How To Use Rockery In A Sentence
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A cornucopia of flowers bursts through rockery walls.
What Does A $75 Million Luxury House Look Like?
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Quarried stone is used mainly for the production of roof tiles and other heritage products rather than garden rockery stone or sand and gravel.
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It is in lawn and includes mature trees and shrubs, herbaceous borders, a rockery and a water feature.
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The most commonly planted rockery flowers are aubretia and alyssum.
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Items stolen include a set of Royal Doulton crockery in white with a light green pattern.
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I had a slight accident at home and broke some crockery.
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Arthur had made a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their sombre setting.
The Second Chance
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And just what did the people at the next table say when a dislodged piece of fish landed among their crockery?
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I had a slight accident at home and broke some crockery.
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Outside, the back garden is landscaped with a rockery area, lawn, patio area and gravelled area incorporating shrubs and climbers.
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She would go to jumble sales and buy old crockery that she would take home and throw, piece by piece, against the wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can trace history by finding cod bottles, ceramic beer bottles and jars, numerous items of crockery and even clay pipes.
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All of the crockery was chipped, and what little silver they possessed was tarnished to a dull black.
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Inside the room one corner was taken up with a deep enamel sink and a small cupboard above for crockery.
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Nothing is safe from this porcelain peccant pilferer, this corrupt criminal crockery, for the moment you turn your back, this amazing Ash Tray will abscond with all your electronic posessions and sell them on ebay.
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You also can plant sandwort in a dry spot such as a rockery or the top of a wall.
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They house all the glass and crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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A seaside council which stripped deckchairs, crockery, kettles and hotplates out of its chalets to save money is putting them in a museum ready for the day they become collector's items.
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The production of crockery, cutlery and toys was severely curtailed as inessentials.
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Not a blanket, a pillow, a piece of cutlery or crockery remained.
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Furthermore, new crockery is needed, some of the men drinking out of empty tins at present.
Work Camp 11072 GW
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Opposite her was a small washstand with a coarse crockery toilet set on a fake marble top.
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After a period of time, a building is not all of one age but a bionic composite of different eras, as are the rockery, the water features, the flora, and the architecture of a garden.
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As a hostess she served her guests food with contemporary cutlery off contemporary crockery, all purchased from young designers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crockery has class and the beverages come in real crystal ware.
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Gardens with an extensive herbaceous border, feature lawns, rockery and Victorian kitchen garden.
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And need I point out that a pony’s hoof is just about the perfect implement for crushing fragile crockery?
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Not a blanket, a pillow, a piece of cutlery or crockery remained.
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I had a friend who was a lodger and was given plastic crockery and cutlery to use.
Times, Sunday Times
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We wouldn't have minded, but she put all our cutlery and crockery away in the wrong places, causing much angst upon our return.
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Simple displays that emphasise the activities of the household, such as an armoire stacked with an assortment of crockery, can be used to provide a restorative background.
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We loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme.
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A really artistic rockery should have the composition and contrast of a painting.
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Likewise the proposed Motor Pool Improvement, on account of a shard of Colonial crockery.
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They smashed windows, three microwave ovens, tables, chairs, a breakfast bar and crockery.
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Holiday lets must be fully furnished and have a kitchen stocked with crockery and cutlery.
Times, Sunday Times
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When they arrived, the 100 ft-long rockery was smothered by undergrowth and the Japanese acers were invisible to the eye.
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The most commonly planted rockery flowers are aubretia and alyssum.
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The third, at the end of the passage, I called the 'boxroom', as it was used to accommodate bits of broken furniture, abandoned crockery, outdated telephone directories and unwanted presents from our (long-ago) wedding.
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
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Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Make you sure you wash up with hot, soapy water, and let crockery air-dry if possible.
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It had butlers and waiters, and served the most marvellous tea in a proper dining carriage with tablecloths, elegant crockery and cutlery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly, King looked not fashionably late to the party, but awkwardly, disastrously late, swinging gaily through the doors just as the caterers were starting to pack up the crockery.
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No two pieces of our everyday crockery match.
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Use proper cutlery and crockery, not disposable, and avoid individually wrapped portions.
Times, Sunday Times
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She would go to jumble sales and buy old crockery that she would take home and throw, piece by piece, against the wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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They filled two trolleys with crockery, kettles, pots and pans and all the other impedimenta needed to kit out a new home.
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he asked as he sank onto the old wooden seat beside Rose's prized rockery.
JUST BETWEEN US
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In the interests of marital harmony I should go along with the plain white crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had a slight accident at home and broke some crockery.
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The experience helped convince him of the benefits of a matching set of curved cutlery and crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hike leaves from Silvermine Reserve (entrance R15 per adult) and took us roughly 40 minutes to cover the walk through spiderwebs, fynbos and rockery.
Elephants Eye
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From the picturesque splattering of autumn leaves on the dinner plates to sprinkle of tulips etched out on the grooved wine glasses, your crockery will now have a touch of elegance and sparkle.
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I wish to point out that a wrong perception could have been created by a report in today's Stop Press edition of The Argus, namely that Ministers are being paid R6 340 a month for gardening, domestic services, insurance and other running costs such as kitchenware and crockery.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In a few minutes the signs of German havoc would be hidden behind stacks of crockery and household utensils, and some of the pale women we had left in mournful contemplation of the ruins would be bargaining as sharply as ever for a sauce-pan or a butter-tub.
Fighting France
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+ (4) The refectorian, who had charge of the frater, or refectory and its furniture, including such things as crockery, cloths, dishes, spoons, forks, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The bungalow was tiny, consisting of one bedroom, a living room, bathroom, a small cubbyhole where the kitchen crockery and utensils were kept, and an airy verandah which went round two sides of the building.
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Among the accessories were cookware and crockery, trolleys and storage racks, dustbins and garbage disposers, carpets and cleaning supplies, kitchen hardware and ventilators.
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It seemed to come from the small apple orchard that lay beyond the rockery.
COMPULSION
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Then all of a sudden there was a sound like smashing crockery, and the planes come diving out of the clouds.
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She came to a stop by colliding with the kitchen draining board, sending her host's crockery crashing to the floor.
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The experience helped convince him of the benefits of a matching set of curved cutlery and crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also produced cutlery and crockery, much of which is still manufactured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the whole stressful ordeal the employee should also have had time to notice if there were: street, house or office noises in the background, whether there were animal sounds, or even the chink of crockery.
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We are likely to use crockery in place of plastic disposables,’ says Jinghan.
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We could all see last week at PMQs that crockery had been thrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge.
Crock-Pot Chef Fed Slow-Cook Craze
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Well, except for a certain jar, I don't know what kind of crockery was in the Bush family home, but I've never seen a crescent bowl.
Harry Shearer: Fact-Checking the Bush Memoir: New Orleans
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I was explaining how you get more crockery in if you nest the little bowls inside the big bowls when I sensed that Mel was somehow not with me.
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The paintwork is picked out in that shade of diluted pea green that used to be reserved for institutional crockery – the sort that bounced when you dropped it.
Restaurant review: Butley Orford Oysterage
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Miss Prosody, quite genial and urbane after luncheon, was deep in consultation with the boatman as to the locality of certain ferns she proposed spudding up for her pet rockery at "The Maples," where her lighter hours were diurnally spent in washing and tending her spoils.
Bluebell A Novel
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So in effect the word crockery covers everything from bowls and plates to lasagne dishes and vegetable serving bowls, providing they aren't glass.
Undefined
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A plantswoman's garden created over the past 12 years, it has roses, a pond, a rockery, and herbaceous borders, all in less than one acre.
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Our silesian ‘buff’ Sandstone is used for paving, walling, facing stones, coigns, flagstones, rockery stones, walling and crazy paving.
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By the garden rockery, pavilion, a fish pond, and an ancient two story Western - style architectural synthesis.
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Freeshots Feilbogen in his rockery garden with the costard?
Finnegans Wake
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She was quite overcome by it all, real bone china crockery, real silver wear.
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The ashes from the house and the log-heaps were either leached at home, and the lye boiled down in the large potash kettles ” of which almost every farmer had one or two ” and converted into potash, or became a perquisite of the wife, and were carried to the ashery, where they were exchanged for crockery or something for the house.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
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Their workmen had trespassed onto the Gregorys' property, uprooted shrubs, removed rockery stones and trampled down plants.
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All the upgraded meals are served on the same crockery and cutlery as Club World.
The Sun
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A seaside council which stripped deckchairs, crockery, kettles and hotplates out of its chalets to save money is putting them in a museum ready for the day they become collector's items.
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Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it is entirely possible to teach the child too thoroughly in this respect and to make him so fond of his jingling pennies safe within a yellow crockery pig or iron cupolaed mansion that be will not spend them for any object, however laudable.
Study of Child Life
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There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks.
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Oh, never mind," laughed the doctor, piling the dusty dishes in a pan for washing, "we'll just set the crockery up in this cullender to drain dry.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
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When they are finished, my crockery and glassware are shattered, my kitchen shelves and cupboards are broken, the food in my pantry is poisoned, and even my house is wrecked.
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The dresser was covered with crockery and pipkins, willow pattern plates, and tea-cups and mugs.
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A little past the grotto is another small piece of water, springing from the centre of which is a rockery tastefully covered with ferns, and forming the pedestal to two statues of children, a boy and girl, the boy holding an umbrella over the girl's head; the trees around cover them with a deep shadow, and the tout ensemble is very pretty and shows great taste.
Three Months in the Soudan
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We walk up the narrow path through a rockery; the plants are mostly succulents, partially shaded by pepper trees, tamarisks, ngaios.
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She put in a new kitchen, bought second-hand furniture and stocked the café with crockery and cutlery belonging to her grandfather who had died a year earlier.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of special features of the site is the rockery to the rear built around a granite dolmen and a variety of mature trees.
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She also makes her pickles in crockery, which makes better pickles, according to her.
Waldo Jaquith - Homemade pickles.
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He was said to have smashed crockery at a dinner party.
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This was far from the usual white ceramic of crockery central casting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem was that if you invited them for dinner they'd end up having a row and throwing the crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Towards the end of the tape the sound of breaking glass and crockery lends credence to the theory that passengers rushed the aisle with the food trolley.
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She probably wants to throw crockery around and get it all out of her system.
The Sun
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If you don't live where ferns thrive, you can adapt the idea, using other low growers such as sedums, succulents, rockery plants, or well-mannered ground covers.
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And in each room was the same kind of blundering half-arrangement of furniture, and fire-irons and crockery, and all sorts of odd things on the floor, but there was nothing to eat; even in the pantry there were only a rusty cake-tin and a broken plate with whitening mixed in it.
The Railway Children
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Oh well, there's always time later for weekly fire inspections and condemnation/fines after this MLS crockery is flogged to death.
Stimulus galore (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Everything had to be humped up and down countless stairs to get into the room - tables, chairs, the dozen or more boxes of crockery, all the catering equipment, and the well-stocked bar too.
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Some items such as crockery were left behind because they had been damaged.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Mum used to get cross if he broke any of her crockery.
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The absence of cutlery and crockery leaves no reason to entertain at home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accommodation in the economy units have no cutlery and crockery.
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He almost laughs when he sees what it really is - a small lawn, with a rockery and kitchen garden beyond.
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At about 1am neighbours called police after fighting spilled into the street and their homes were pelted with bottles and crockery.
The Sun
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Crockery, pictures and horse brasses cover the white walls with black wood beams and a quiz poker game tries to woo those with a spare 50p in their pocket with its flashing lights.
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Not in the crockery or the paintwork or the lighting – none of which looks like it has altered much.
Restaurant review: Butley Orford Oysterage
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Cups, cutlery and crockery are straightforward.
The Sun
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Where would be all this fine crockery work for your breakfast? you might pop your head under a pump, or drink out of your own paw; what would you do for that fine jemmy tye?
Cecilia
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The garden is completed by tall jacaranda trees, conifers, and in the rockery just below the house, is a tumble of lavender, plumbago, rosemary, agapanthus, hibiscus and hydrangeas.
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He also produced cutlery and crockery, much of which is still manufactured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Domestics refused to handle their crockery and cutlery.
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After the zoo started keeping the cranes outdoors in an unfenced area with rockery and a lake, not only did the zoo's cranes become healthier, but many wild birds flew to the zoo.
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A long oak table extended the length of it, on which was a comprehensive collection of crockery, cutlery and unopened bottles of wine and mead.
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The ashes from the house and the log-heaps were either leached at home, and the lye boiled down in the large potash kettles -- of which almost every farmer had one or two -- and converted into potash, or became a perquisite of the wife, and were carried to the ashery, where they were exchanged for crockery or something for the house.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian
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The principal handicraft is the production of stoneware crockery.
The Meseta Purepecha
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The railed front garden has been pebbled and has a central rockery and flowerbeds.
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They had grabbed ten miniature Crown Derby items of crockery and nine Lladro pottery figures.
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His room was a litter of old clothes, dirty crockery and broken furniture.
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The exhibition also features the usual products such as sarees, crockery, bed linen, cosmetics, hosiery and some imported goods.
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I realise not everyone gets excited about crockery, but I've always wanted a red bowl.
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Newlyweds normally have a present list that includes crockery and toasters, but a new alternative could see couples giving goat herds to poor countries as wedding gifts.
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The absence of cutlery and crockery leaves no reason to entertain at home.
Times, Sunday Times
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All day Wednesday, I'd had two convector heaters in my bedroom so it would be cosy and warm while I primped and put on decent London frockery.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Natural granite stone walls provide seclusion, and the area has raised flowerbeds and a rockery stocked with a variety of plants and shrubs.
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She could hear him pottering about the adjoining room, arranging crockery and cutlery.
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When I was little the word crockery used to […] 15 January, 2009 (00: 00) | By: BillNBPI
Undefined
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The crockery has class and the beverages come in real crystal ware.
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I made for the Bois de Boulogne, there to find, instead of the old rabbit-and-roebuck-haunted thickets and ferneries and impenetrable growth, a huge artificial lake, with row-boats and skiffs, and a rockery that would have held its own in Rosherville gardens.
Peter Ibbetson
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Wedgwood greatly improved the clumsy ordinary crockery of the day, introducing durable, simple and regular wares.
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With a myriad of designs on the chinaware, customers can pick and choose crockery that will lend a touch of sophistication and elegance.
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She seemed to think that if she couldn't throw at least one tantrum, have one storm of weeping and break at least five pieces of crockery the day wasn't complete.
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It spanned the lake across which could be seen the rockery and the summer house, each surrounded by colourful blooms.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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There's no real feeling of a barrier between you and the animals (except the highly dangerous big-cats and eagles), with water barriers and a kind of rockery-barrier-meets-electric-fence thing.
Planet Python
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The coastal cliffs and headlands form a natural rockery where primrose, roseroot, thrift, bladder campion, mountain avens, marram grass, violets and spring squills may be found.
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I was explaining how you get more crockery in if you nest the little bowls inside the big bowls when I sensed that Mel was somehow not with me.
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The front garden is a seventies-style huge rockery smothered in aubretia which, at this time of year, is a riot of colour.
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The dish was excellently presented on the crisp linen table cloth in plain white crockery with a Thai flower for decoration.
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His motor-'bus was passing through a region unknown to him -- one of those regions where raw vegetables and meat, varied with crockery and old books, exuberate into booths and stalls along the pavement, and salesmen shout to the heedless passer-by prophetic warnings of opportunities eternally lost.
Essays in Rebellion
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I had a friend who was a lodger and was given plastic crockery and cutlery to use.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you look up the word crockery the definition reads; China dishes or Earthenware vessels collectively, another returns, tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively.
Undefined
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Newlyweds normally have a present list that includes crockery and toasters, but a new alternative could see couples giving goat herds to poor countries as wedding gifts.
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Holiday lets must be fully furnished and have a kitchen stocked with crockery and cutlery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The floor is covered with smashed crockery from the dresser.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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This not only includes basic furniture items, but a ‘homeowner's pack’ of cutlery, crockery, basic pans and bathroom accessories.
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Much of the china clay went to the Potteries of Staffordshire to be made into crockery - cups, saucers and plates.
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Use proper cutlery and crockery, not disposable, and avoid individually wrapped portions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Presently, armed with an order to view, she was standing in the old-fashioned long drawing-room with its two french windows giving on to a flagged terrace in front of which a kind of rockery interspersed with flowering shrubs fell sharply to a stretch of lawn below.
Sleeping Murder
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Several months ago I had to ask the current owner to remove a limb from my rockery and he informed me that Council allow him to lop this tree.
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It also houses hundreds of thousands of items of railway memorabilia, including tickets, nameplates, silver and crockery, drawings, posters and works of art.
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The nursery, shaded by fine old Lucombe Oaks, was famous for its ‘Wonder of the West’ strain of cinerarias, calceolarias, and an extensive rockery.
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At about 1am neighbours called police after fighting spilled into the street and their homes were pelted with bottles and crockery.
The Sun
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You can trace history by finding cod bottles, ceramic beer bottles and jars, numerous items of crockery and even clay pipes.
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Near the sycamore, where an old oak had fallen, the rotting stump was hidden by a high "rockery," edged with conch shells, and over the rough gray rocks a tangle of garden flowers ran wild -- sweet-william, petunias, phlox, and the mossy stems of red and yellow portulaca.
The Voice of the People
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The crockery, stainless steel and cutlery have all been revamped and main meals will now be served with a linen napkin.
The Sun
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There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks.
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The scattered fragments of crockery and the aroma of the wasted nectar marked the melancholy wreck of our Christmas cheer.
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The youth group is collecting cracked and unwanted crockery for their china smashing stall, and a box for donations is in the church.
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She was plunged in a state of ecstasy, when suddenly, from the rear of the artificial rockery, egressed a person, who approached her and facing her said,
Hung Lou Meng
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I can keep my crockery, glasses, pots and pans in the cupboards.
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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While you are about it, why not hire all the cutlery and crockery, too?
Times, Sunday Times
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The sink, dishwasher, fridge and so on are all either built behind the oversized cupboard that holds the crockery and also partitions the room, or behind one of the old doors that are no longer used.
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To be served the meals on clean glazed crockery instead of the ubiquitous melamine is even more amazing.
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A rockery is a part of the place in which plants are grown in pockets between rocks.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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Expensive cutlery, crockery and cooking utensils were stored in shiny white cupboards, with the lighting hidden in strips behind cornicing.
Above Suspicion
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Out go starched linens, in comes homespun crockery.
Times, Sunday Times
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This "rockery," as it is called, is clothed in summer with verdure and flowers, and from its summit one finds an extended and charming view of the village, with its cottages, its workshops, and the villas of the proprietors of the latter.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885
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In several rooms, large amounts of crockery were distinguishable.
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The crockery is fired and glazed earthenware and the cutlery an inexpensive style.
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As a hostess she served her guests food with contemporary cutlery off contemporary crockery, all purchased from young designers.
Times, Sunday Times
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So they "pigged" still, although they did not defile the furniture with unwashed hands, and the plate and crockery with greasy dish-cloths.
Sisters
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So I have four place settings of cheap crockery, one pan, and two serving dishes.
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Then there is the chance that, even if the chef is not suffering from the aftershocks of an overdose of ouzo, there may be no crockery left to serve it on.
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“I was trying to straighten the gasolier,” Will said crossly, sitting up and brushing crockery bits off his shirt.
Clockwork Angel
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EVERY time I wash up a batch of crockery I marvel at the unimaginativeness of human beings who can travel under the sea and fly through the clouds, and yet have not known how to eliminate this sordid time-wasting drudgery from their daily lives.
As I Please
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Cups, cutlery and crockery are straightforward.
The Sun
