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He had very ingeniously manufactured a sort of Dutch clock from some disregarded odds and ends; and his vinegar-bottle served for the pendulum.

She went down stairs, and brought up Barby and a light from thence. Hugh was lying senseless and white not whiter than his adopted sister, as she stood by his side. Her eye went to her companion. "Not a bit of it!" said Barby, "he's in nothing but a faint just run down stairs and get the vinegar-bottle, Fleda the pepper vinegar. Is there any water here?"

How is my other child; my eldest; my Cherrywerrychigo? said Mr Pecksniff, inventing a playful little name for her, in the restored lightness of his heart. 'She's much about the same as usual, returned Jonas. 'She sticks pretty close to the vinegar-bottle. You know she's got a sweetheart, I suppose?

The ingredients, consisting of Powell's black flour, some salt, and a little butter, were mixed in the tin box which had held our meat. This was then reversed, and, having been properly cleansed, supplied the place of a dough-board. The vinegar-bottle served the office of rolling-pin, and a shallow tin dish formed the appliance for baking.

"I don't know," replied Pillichody; "but I feel extremely unwell." "He looks to me as if he had got the plague," observed Patience, to Blaize. "The plague!" exclaimed the latter, letting fall the glass, which shivered to pieces on the stone floor. "And I have touched him. Where is the vinegar-bottle?