They scarcely deserve to be called the pothooks and hangers of an education. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
On them were hung iron hooks or chains with hooks of various lengths called pothooks, trammels, hakes, pot-hangers, pot-claws, pot-clips, pot-brakes, pot-crooks. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Across the fireplace hung an iron crane, which swung on a hinge or pivot, from which hung a large number of what were called pothooks and trammels. ❋ George Frisbie Hoar (1865)
Another sister, Lady Hobby -- whose husband resided at Bisham Abbey, a fine old place, maintained in admirable repair, near Windsor -- was a terrible disciplinarian, and there is an ugly story of her having whipped a wretched son of hers into his grave, from exasperation at his inability to make his "pothooks," when she was teaching him writing, without blots. ❋ Various (N/A)
She and Nancy corresponded daily in the "pothooks," as Jennie Bruce called the stenographic signs. ❋ Amy Bell Marlowe (N/A)
But as this class met only twice a week, Edward, impatient to learn the art of "pothooks" as quickly as possible, supplemented this instruction by a course given on two other evenings at moderate cost by a Brooklyn business college. ❋ Edward William Bok (1896)
Cross stitch and stem stitch, fore stitch and back stitch and pothooks of every conceivable kind, devilishly devised in order to give the absurdity a semblance of meaning. ❋ David McDuff (2010)
An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street — though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick – and – mortar pothooks — reminded me still more of ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sir Henry; “they have been undisturbed for many a day, and I have often wished for some person as well skilled as you in these old pothooks, to tell me their meaning.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
A smile twisted his lips and eyebrows which resembled spinneys of dark pothooks. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Pretending to kick against the pot, he muttered a curse, and seizing it by the pothooks, dashed its contents full at the hole. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Written always by a third person, in an unfamiliar hand ... as was only to be expected, considering that the twins still struggled with pothooks and hangers ... they yet gave abundant proof of their authorship. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At this unwontedly late hour the elderly sisters were still sitting in their warm kitchen; there were bright coals under the singing tea-kettle which hung from the crane by three or four long pothooks. ❋ Unknown (1996)
At his trial the prosecutor swore that between the hours of eleven and one of the dock of the night laid in the indictment he was called up by his neighbours, and found that his window was broken open; whereupon, searching about very narrowly, he at last found the prisoner got up the chimney, and landing on the pole whereon the pothooks hung. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)
Peggy, -- is good at using pothooks, but not so good at making them. ❋ Various (N/A)
There was no answer to be had, so he let the matter drop, temporarily, though his shorthand notebook received another deeply underlined series of pothooks. ❋ Anne Austin (N/A)
With saw-bucks an 'crosses and pothooks, an' _w's, x's, y's_ an '_z's_. ❋ Various (N/A)
And for the uses thereof, he prepared divers vessels of brass, cauldrons, tongs, fleshhooks, pothooks and firepans. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
He finished the others in a variety of huge pothooks with blackly crossed "T's" and dotted "I's," and viewed the result of his labors with great satisfaction. ❋ Herman Gastrell Seely (N/A)
