gallipot
Example Sentences
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Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow—the Scots' gallipot purveyor—Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey Random—how did the fellow call his rubbish?
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
For years I have been but a gallipot for you experimentizers to rinse your experiments into, and now, in this livid skin, partake of the nature of my contents.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Mrs. King had hurried down-stairs, and at the threshold stood a watery figure, holding out the gallipot.
From Friarswood Post Office by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"Don't know as I ever heard tell of that story," said the man who had spoken first, pouring some hot tea into a gallipot.
From Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout by Robert Leighton
Patrick's bird's water freezes in the gallipot, and my hands in bed.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
