demijohn

How To Use demijohn In A Sentence

• In the case of soldiers on "extra duty," each was to receive one gill a day, and I distinctly recall the demijohn with the gill cup hanging on its neck, and the line of "extra duty men" who came up each morning for their perquisite. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
• Looking to his host for consent, Cornell tilted the demijohn over his arm and partly filled the four tin mugs and an empty jelly glass. CHAPTER 20
• A demijohn (six to seven bottles) would have two full bags of sugar in it. The Sun
• It is as well to add that Araujo — that was his name — never saw better than when he had imbibed a few glasses of tafia; and he never did any work at all without a certain demijohn of that liquor, to which he paid frequent court. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• As soon as the gale moderated Mr. Pike had the cask brought aft and broached, and now the steward and Wada have it all in bottles and spare demijohns. CHAPTER XXXVI
• Its products were landed at a small number of southern coastal ports and in standard cases of bottles and demijohns which could be quickly counted.
• He was quite proud of it as he had gone to the coop, ‘selected’ the wine, bought several demijohns, and bottled it himself.
• The big demijohn in the stern-sheets told his errand. Chapter 11
• In addition, the young butler had stored away certain demijohns, holding half a dozen gallons each, of excellent _ "tafia," _ Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• The bridge was named after the stone structure shaped like a "demijohn" Harbaugh placed on the east end of the bridge. Archive 2009-08-01