gallipot

Example Sentences

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

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

There was an old gallipot or two, and there was a broken bottle or so, and there were some broken boxes for seats. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

"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)

And she sped away, bringing back an old gallipot, which she filled, and held to the child's lips.

From Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

If a speck of dirt be found on the deck, or a gallipot or phial out of its place, woe betide the loblolly-boy, the assistant-surgeon's assistant, and the constant attendant upon the hospital.

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil