ice-pitcher

“The piece about the Mississippi is capital,” he notified Clemens, “—it almost made the water in our ice-pitcher muddy as it read it…I want the sketches, if you can make them, every month.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

“The piece about the Mississippi is capital,” he notified Clemens, “—it almost made the water in our ice-pitcher muddy as it read it…I want the sketches, if you can make them, every month.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

It almost made the water in our ice-pitcher muddy as I read it.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Presently our patient begins to suffer an intolerable thirst, and runs to the ice-pitcher to quench it.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

She left him walking up and down the veranda, while she ran for the ice-pitcher and a goblet, and when she came back he was still walking up and down, shouting the story he had told her to her father and mother, who had come out more sketchily dressed than they commonly were by day.

Different Girls Various

A gentleman, given somewhat to investigation, made the statement to us, while in St. Paul, that he had carefully watched the ice-pitcher on his table during the summers, and that it was rare that any moisture accumulated upon the outside of the same, as is commonly the case elsewhere.

Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. Ledyard Bill

She set down the ice-pitcher on the veranda floor, and ran up-stairs and got the letter she had written him.

Different Girls Various

Apples taken from trees in a cool day remain at the temperature of the air until a change to a higher temperature occurs, and then condensation of moisture from the warmer air circulating around the fruit occurs, just as moisture gathers upon the outside of an ice-pitcher in summer.

Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Various

Disreppitableness oozed out through him like sweat through an ice-pitcher, an 'since then he's been known as Slapjack Simms, an' has kept his head shingled smooth as a gun bar'l.

The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Resolutions began to come from Women’s Christian Temperance Union branches East and West until Secretary Loeb published the facts, which were these: that no sideboard had ever been presented to Mrs. Hayes, but an ice-pitcher with stand, long since placed in a Cincinnati museum, where it now is.

XII. The Despair Of Politicians 1904