gallipot

Example Sentences

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He nevertheless determined to fill the gallipot with hot water and give this gargle to Nell to drink.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

I’d have no objection if you were, so that you’d capture me from that frightful gallipot!

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz

It was enclosed in a gallipot, and was what I believe they called an electuary.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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)

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