Example Sentences

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So to the Cheshire Cheese they repaired, and drank to a long friendship in foaming pewters of porter.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

Then one of the customers made her laugh, and she let seven pewters fall, and they be battered outrageous.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

In an instant there is uproar: the merry applause of clinking pewters; the stamping of feet; the rattle of sticks.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred

"Now, watchman, have at thee!" roared Mount, as the sloppy pewters were brought.

From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Every eye was on me; the pewters were lifted, reversed, and emptied.

From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)