caldron

• Then he lit some spirits of wine under the caldron, and pronounced some magical incantations. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
• However, the caldron was soon set on, and the air was darkened by witches riding on broomsticks, bringing a couple of folios under each arm, and across each shoulder. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• Our dapper little surgeon, with almost dissective inquisitiveness, pried into every nook and corner; and at length reached the slave kitchen, where a caldron was full and bubbling with the most delicious rice. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• I expected to see him, like the giants in fairy stories, rush forward and try to seize me by the nape of the neck, to clap me into his pockets, or his caldron or cavern, or any other receptacle for his victims I'll have a shot at him, at all events, if he makes the attempt, and show him the effects of a good English rifle," said I to myself I was standing under the shade of the wood, close by the trunk of a huge tree. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
• Andrew Stevenson, of Virginia, who was triumphantly re-elected as Speaker for four successive terms, understood well how to keep down the boiling caldron, and to exercise stern authority, tempered with dignity and courtesy, over heated passions of the fiercest conflicting character. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis

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