wine-casks

Thus the highroads were filled with droves of bullocks, sheep, calves, and hogs, and choked with loaded wains, whose axle-trees cracked under their burdens of wine-casks and hogsheads of ale, and huge hampers of grocery goods, and slaughtered game, and salted provisions, and sacks of flour.

Kenilworth 2004

Once, in this very spot, a troupe of Eglantine adepts had tormented Joscelin, while Hyacinthe and I had stood atop empty wine-casks and watched, stifling our mirth.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

They had completed their supper, but were still drinking, dipping pewter mugs or jewelled goblets into the broken heads of the wine-casks.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

They had completed their supper, but were still drinking, dipping pewter mugs or jewelled goblets into the broken heads of the wine-casks.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

They had completed their supper, but were still drinking, dipping pewter mugs or jewelled goblets into the broken heads of the wine-casks.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

They had completed their supper but were still drinking, dipping pewter mugs or jeweled goblets into the broken heads of the wine-casks.

Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

Val hustled Ricky on, taking his direction from one of the wine-casks he had bumped into.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

Also there were men charged to set fire to all the stores and burn them, and to stave in all the wine-casks; others to set fire to every single house, to burn the enemy and us together.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

Waggons, drawn by oxen and loaded with wine-casks, slowly creak along the road.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Thus the high-roads were filled with droves of bullocks, sheep, calves and hogs, and choked with loaded wains, whose axle-trees creaked under their burdens of wine-casks and hogsheads of ale, and huge hampers of grocery goods, and slaughtered game, and salted provisions, and sacks of flour.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor