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Hogsheads in sentence

8 examples of Hogsheads in a sentence

He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.
Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads.
Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.
I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.
Why Love should like a spiteful foe thus use him, he hath no idea, but hogsheads full—this doth he know—Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, and all for distant Dulcinea Del Toboso.
"I nothing doubt it, good brother," said the King; "and as venison is but dry food, our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvoisie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly--If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler."
In one place cooks were toiling to roast huge oxen, and fat sheep; in another, hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers.
In order to reach it, it was only necessary to mount upon a couple of hogsheads, which had been produced from I know not where, and perched one upon the other, after a fashion.