No," says he, "and I canna buy my pottle o' brains, for there's nothing I like best left!" More English Fairy Tales She had thrown it indignantly, pottle and all, into the kitchen fire. Mistress and Maid No fiddles, nor no lusty noise of drawer, carry this pottle to my Father Shorthose. Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The writers would have us think of joy not as a supernal hinge, but as a pottle of hay, hung by a crafty creator before humanity's asinine nose. The Joyful Heart If you have a pottle of Mushrooms, you may put to them ten or twelve spoonfuls of water, and two or three of Salt. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened "Have I got to kill thee, dost think, and take thy heart up to the wise woman for that pottle o' brains?" More English Fairy Tales Then the Van Grolls, of Antony's Nose, who carried their liquor in fair round little pottles, by reason they could not bouse it out of their canteens, having such rare long noses. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete At that season of the year it was like looking for a needle in a pottle of hay, for there was no snow, and equally no herbage, on which a man's foot could leave traces. Pioneers in Canada And then they groan out that all is vanity, and slander joy by calling it a pottle of hay. The Joyful Heart Take your kettle, and put into it a pottle of good White-wine, a quart of Water, and a quart of Vinegar; make it boil, and season it with Salt pretty well. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened "Jest so," says she, looking in the pot; "bring me the heart of the thing thou likest best of all, and I'll tell thee where to get thy pottle o' brains." More English Fairy Tales Then a pottle of sack will doe, here's my hand, prethee thy business? The Scornful Lady By his elbow stood a pottle of spiced ale. The Black Arrow One dispute would shrink a bottle Of three pints, if not a pottle. Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier If you have a pound of them, you may put a pottle of water to them. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened "I've lost the only two things as I cared for, and what else can I find to buy a pottle o' brains with!" and he fair howled, till the tears ran down into his mouth. More English Fairy Tales May I be doomed to fast a whole day if I don't verily believe he would not make above two bites of a shoulder of mutton and one swoop of a whole pottle of wine. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 One never sees a pottle of strawberries now. Endymion She is the confusion of a pottle of sack more than would have been spent elsewhere, and her little jugs are accepted to have her kiss excuse them. Character Writings of the 17th Century Pretty maids a-laughing— Here's to rosy lips, Port and sherry quaffing While the pottle drips. Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse "No; but if I had, maybe I'd have got my pottle o' brains," says he. More English Fairy Tales My Lord of Carlile's sack posset, how it's made: Take a pottle of cream and boil in it a little whole cinnamon and three or four flakes of mace. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come So the unhappy sempstress once, they say, Her needle in a pottle, lost, of hay; In vain she look'd, and look'd, and made her moan, For ah, the needle was forever gone. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 Welcome all who lead or follow To the Oracle of Apollo— Here he speaks out of his pottle, Or the tripos, his tower bottle: All his answers are divine, Truth itself doth Bow in wine. Inns and Taverns of Old London With a rent-roll that told of my houses and land, To her parents I told my designs— And then to herself I presented my hand, With a very fine pottle of pines! The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' brains again, for his wife had enough for both. More English Fairy Tales "It was but one small pottle," said poor Adam, whom consciousness of his own indiscretion now reduced to a merely defensive warfare. The Abbot He'd have a good search to find his needle in such a pottle of hay. What's Bred in the Bone From which and other things I gathered that the men of Maine drank pottle deep before Mr. Neal Dow brought his exertions to a successful termination. North America — Volume 1 When strawberry pottles are common and cheap, Ere elms be black, or limes be sere, When midnight dances are murdering sleep, Then comes in the sweet o' the year! Rhymes a la Mode So he told his mother, and asked her if he could seek the wise woman and buy a pottle o' brains. More English Fairy Tales But your pottle of sack is a fine shoeing-horn to pull on a loyal humour, and a merry one. Kenilworth He had a paper-bag under each arm and a pottle of strawberries in one hand, and was out of breath. Great Expectations Potations, pottle deep, again went round; never did beverage excite greater glee, or meet with more rapturous commendation. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West They were obliged to join him in his "prosnics" or carousals, and to drink "potations pottle deep." Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Baskets, something like exaggerated strawberry pottles of the old conical shape, are prepared, to hold each about a dozen birds. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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