gallipot

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Only at the bottom of the small gallipot which the missionary had given him in Khartûm there lay a little white powder which would scarcely suffice for whitening the tip of a finger.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Patrick's bird's water freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

"It is a pretty place," he adds, "though nothing to frighten any body, unless he hath lived in a gallipot."

From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Great hackney-coaches, sunk at the waist like those old gallipot boats of ours, went ploughing past through the mud of mid-road, with bepowdered footmen clinging behind and saucy coachmen perched in front.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

To keep that old gallipot from shipping seas in the tempest of billows was a more ticklish task than rope-walking a whirlpool or sacking a city.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)