paint-pots

Presently he put away his paint-pots, turned in to his bed and slept heavily for the first part of the night.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

It held about two dozen paint-pots, several jars partly filled with turpentine, and several bottles of the Zephyr Hills water I used as rinse.

Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

The paint-pots are exhausted in furnishing brown shadows.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The young man, the painter, I suppose will leave his paint-pots now, and set up as

The Newcomes 2006

The pile of fish formed a glittering treasure of rainbow colours, and I wished that I had my scrolls and paint-pots to record it all.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Packing things, looking for things, losing things, exchanging addresses, tidying cupboards, stacking books, cleaning paint-pots ... all the thrilling little things that come at the end of term, and add to the excitement of going home.

The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970

In the passage beyond lay the floor from above, broken chairs and women's paint-pots, and a child's body curled upon a toy.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Many a time, when I have been with some Cretan lady, flounced and pinned and scented and crimp-haired, whose bed one could hardly get to for paint-pots and mirrors and toilet-stands all round it, I would fall asleep after on my pallet in the Bull Court, and embrace in dreams a waist like green willow, or wrestle a love-fall against strong slender limbs naked and cool and ringed with gold.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

While he talked a small ape entered the room and, discovering the paint-pots, proceeded to decorate his person with a liberal hand.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

For if the stock out of which the work is wrought be ever more valuable than the workman's skill, then let canvas and paint-pots impeach the fame of Raphael; rough blocks from Paros and

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various