mustard-pot

• ““I wonder why the burglar wanted mustard, too,” he went on, taking a mustard-pot from another pocket.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• ““Well, well, well!” he exclaimed, in what seemed tremendous surprise; but, even as she spoke, his thoughts were swept away; for he had taken up a mustard-pot and found it empty.”

  The Getting of Wisdom

• “Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.”

  Moby Dick; or the Whale

• “As an instance of the general weariness, it is recorded that a subaltern, during the meal, was asked to pass the mustard, and fell asleep with his arm outstretched and the mustard-pot in his hand.”

  The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland

• “This active principle contains sulphur abundantly, as is proved by the discoloration of a silver spoon when left in the mustard-pot, the black sulphuret of silver being formed.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “The fault lies with his inkhorn; the fault lies with his pen, which mistook the mustard-pot for the honey-jar; 'twill be more careful next time.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864

• “The doctor looked up from his contemplation of the mustard-pot, and it seemed to Esther that his dull eyes met and held the young man's shallow hazel ones for an appreciable space of time.”

  Juggernaut

• “At meals in the Legation canteen, when conversation was unavoidable, they stuck to the stock phrases of official terminology, which, in the familiar atmosphere, appeared grotesque and rather uneasy; it was as though, between requests for salt-cellar and mustard-pot, they called out to each other the catch-words of the latest Congress manifesto.”

  Darkness At Noon

• “There was always a mustard-pot collector in sight.”

  Poor Man's Rock

• “Say, Folly Bay," Jack called across to the mustard-pot carrier, "what are you paying for bluebacks?”

  Poor Man's Rock

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