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How To Use Hogshead In A Sentence

  • As tobacco cultivation spread westward into Kentucky and Tennessee, annual output increased from 110,000 to 160,000 hogsheads in the years 1790-1860.
  • Because of the remoteness of the site, wooden hogsheads were probably the most efficient means for transporting alcohol; they, unlike bottle glass, would have left few traces.
  • Then how many pints are left when a hogshead is divided by two? THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Tom finds him hiding in a hogshead behind the old slaughterhouse, and tries to get him to return to the Widow's home.
  • The washing-tub stood in the same old place on the same old quarter-hogshead, and her mother, having thrown the sheet aside, was about to plunge her arms in anew.
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  • The Gloucester trade peaked in 1857 with the arrival of twenty vessels carrying imports of 5,000 hogsheads of molasses and 1,000 hogsheads of sugar valued at $400,000.
  • Jamie had planned on visits only to the two Cherokee villages closest to the Treaty Line, there to announce his new position, distribute modest gifts of whisky and tobacco-this last hastily borrowed from Tom Christie, who had fortunately purchased a hogshead of the weed on a seed-buying trip to Cross Creek-and inform the Cherokee that further largesse might be expected when he undertook ambassage to the more distant villages in the autumn. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • City Tavern not only resuscitates these old style beverages; it sells hogsheads of them.
  • Belcher Brothers & Co. names its 84 gallon line a ‘puncheon’ and there is a line for a 120 gallon ‘pipe’ as well as a 120 gallon ‘hogshead.’
  • Two barrels, or coombs, make a measure called a hogshead, liquid, or a quarter, dry; each being the quarter of a ton. Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State
  • I also highly recommend Sally Hogshead's Fascinate for more on how to "fascinate" others -- now, when they need it most. Richard Laermer: Seven Signs The Recession's Still Ramming Us
  • As for the rest, he assailed them in their own way, setting whole hogsheads of beer and wine abroach, for the benefit of comers; and into those sordid hearts that liquor would not open, he found means to convey himself by the help of a golden key. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
  • These were now there, in all their sail variety, in that half-barrel, or call it bushel, which loomed a hogshead in my view, when my chief left it to file. Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship
  • When the hogsheads were full of the crudely cured, moist, and impure "muscovado" sugar, they were headed up and sent to port. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
  • In 1754 Maryland residents celebrated the twenty-third birthday of Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore, with a ball, cannon fire, a bonfire on the common, and a hogshead of punch.
  • Within months he had joined forces with him to make their first large shipment to London: 48 hogsheads and a quarter cask, sent to Robert Blake Byass, who was to become their UK agent.
  • People were also smiling at Al, as he trudged up the hill with his accordion on his back and a hogshead of beer at his side.
  • ** 40 rods*** to the hogshead is the equivalent of 10.48 feet to the gallon, which may or may not say volumes about McCain's energy policy. The Inverse Square Blog
  • Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a law professor and senior director for advocacy with the Women's Sports Foundation, said female participation in sports is the most effective remedy against obesity and leads to more education and better employment prospects — including in fields traditionally dominated by men. Department of Education repeals Bush-era policy on Title IX
  • He continued to grow limited amounts of coffee, however, and retained two skilled slaves to construct the hogsheads and barrels needed to ship his much diminished crop to port.
  • Thus ‘… if the party deceased were of good note, they will send to the wake hogsheads of excellent stale beer and wine from all parts, with other provisions, as beef & c.’
  • Wine-maker Geoff Merrill then matures it in American oak hogsheads for two years.
  • Aye, aye, bo, right you were," answered the brawny foretopman as he knocked in the head of another hogshead. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
  • A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew's motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups. Quentin Durward
  • Next it is "bulked," or put into bundles, and these again dried, and afterwards "conditioned," and packed in hogsheads weighing from six hundred to a thousand pounds each. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
  • A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew’s motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups. Quentin Durward
  • Turns out a Hogshead is a unit of measure equal to 2 barrels of wine.
  • If you were to begin now, and to take two or three tumblersful as I do, by the time you are my age, you would have drunk fifty hogsheads of rum, and I don't know how many tons of water. The Three Midshipmen
  • In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers. Ivanhoe
  • I always wondered why two pipes in liquid measure were called a hogshead; now I know; it was on account of their great capacity.” Memories and Anecdotes
  • But numerous cards depict slaves picking tobacco, pressing it into hogsheads for transport, and sometimes consuming it.
  • She makes her presence as clearly felt among a million of her sex as does a grain of fuchsine in a hogshead of water. The Darrow Enigma
  • To a hogshead of wine, add a bowlful of red wine pips dried and then boiled.
  • From the 2s./hhd. duty &c. on tobacco exports, it is possible to calculate the number of hogsheads of tobacco exported annually for the year ending October 25. Leslie V. Brock: The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates
  • He always gave them a hogshead of beer; and they all drank merrily to his health.
  • Other sizes were the firkin, kilderkin and hogshead.
  • Hurriedly, but with practiced ease and an air of calm and surety that she knew would alleviate some of the young man's terror, she pushed aside several hogshead barrels until she reached the back wall of the storeroom.
  • Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
  • Once there, she ducked down into the shadows again and hid behind some hogshead barrels as a few sentinels turned the corner and passed by.
  • She stuck to his heels all the way along, and she beat him black and blue with her tongue, and he looked like a butt of alegar with a hogshead o 'mustard in it. All's Well Alice's Victory
  • To clear Wine: — Take half a pound of hartshorn, and dissolve it in cyder, if it be for cyder, or Rhenish-wine for any liquor: this is enough for a hogshead. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
  • In many patents there is double the quantity of land expressed in the patent, whereby some hundred thousand acres of land are taken up but not planted, which drives away the inhabitants and servants brought up only to planting to seek their fortunes in Carolina and other places, which depopulates the country and prevents the making of many thousand hogsheads of tobacco, to the great diminution of the revenue. Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
  • There is no house to which one would return, having left it, though it were the hogshead out of which one had moved into a kilderkin; for those associations whose perishing leaves us free, and preserves to us what little youth we have, were otherwise perpetuated to our burden and bondage. Suburban Sketches
  • Briscoe explained how she used cannonballs supposedly left behind after the War of 1812 to weigh down tobacco in hogshead barrels. Oral history project offers firsthand recollections of Calvert's past
  • An inventory of Okeman's works near Poole in Dorset, dated November 1583, records 55 hogsheads of copperas, along with the equipment for manufacturing alum and copperas.
  • She was not quite the "hogshead" the landlord declared her to be, but she was one of the worst cases of dropsy I had ever seen. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story
  • There were also on each side of this deck, cabins for the marine soldiers, and twenty stables for horses; in the forecastle was a fresh-water cistern which held 253 hogsheads; and near it was a large tank of sea-water, in which fish were kept. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
  • Also, if you eat at pubs like the Hogshead or a Wetherspoon, take advantage of their condiment selection - you never know when a sachet of mustard, ketchup or mayonnaise might come in handy.
  • But that's what Simmons and her contemporaries did, scumming away to ensure clean sugar even when the cone it came from was made from the dregs of a hogshead. Andrew Beahrs: Birth of an American Cookie

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