Do we say pitcher or picture

pitcher 581 occurrences

A huge white pitcher of steaming golden coffee was in his hand.

"Nurse, pour a pitcher of water on him."

She laughed and turned again to the contemplation of the room; on the high mantel was a yellow pitcher, that her grandmother knew was a hundred years old, and in the centre of the mantel were arranged a sugar bowl and a vinegar cruet that Miss Prudence had coaxed away from the old lady; her city friends would rave over them, she said.

Could she earn money to buy another hundred-years-old yellow pitcher?

And if she could earn the money, where could she find the pitcher?

At this moment, if it had not been for that unfortunate pitcher, she would have been reviewing her conversation with Miss Prudence.

But the remembrance of the broken pitcher persisted in bringing itself uppermost, pushing through the blades of grass and the quarts of blueberries; she might as well begin to plan how she was to earn another pitcher!

But the remembrance of the broken pitcher persisted in bringing itself uppermost, pushing through the blades of grass and the quarts of blueberries; she might as well begin to plan how she was to earn another pitcher!

" "Not spilt milk, but only a broken milk pitcher!

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

Will it do if it isn't a pitcher?" "I'd rather have a pitcher, a yellow pitcher.

"I suppose you want the pitcher immediately.

She remembered all their faceshow Linnet cried and sobbed, how Hollis whispered, "I'll get a pitcher, Mousie, if I have to go to China for it," and how her father knelt by the lounge when he came home and learned that it had happened and was all over, how he knelt and thanked God for giving her back to them all out of her great danger.

It looked round and flat, not one bit like a pitcher, unless some pitchers a hundred years ago were flat.

"I am glad you broke the old yellow pitcher.

It was not half as pretty as the pitcher.

But it was a treasure, twofold more a treasure than the yellow pitcher, for it was twice as old and had come from Holland.

The yellow pitcher had only come from England.

Unto them I will discovernot a swan's nest among the reeds, as Mrs. Browning has it, but an old yellow pitcher that their lovely grandmother was in trouble about fifty years ago.

" "I had you and the pitcher for the foundation," said Miss Prudence, in a tone of mock humility.

"Suppose I had been killed when I fell and had not told you about the pitcher nor made amends for it.

Lieutenant Charles G. Bonner, R.N.R., and Petty-Officer Ernest Pitcher, R.N., were awarded the V.C. for their services in this action, and many medals for conspicuous gallantry were also given to the splendid ship's company.

" Rhyme on an old pitcher of English pottery.

And then, more thrilling than all else, the words of the preacher: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

picture 12842 occurrences

Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, We too are citizens of America.

And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve; this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface; this free intercourse we will interrupt; these fertile fields we will deluge with blood; the protection of that glorious flag we renounce; the very name of Americans we discard.

What European can picture happiness to his imagination amidst poverty and neglect?

"The true picture of our courier in a rage, for papa to see."

But it gives you such a graphic picture of the whole scene that I shall let it go.

All the weary indifferent, or unhappy looks, love, I would blot out from your memory, and have the thought of me raise but one picture in your mind.

I would have it as if I had died, and left of my face no record on earth except one wonderful picture by some great master, who had caught the whole beauty of the one rarest moment of my life.

Darling, if you look back, you will find that moment; for it must have been in your arms; and let Love be the master who will paint the immortal picture!

If you cannot leave your picture at any moment, cannot turn from it and go on with another while the color is drying, cannot work at any part of it you choose with equal contentment, you have not firm enough grasp of it.

You may resolve to think of your picture only; but, if you have been fretted before beginning, no manly or clear grasp of it will be possible for you.

I'll wear thy colours in my cap, Thy picture at my heart; And he that bends not to thine eye Shall rue it to his smart!"

So I found Mrs. Lascelles in the end, and so I saw her until she looked up and saw me; then the picture changed; but I am not going to describe the change.

I remember in Pisa I saw a great picture of the Judgment-Day in the Campo Santo, and there were lots of abbesses, and nuns, and monks, and bishops too, that the devils were clearing off into the fire.

If so, he is the only American slave-leader of whom we know certainly that he rose above the ordinary level of slave vengeance, and Mrs. Stowe's picture of Dred's purposes is then precisely typical of his.

No, the earnest preacher preaches to himself as much as to any in the congregation; it is from the picture ever before him in his own weak and wayward heart that he learns to reach and describe the hearts of others, if, indeed, he do so at all.

"The Death of the Gods," by many considered the finest of the three, is a vivid picture of the times of the Roman Emperor Julian, setting forth the doctrine that the pagan and the Christian elements in human nature are equally legitimate and sacred, a doctrine which, in its various guises, runs through the trilogy.

To look at him was just as if one of the ancient patriarchs had been left on the earth, to let succeeding survivors witness a picture of hoary and venerable eld.

Two or three days after Maister Wiggie, the minister, had gone through the ceremony of tying us together, my sign was nailed up, painted in black letters on a blue ground, with a picture of a jacket on one side and a pair of shears on the other; and I hung up a wheen ready-made waistcoats, caps, and Kilmarnock cowls in the window.

For these inimitable concessions of a Persian rogue are intended to give a picture of Oriental life as seen by Oriental and not by Western eyes-to present the country and people of Persia from a strictly Persian standpoint.

"Behold the picture!"

" Leslie says of "the most original landscape-painter he knew," meaning Constable, that, whenever he sat down in the fields to sketch, he endeavored to forget that he had ever seen a picture.

It was evening; and, as the moon rose bright and clear, the wooded banks and silvered stream formed as charming a picture as the eye of man could wish to rest upon.

"This is the tune of our catch plaid by the picture of nobody."ID.:

LUTZ, E. G. The motion-picture camerman.

LUTZ, ROYD C. The motion-picture camerman.

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