Pewter
in example sentence
It was a change for them to turn their backs upon the cooking of Weltjie and of Ude, or the chambertin of old Q., and to dine upon a porter-house steak washed down by a pint of ale from a
pewter
pot.
More example sentences with word pewter
There were a dozen glasses at most, three bottles of liqueur, a decanter, a small zinc tank with a
pewter
tap to hold the beer; and nothing else--not a figure, not a little table, not a game.
Every eye was fixed on a table, where Julien saw, on a
pewter
plate, three lighted candle-ends.
In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the
pewter
medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.
Mr. Trotter acquiesced in this agreeable proposal; and having deposited his book in his coat pocket, accompanied Mr. Weller to the tap, where they were soon occupied in discussing an exhilarating compound, formed by mixing together, in a
pewter
vessel, certain quantities of British Hollands and the fragrant essence of the clove.
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