Pestle
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This movie uniquely brings hope regarding the human condition - even as men are ground within the mortar and
pestle
of war - they can look beyond themselves . .
More example sentences with word pestle
It would take a cryptologist to follow three quarters of the dialog, my head kept spinning, the
pestle
with the mestle has the brew that is true, et cetera et cetera et cetera, as the King of Siam would say.
After dinner, Mr. Bob Sawyer ordered in the largest mortar in the shop, and proceeded to brew a reeking jorum of rum-punch therein, stirring up and amalgamating the materials with a
pestle
in a very creditable and apothecary-like manner.
I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
After this, I made a great heavy
pestle
or beater of the wood called the iron-wood; and this I prepared and laid by against I had my next crop of corn, which I proposed to myself to grind, or rather pound into meal to make bread.
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