Greedily eyeing the butter-pot hanging from a beam ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)
A packing-case — a coffin, perhaps — took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the other corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in which the various levels of the water remained long marked by these circles of ice. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"I've just put it all down in the butter-pot, so I'm afraid I can't oblige you." ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying by the side of the empty butter-pot, the contents of which he had devoured. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
Mansing had been found sound asleep, several miles back, lying flat by the side of the empty butter-pot. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
A packing-case -- a coffin, perhaps -- took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. ❋ Unknown (1862)
Above him hung a canopy made of an old carpet in which you could distinguish two Cupids in a circle of roses, and at his feet, like a pillar, rose a butter-pot bearing these words in white letters on a chocolate ground: "Executed in the presence of H.R.H. the Duke of Angoulême at Noron, 3rd of October, 1847." ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)
He even went near smashing several tiles, moved an armchair about, descended two steps; and, when they reached the second chamber, they showed him under the canopy, in front of the St. Peter, the butter-pot made at Noron. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)
A packing-case -- a coffin, perhaps -- took the place of a commode, a butter-pot served for a drinking-fountain, a straw mattress served for ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)
My wife was loaded with a large butter-pot for a fresh supply. ❋ Johann David Wyss (1780)
I took the butter-pot; and, after replacing everything, and closing our tent, we resumed our march, with our ludicrous incumbrances. ❋ Johann David Wyss (1780)
The knob in his throat, like a His loins, like a butter-pot. barrel, where hanged two His jaws, like a caudle cup. brazen wens, very fine and His teeth, like a hunter's staff. harmonious, in the shape of an Of such colt's teeth as his, hourglass. you will find one at Colonges ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)
"_when a mastiff plunges his nose into a butter-pot, come and lick his whiskers by way of congratulation. _" ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)
No sooner were these words spoken, when Panurge coming up towards her, after the ceremonial performance of a profound and humble salutation, presented her with six neat’s tongues dried in the smoke, a great butter-pot full of fresh cheese, a borachio furnished with good beverage, and a ram’s cod stored with single pence, newly coined. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The knob in his throat, like a His loins, like a butter-pot. barrel, where hanged two His jaws, like a caudle cup. brazen wens, very fine and His teeth, like a hunter’s staff. harmonious, in the shape of an Of such colt’s teeth as his, hourglass. you will find one at Colonges ❋ Unknown (2002)
