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  • The treasurer, who was an amateur, settled immediately with the knight of the pastepot to save the house from destruction.

    A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

  • After considerable discussion and comparing of effects, it was finally decided that the outside crust of the pie should be of white paper, decorated in holly and ribbon, so the needles and pastepot were both used in preparing the lower portion of the box.

    Grandfather's Love Pie Miriam Gaines

  • On the floor reposed countless shattered articles of glass and porcelain; jumbled together with blotters an pastepot and shears and ink-stand and other utensils.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Daily they, with pastepot and cross-staff, new clothe the walls of Paris in colours of the rainbow: authoritative heraldic, as we say, or indeed almost magical thaumaturgic; for no Placard-Journal that they paste but will convince some soul or souls of man.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The pastepot; the letter from Selznick; the ukulele; the sprinklers; the radio station.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • Where's my pastepot, Dorothy? "inquired James who had done wonders in making boxes to contain the gifts that went in the real Ship.

    Ethel Morton's Holidays 1903

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