How To Use pelter In A Sentence
- Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the _essential_ gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
- You are so kind and perfect. Even if pelter couldn't obstruct from our steps of supporting you and your homeland in Thailand.
- Long-faced, lantern-jawed old pelter, with a face like a coffin -- they're the kind you have to look out for; they'd go through you like an electric shock! The Second Chance
- This is the world of the bully and the brigand and assassin, the world of the mud-pelter and brawler, the world of the bent woman, the world of the flea and the fly, the open drain and the baying dog. The Research Magnificent
- the police were too busy to chase the pelters
- But in general, praise has come a poor second to pelters. The Sun
- He said he got pelters left, right and centre for it. The Sun
- A tremendous storm brewing to windward, cut short our intended drive; and, putting the nags to their best pace, we barely succeeded in obtaining shelter ere it burst upon us; and such a pelter as it came down, who ever saw? Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
- This is what is called spelter, or the pig of zinc, and this is what is sold to refiners, who take out all the dross or impurities so it can be rolled or used for galvanizing iron, or for other purposes. The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
- Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to-day; we set off in the donkey-carriage for Farringdon, as I wanted to see the improvements Mr. Woolls is making, but we were obliged to turn back before we got there, but not soon enough to avoid a pelter all the way home. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record