pot-hooks

I have turned over volumes, which, from the pot-hooks I was obliged to decipher, might have been the cabalistic manuscripts of Cornelius Agrippa, although I never saw “the door open and the devil come in.”

The Monastery 2008

Miss Margland declared, she wished him no better dinner than his pot-hooks; but did not doubt he would come just before they had done, as usual; and he was no more mentioned: though she never in her life eat so fast; and the table was ordered to be cleared of its covers, with a speed exactly the reverse of the patience with which the Doctor was indulged on similar occasions by the baronet.

Camilla 2008

This grapnel is a small anchor, made like four pot-hooks tied back to back.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Suddenly, while he was rubbing his wiry head with irritation, and poring over his letters for some clew, like a dunce going back through his pot-hooks, suddenly a great knock sounded through the house — one, two, three — like the thumping of a mallet on

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Iron pot-hooks and a Tudor spit were entirely ornamental now, but Aunt Margherita would not have them taken out; she said they were part of the soul of the house.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

The officer tore it open, and Hendon smiled when he recognized the 'pot-hooks' made by his lost little friend that black day at Hendon Hall.

Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967

Once the grasping phase, the stage of pot-hooks, is successfully past -- and the end of the second year in a well-managed child should see its close -- the child sets himself with enthusiasm to wider tasks.

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

Just as in schooldays we were taught with much labour to make pot-hooks and hangers efficiently before we were promoted to real attempts at writing, so before the child can really perform tasks with

The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

The pots themselves, of cast iron, with close-fitting tops, ran from two to ten gallons in capacity, had rounded bottoms with three pertly outstanding legs, and ears either side for the iron pot-hooks, which varied in size even as did the pots themselves.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

Our means of comparison in regard to the folio are limited, indeed, but they are none the less sufficient; for we may be sure that Mr. Collier's opponents, who have followed his tracks page by page with microscopes and chemical tests, who hang their case upon pot-hooks and trammels, and lash themselves into palaeographic fury with the tails of remarkable _g_-s, have certainly made public the strongest evidence against him that they could discover.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various