It was a low, wide room, and around the wall ran shelves and dressers, on which the pewter plates and copper covers shone with such fine polish that one could almost see in their surfaces as in a mirror.
At the head of the table was the major himself, who always carried a large pewter flask suspended from his shoulders by a green string, and without this flask no one ever saw Major Twing.
And Candace concluded her speech by giving a lift to her whole batch of dough, and flinging it down in the trough with an emphasis that made the pewter on the dresser rattle.
You are served on pewter, it is true," said he; "but pewter is a rare material to impart relish to a savory mess.
I; for I thought if he were once on the ground, I could finish him off with a large pewter measure that stood on the table.
It is found in the sand, where it is motionless; but if placed on a polished surface, for instance on a pewter or earthen plate, it moves when excited by lemon juice.
If we place a very irritable medusa on a pewter plate, and strike against the plate with any sort of metal, the slight vibrations of the plate are sufficient to make this animal emit light.
But Jannet had scarcely begun to move the round pewter pot from its long resting place when she heard a sound that startled her.
On the buttery-shelves, a set ofpewter rivals silver in brightness, but Dorcas does not touch them.
MacIan in his monotonous way, settling his pewter pot on the table.
The silver moonlight picked out a piece or two of pewter ornament on his blue uniform; and as they went by they knew it was a sergeant of police.
But do you not think that with two pewter pots we might do what we really have never thought of doing yet--discover what our difference is?
In the first village you entered, the village constable would notice that you were not wearing on the left lapel of your coat the smallpewter S which is now necessary to any one who walks about beyond asylum bounds or outside asylum hours.
Turnbull took his head out of his pewter pot in some anger.
While meditating over their dilemma, the Gipsy, with his eyes rolling about in every direction, as is their wont, espied a pewter basin under a bed in the room.
On which he took up the pewter pint-stoup, with which she measured her ale, and, giving her two or three severe blows on the head, killed her on the spot.
Some of the farmers brought clock weights, some their pewter spoons and porringers, to be melted into bullets.
Instead of forks, which were not known, they had thick and clumsy pewter spoons.
For instance, our breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon.
In well-to-do families the cupboard or dresser shone with well-scoured pewter plates, platters, and porringers.
In many of the families the women melted or pounded up theirpewter spoons and dishes into bullets and slugs.
The dishes used in the farm houses were mostly of pewter and their number limited.
All the dishes in use were of pewter and their number was quite limited.
This mass was spread upon pewter platters and dried in the sun.
Equally to their surprise and to my own, and to John Long's, I won, and the pewter mug became one of my most prized possessions.
Years later I read an account of a little man who once in a fifth-rate handicap race won a worthless pewter medal and joyed in it ever after.
It was only a portion of corn-meal porridge in a pewter plate.
Franklin's breakfast, for many years, was only bread and milk; and he ate it out of a twopenny earthen bowl with a pewter spoon.
Pewter plates and wooden trenchers were used on the table.
A tall kerosene lamp with a pewter base and blue shade lit the table.
He served sandwiches and entremes from a silver tray that salt air and time had darkened to a pewter finish.
I do not wonder that Walter Scott dwells so much on eating, or lets his heroes pull at the pewter mugs so often.
Twas, as I guess'd, a taproom for the soldiers: and the girl had been scouring one of the pewtermugs when my entrance startled her.
The remaining candlesticks lay in a pool of wine on the floor, amid broken glasses, bottles, scattered coins, dice boxes and pewter pots.
The learned counsel enforced his eloquence by knocking the pewterpot with an emphatic clang upon the table.
Silver and pewter and mahogany bureaus, high-post bedsteads and carved mirrors, were carefully piled in the waggons as John Clark, cavalier, turned his face from tidewater Virginia.
Farther and farther into his district emigrants began setting up their four-post sassafras bedsteads and scouring their pewter platters.
The pewter basins shone like mirrors, and while their fingers flew in the light of the fire, stories were told of Kaskaskia, Vincennes, St. Louis.
A narrow board on a moveable bracket constitutes the communion table, and the vessels employed in the celebration of the Lord's Supper are a pewter cheese-plate and pewter pot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pewter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
