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

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)

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

I don't believe in your new-fangled ways and new-fangled ideas—in and out like a frog in a gallipot.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace