Nice little jug!

He had been about to reach down for a little brown jug which reposed on the spot usually allotted to the waste paper basket when the shadow of the new-comer fell obtrusively, not to say offensively, upon him.

When he came up to me, I found he had been quite home for an earthen jug, or pot, to bring his father some fresh water, and that he had two more cakes or loaves of bread; the bread he gave me, but the water he carried to his father; however, as I was very thirsty too, I took, a little sup of it.

He puffs and blows over your horse, to the hazard of a double jug, and leaves much of the dressing to the proverb of muli mutuo scabient, one horse rubs another.

At each return to the orchard end of the field we looked for and found a gray stone jug in the grass.

And when they had jointly loosened his lordship's cravat, and removed his wig and set the cool jug of small beer within his reach, Mr. Pomeroy bade the other a curt good-night, and took himself off.

JUGS.Wide-mouthed jugs are easiest to clean.

The teat can always be kept white and soft by turning the end of the bottle, when not in use, into a narrow jug containing water, taking care to dry it first, and then to warm it by drawing the food through before putting it into the child's mouth.

And the first thing it pleased Great Taylor to do was to get rid of the odious molasses jug.

"A nice, fat little feller," rapturously exclaimed Captain Tonkins, taking the proffered jug.

The two amateurs connoisseurs would not be misapplied, eitherhad seated themselves at the brink of a spring of delicious water, and removing the corn-cob that Pliny the younger had felt it to be classical to affix to the nozzle of a quart jug, had, some time before, commenced the delightful recreation of sounding the depth, not of the spring, but of the vessel.

This wine is diminishing, although it is in a sealed jug.

Around that seductive jug those thirty guerrillas became oblivious to our escape.

"May I arrange the dinner table," Sylvia begged, "like a Dutch garden, with a path all around, beds in the corners, and those dear little silver jugs and the candlesticks for a bower in the middle?

Warm milk may be poured on from a spouted jug or teapot; but it must be held very high.

"Yes, those were her words, Mary," said the old man, unfolding the newspaper parcel, and revealing an ugly little jug of metallically glistening earthenware, such as were turned out with strange pride from certain English potteries about seventy years ago.

My thoughts flew back to the lump of sugar, to the unguarded milk-jug and the draught of tea that I had already swallowed; and, hardly knowing what I intended, I started to my feet and turned to confront her.

Elia was no Barmecide host, and the serjeant dwells not without regret upon the solider business of the evening,"the cold roast lamb or boiled beef, the heaps of smoking roasted potatoes, and the vast jug of porter, often replenished from the foaming pots which the best tap of Fleet Street supplied," hospitably presided over by "the most quiet, sensible, and kind of women," Mary Lamb.

She was in her most bustling and vivacious mood, and she had never cooked the bloaters better or provided a more ample jug of beer.

Immediately upon leaving him, therefore, I proceeded to the pantry, waited till the butler had removed himself elsewhere, and nipped in and secured the vital jug.

"Here's a cup to drink out of!" said a man, throwing a broken jug at his breast.

Miss Lavinia, after loving her violets a bit longer, put them in a chubby jug of richly chased old silver.

Add the wine, sugar, and lemon-peel; simmer for 5 minutes, and put it away in a clean jug.

Fetchee back jug," resumed Ah Sin.

Quoth he, "I am an ill jug to pour heavy things into, good friend, and, if I mistake not, thou hast few serious words to spare at any time.