My mother used to make yoghurt in an wee electrical device with 6 or 8 pottles love that word! which she would make in the evening and would be ready for breakfast the next morning. ❋ Unknown (2005)
"Uf one pottle don'd gure you, der dree pottles vill -- or kill you, und nopody vill mindt dot." ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
Dot medicine gost me ninedy-dree cends a pottle, und I don'd ged a cend discoundt uf I puy dwo pottles. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
Baskets, something like exaggerated strawberry pottles of the old conical shape, are prepared, to hold each about a dozen birds. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
But this, no doubt, was pottles of straw, which, out of spite, had been cast down it by a neighbor. ❋ Unknown (1883)
There were high oblong baskets big enough to hold me, but besides these there were piles upon piles of round flat baskets of two sizes, and hanging to the side of one of the sheds great bunches of white wood strawberry pottles, looking at a distance like some kind of giant flower, all in elongated buds. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
How delicious they smelt in the old-fashioned pottles which we never see now -- long narrow cones, with a cross-handle, over which, when filled, or supposed to be filled, for a big strawberry would block up the narrow part of the cone at times, a few leaves were placed, and then a piece of white paper was tied over with a bit of bast. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
-- 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. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
-- Then the Van Grolls, of Antony's Nose, who carried their liquor in fair, round little pottles, by reason they could not house it out of their canteens, having such rare long noses. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
-- 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. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
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. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)
The strawberries, set out in little pottles made with the shining leaves of the oak, ingeniously pinned together by Catharine with the long spurs of the hawthorn, were voted delicious, and the pure water most refreshing, that they drank, for lack of better cups, from a large mussel-shell which Catharine had picked up among the weeds and pebbles on the beach. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
Fetch up your pipkins and pottles, dust off your thirken, it's out with the new in gastronomy, and in with the old. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And now are the hearty men of the Manhattoes, and their no less hearty comrades, all lustily engaged under the trees, buffeting stoutly with the contents of their wallets, and taking such affectionate embraces of their canteens and pottles as though they verily believed they were to be the last. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
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. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
Toppings: Bananas, real-fruit yoghurt (buy in 1kg pottles), grapes, other kinds of fresh and dried fruit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
