Gallipot

[FOOTNOTE 41: gallipots -- A gallipot was a small ceramic vessel used by apothecaries to hold medicines. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

“He lies, and I will pound him into a gallipot!” said ❋ Unknown (2008)

For my part I cannot understand how a gentleman like Sowerby can like to see his property go into the hands of a gallipot wench whose money smells of bad drugs. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I know very little about it; but the place itself is a pretty one, though nothing to frighten anybody, unless he hath lived in a gallipot. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Mr. Morgan himself enriched this mess with a lump of salt butter scooped from an old gallipot, and a handful of onions shorn, with some pounded pepper. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He pretended to peer into another gallipot and then took off his spectacles to wipe them. ❋ Herbert George (2004)

It was Colligan; and, as the two gigs met in the narrow road, the dirty gallipot took off his hat, and was very sorry to trouble ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mr. Bensington certainly sniffed critically at this disorder, but he made no unnecessary fuss, and even when he found a wasp regaling itself in a gallipot half full of Herakleophorbia IV, he simply remarked mildly that his substance was better sealed from the damp than exposed to the air in that manner. ❋ Herbert George (2004)

Nematoids, and, finding none, they were buried in a small quantity of earth (also carefully examined for the presence of Nematoids or their ova) in a gallipot. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

The doctor, a lank, pock-pitted embodiment of mad chirurgy from books and antique herbal delusions inherited from generations of simple healers, mixed noxious stuff in a gallipot and plumed himself upon some ounces of gore drawn from his victim. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti. ❋ Various (N/A)

Pare a couple of good sized baking apples; core them, cut them into quarters, and put them, with a small strip of thin lemon-rind, into a gallipot. ❋ Various (N/A)

Take new Rosemary Flowers one pound, of white sugar one pound; so beat them together in a Marble Mortar with a wooden Pestle, keep it in a gallipot, or vessel of earth well glassed, or in one of hard stone. ❋ W. M. (N/A)

And she sped away, bringing back an old gallipot, which she filled, and held to the child's lips. ❋ Various (N/A)

Take of each one table-spoonful -- spermaceti grated, honey, and peppermint water; mix all together with the yolks of two eggs in a gallipot. ❋ Charles Elm�� Francatelli (N/A)

A small boy with a switch, a tiny nose, and a swinging gallipot, his cheeks lit with the sunset, followed soon after. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

If flag horfocers I roots of is booted haside to rankle like a lump o 'salt butter in a gallipot,' ow will a poor Scotch lieutenant win hadvancement an 'he be not o' the King's friends? ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

The well-to-do had pretentious monuments which bordered the most considerable avenue; their graves were trim, well-kept, filled with expensive blooms, whilst all that testified to remembrance on the part of the living on the resting-places of the poor were a few wild flowers stuck in a gallipot. ❋ Unknown (1909)