porringer

How To Use porringer In A Sentence

• He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• Once the final notes of ‘Hey Sailor’ had been played, we all clapped, and Batcha's galley-maid and another kitchen-hand sent porringers of vegetable slumgullion down the long tables for our evening meal.
• And while he sat in this state behold, up came the husband man, with a great porringer of lentils67 and a nose-bag full of barley and seeing the pavilion pitched and the Mamelukes standing, hands upon breasts, thought that the Sultan was come and had halted on that stead. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• His conscience, like the unnest-porringer. ling of a parcel of young His desire, like six trusses of hay. herons. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Thereupon the peasant took the porringer full of gold and returned to the village, driving the bulls before him and deeming himself akin to the King. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• For others, well, the catalog is a gateway to the material culture of the colonial past in North America, featuring everything from tinware lanterns and redware porringers to clothing and patterns, even 18th-century scissors for do-it-yourselfers. Applause for Re-Enactors
• It should be stated that the word porringer, as used by English collectors, usually refers to a deep cup with a cover and two handles, while what we call porringers are known to these collectors as bleeding-basins or tasters. Home Life in Colonial Days
• Abu Kir and found he had eaten all that was in the porringer and thrown it aside, empty. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Although porringers were often made of pewter, this specimen is a fragmentary shallow brass dish with a decorative handle that measured approximately 14 cm in diameter.
• the child was eating pottage from a porringer