punch-bowls

Jorgan followed Mrs. Raybrock into the little, low back-room, — decorated with divers plants in pots, tea-trays, old china teapots, and punch-bowls, — which was at once the private sitting-room of the Raybrock family and the inner cabinet of the post-office of the village of Steepways.

A Message from the Sea 2007

This obscure journalist appeared to lead an expensive life in which petits verres, cups of coffee, punch-bowls, sight-seeing, and suppers played a part.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Jorgan followed Mrs. Raybrock into the little, low back-room, — decorated with divers plants in pots, tea-trays, old china teapots, and punch-bowls, — which was at once the private sitting-room of the Raybrock family and the inner cabinet of the post-office of the village of Steepways.

A Message from the Sea 2007

The plump landlady from her bar, surrounded by her china and punch-bowls, and stout gilded bottles of strong waters, and glittering rows of silver flagons, looked kindly after the young gentleman as he passed through the inn-hall from his post-chaise, and the obsequious chamberlain bowed him upstairs to the Rose or the Dolphin.

The Virginians 2006

His lot had lain amongst fox-hunting Virginian squires, with whose society he had put up very contentedly, riding their horses, living their lives, and sharing their punch-bowls.

The Virginians 2006

After the wedding the punch-bowls were arranged in the sideboard with the big bowl in the centre; the glasses were set up in the china-closet; the candlesticks were put at both ends of things — and then the struggle for existence began.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

On all sides are rocks and mountains rough and stony; so you find yourself in another of those punch-bowls which the Arabs seem to consider choice sites for settlements. 20 The Fiumara, hereabouts very winding, threads the high grounds all the way down from the plateau of

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

As for silver, the iron closet which had been made in the dining-room wall was running over with it: tea-kettles, coffee-pots, heavy-lidded tankards, chafing-dishes, punch-bowls, all that all the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

Travellers are shown the devil's bites, the devil's gaps, and the devil's punch-bowls, over nearly every part of the country.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

A room with thin-legged chairs, with cupboards whose lozens gave view to punch-bowls and rummers and silver ladles, a room where the two brothers would convene at night while John was elsewhere, and in a wan candle light sit silent by the hour before cooling spirits, musing on other parlours elsewhere in which spurs had jingled under the board, musing on comrades departed.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro