gallipots

Harriet turned to the desk and began to clear away the small paraphernalia -- swabs, scissors, gallipots -- she cleaned them all in turn and returned them where they belonged, then returned to restore the desk to its original state of ordered chaos.

Politics 101 2010

The call was overwhelming; he could endure Grimstad and the gallipots no longer.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

The call was overwhelming; he could endure Grimstad and the gallipots no longer.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Mrs Bangham, expert in sudden device, with one hand fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf, and with the other set traps of vinegar and sugar in gallipots; at the same time enunciating sentiments of an encouraging and congratulatory nature, adapted to the occasion.

Little Dorrit 2007

With the flies a falling into the gallipots by fifties!

Little Dorrit 2007

There are brushes, palettes, and gallipots full of paint and varnish.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Denied the sun, and all comfort: all my visiters low-born, tip-toe attendants: even those tip-toe slaves never approaching me but periodically, armed with gallipots, boluses, and cephalic draughts; delivering their orders to me in hated whispers; and answering other curtain-holding impertinents, inquiring how I was, and how I took their execrable potions, whisperingly too!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

So drop them on paper; you may have some white, and some marble, with specks of colours, with the point of a pin; keep your colours severally in little gallipots.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

I could give up the gallipots and farm a few acres of my own land.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

He was under no special debt of gratitude to the lord, having given as much as he had taken in the long intercourse which had existed between them — and he agreed with his son in thinking that if there was to be a Liberal candidate at Loughshane, no consideration of old pill-boxes and gallipots should deter his son Phineas from standing.

Phineas Finn 2004