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Example sentences for "crock"

Lexicographically close words:
croc; crochet; crocheted; crocheting; crochets; crocked; crockery; crocketed; crockets; crocketted
  1. Presently the light became brighter, and, turning a sharp angle, I saw a good sized fire, on which a crock was steaming round about which weird forms sat.

  2. No; I kip away in the daytime, and as fur goin' ther after dark, I wouldn't for a crock of gould.

  3. I had worked myself up into a passion and I kicked the crock and overturned it.

  4. The porridge-like product he baked, as it were, by turning a larger crock over the crock containing it.

  5. Agathemer, more knowing than I, would not let them approach the fire until they had bathed their feet in a crock of water he kept standing ready inside the hut door and had partially dried them afterwards.

  6. I did not find Clancy then and I went off, but coming back again I found him, and a very busy man he was, with an immense crock of punch between his knees.

  7. Clancy sat on the table with the crock between his feet and bailed it out while they all agreed it was the smoothest stuff that ever slid down their throats.

  8. And into the crock I puts two gallons of rum--fine rum it was--for a bottom.

  9. This may be kept in a stone crock or sealed in glasses.

  10. When cool, put in a stone crock or small jars.

  11. Cover the top of the crock well and store.

  12. Just before it hardens, pour it into a crock or a bowl, place a damp cloth over the top of the bowl, and put away for a couple of days.

  13. An' afther that the leprechaun reaches for his crock o' gold an' pulls out a penny.

  14. I told her all that had befallen me especially in the matter of the crock of gold buried in the 'old man.

  15. Then he opened the crock and counted therein one hundred dinars which he pouched in his purse and stowed away in his breast-pocket.

  16. But after she heard my words she tarried until sundown; then, going to the land-mark she dug into it and carrying off the crock brought it home privily.

  17. I once ’ad a crock called Lymington; ah, a rare useful one, too.

  18. The possession of that crock was the heaviest of cares.

  19. Where should he hide that crock--the epithet "cursed" crock escaped him this time in his vexed impatience.

  20. Wasn't it to be an end of troubles, too, this precious crock of gold?

  21. Thank the crock of gold for this--Oh, blessed crock!

  22. But they did at last: there it was, the crock of gold, full proof of robbery and murder!

  23. Thus, that crock had spoilt all there was to spoil in the temper and conduct of the wife.

  24. She'll be merry in the first, and hearty at the second, and passionate for filling the crock with gold pieces.

  25. I saw the whole affair: how three billets were put into an empty crock and one was drawn out.

  26. Rose Mary over a crock of milk she was expertly skimming with a thin, old, silver ladle.

  27. Just one more crock of milk to skim and I can go," answered Rose Mary as she poised the skimmer over the last yellow surface down the line of huge, brown, earthen bowls that in Harpeth Valley were known as crocks.

  28. If you should happen to scoop it into the crock a few seconds too soon, it does not matter, as it will come out just the same in the end.

  29. The crock may be covered with wax paper and a lid.

  30. Cut it into chunks and put them into a crock or stone jar.

  31. If the fondant in the crock becomes hard from neglecting to keep the cloth damp with which it is covered, wet the cloth, squeeze it slightly and place it over the crock.

  32. It is better to scoop this fondant off into your crock just before it sets firmly.

  33. The contents were renewed only when some one kicked the crock so that it broke.

  34. What was left over from breakfast was put into a great crock which stood in one corner of the kitchen, on the floor, and this was warmed up again the next morning, with the addition of a little fresh beer.

  35. He had put it in a crock and buried it, and, on his death-bed, where he made his statement, he asked that it might be exhumed and spent for some good purpose.

  36. He made the attempt, and his pick struck a crock that gave a chink, as of gold.

  37. When he recovered the crock was gone, the hole filled in, and ever since then the light has hovered about the place.

  38. Keep the clay in an earthen crock with a cover.

  39. Put a little water in an earthen crock and add the powdered clay to it, mixing it with your hand and adding clay until it is the right consistency to mould.

  40. Have materials and utensils cold, put liquid with salt, oil and yolks of eggs when used, in stone milk crock or deep pan, agitate for a moment by moving wire batter whip briskly back and forth, when the liquid will be full of bubbles.

  41. Corn in Brine= Put layers of fresh picked corn, cut from the cob, in crock the same as string beans except that the layers of corn should be 1 to 2 in.

  42. A large crock or jar is a good vessel to prepare the meat in before drying it.

  43. Put a piece of butter the size of half an egg, together with a few shavings of onion, into a kettle or stone crock and let it get hot.

  44. We were hungry as wolves, so I took Mitch into the pantry where we found a blackberry pie, and a crock of milk, rich with cream.

  45. And now you go down to the cellar and get another crock of milk--do you hear?

  46. It seemed to come solidly down to the ground in the woods in front of the hay-mow window, and the boys said it would be easy to get the crock of gold at the end of it if they were only in the woods.

  47. Then they wondered how much of a crock full of gold a boy could get into his pockets; and they all laughed when Jake said he reckoned it would depend upon the size of the crock.

  48. Keep all the orange skins you have and throw them into a crock of salt and water and let them stand till you have enough to make candying worth while.

  49. But in any case, have a zinc-topped table; you lift off a hot pot from the stove and set it down there and neither burn nor crock anything, and that is a real blessing when you have to do your own cleaning-up.

  50. Do not stem them or wash them, but look them over carefully and crush them in a crock with a wooden potato masher.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.