pickle-jar

I have blown on my frozen fingers in that pickle-jar of great men, which I should like to see again, now, with you.

The Atheist's Mass 2007

I have blown on my frozen fingers in that pickle-jar of great men, which I should like to see again, now, with you.

The Atheist's Mass 2007

When I got up, 3 hours later, I was much more interested in the pickle-jar specimin.

martinaa Diary Entry martinaa 2006

They were too quick to be caught; but Flashman was on the lookout, and sent an empty pickle-jar whizzing after them, which narrowly missed Tom's head, and broke into twenty pieces at the end of the passage.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

This, however, is not the place to open the pickle-jar.

The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk

If her rice-box is well filled, her tea-caddy well stored, her pickle-jar and store of vegetables in good order, she has little more to think about.

Peeps at Many Lands: Japan John Finnemore

Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, when she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.

X. I Become Neglected, and Am Provided For 1917

Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, since she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

'The boy will be idle there,' said Miss Murdstone, looking into a pickle-jar, 'and idleness is the root of all evil.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

“The boy will be idle there, ” said Miss Murdstone, looking into a pickle-jar, “and idleness is the root of all evil.

X. I Become Neglected, and Am Provided For 1917