After taking back to the galley my emptied pewter dish, and not being recalled aft to the wheel, I was glad to hang idly over the rail, watching the shore line slip past, and permit my thoughts to drift back to my conversation with Fairfax.

He himself, amid all his passion for show, felt bored to death everywhere, and was at ease only among his horses; and this despite his pretensions with respect to advanced literature and philosophy, his collections of curios, such as the bourgeois of to-day does not yet understand, his furniture, his pottery, his pewter-work, and particularly his bookbindings, of which he was very proud.

For a moment the visitor fancied himself alone and glanced round the spacious room, feeling interested in its adornments, the lofty windows of old stained glass, the hangings of old Genoese velvet and brocaded silk, the oak bookcases showing the highly ornamented backs of the volumes they contained; the tables laden with bibelots, bronzes, marbles, goldsmith's work, glass work, and the famous collection of modern pewter-work.

so it's you, Monsieur Froment," suddenly exclaimed somebody in the direction of the table allotted to the pewter curios.

They continued chatting for a moment, and the novelist called attention to a new pewter treasure among Seguin's collection.

At length, through a glass shop-front I noticed a light which gleamed on a pewter counter.

The large room was lit by two candles and a melancholy lamp, there was no tablecloth, the spoons were of pewter, with the bowls half gone, and the knives were in their dotage.

And there, in the golden weather, He stitched and hammered and sung; In the brook he moistened his leather, In the pewter mug his tongue.

Inside the poor little house you would find all spick and span, the old floor white and sanded, the few tins and the pewter spoons shining upon the shelf, the brick hearth and jambs aglow with fresh "redding," table and chairs set back in rectangular tidiness.

pwoot = pewter.

He had an eagle, which was at liberty in his garden; happening to lay two dead rats, which had been poisoned, under a pewter basin, to which the eagle could have access, but who nevertheless did not see him place the rats under it, he was surprised to see, some time afterwards, the crop of the bird considerably distended; and finding the rats abstracted from beneath the basin, he concluded that the eagle had devoured them.

The articles he brought out were a pewter plate and a silver table-spoon.

" "You forget that sailors don't bury men under mounds of stone, with pewter plates and spoons beside them.

Some of us found pieces of pewter, which, being put into the mouth produced a kind of coolness.

Puzzle in pewter.

Great yellow blankets were on the iron beds, the linen was scrupulously clean, glittering pewter-jugs and goblets stood by the side of each patient, and they were provided with godly books (to judge from the building), in which several were reading at leisure.

There were a few pewter spoons in use; but the table furniture consisted mainly of hand-made trenchers, platters, noggins, and bowls.

Micus and Padna seated at a table drinking from pewter pints.

At Flixecourt we eat out of pewter spoons, and the people told us, with much inquietude, that they had sold their plate, in expectation of a decree of the Convention to take it from them.

de 's just as the family were set down to a very moderate supper, and I observed that their plate had been replaced by pewter.

he cried, struggling to his feet; then, still clutching pipe and pewter, he embraced me, and choked and chuckled, laying his fat head on my shoulder.

It is almost permissible to infer that the street contained, in addition to the regular inns, an assortment of open counters, where the commodities on sale were cried aloud for the benefit of the passer-by; for he says: "When I hied me into East Cheap: One cries ribs of beef, and many a pie: Pewter pots they clattered on a heap; There was harp, fife, and sautry.

" The mention of pewter is noteworthy, because the Earl of Northumberland ate his dinner off wood in 1572.

Pewter plates had not long been given up when I joined the Inner Temple in 1861.

13, 48 Pelops, 6 Pepper, 214 Peter of Blois, 205 Peterborough Abbey, 216 Pewter, utensils of, 247-8 Phagetica of Ennius, 6 Pheasants, 13 Pickles, 143 et seq.