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But the witch kindled a fire on the hearth, threw a potful of barleycorns among the cinders, and said to the girl: 'If you have not picked the barley out of the ashes, and put it all back in the pot before nightfall, I shall eat you up! Then she hastened after the others, and the poor girl stayed at home and wept.
Sometimes we reach a sleeping-place two hours before sunset, and, all being troubled with languor, we gladly remain for the night. Coffee again, and a biscuit, or a piece of coarse bread made of maize meal, or that of the native corn, make up the bill of fare for the evening, unless we have been fortunate enough to kill something, when we boil a potful of flesh.
Angel," he said, as the mate drew near, "hot coffee is good for moon-blindness, taken externally, as a blistering agent a counter-irritant. We have no fly-blisters in the medicine-chest, but smoking-hot grease must be just as good, if not better than either. Have the cook heat up a potful, and you get me out a nice small paint-brush."
And a heap of money and means and all, so they say, in America. Here's this fellow I spoke of before; he's paid for more feasting and parties than's easy to count this winter past, and comes in here and says to me, 'Let's have some coffee, a potful, and all the cakes you've got. Like to see his trunk?" They went out in the passage to look at the trunk.
Therefore I went and brought Gwenny in, and gave her a potful of bacon and peas, and an iron spoon to eat it with, which she did right heartily. Then I asked her how she could have been such a fool as to let those two vile fellows enter the house where Lorna was; and she accounted for it so naturally, that I could only blame myself. Whereupon up jumped Lorna, and declared that her John was there.
It seemed white and wholesome, but I was unable to taste it even for manner's sake. This disgust, however, was not noticed, as the rest of the company did full justice to the precious tallow and smacked their lips over it as a great delicacy. A lot of potatoes about the size of walnuts, boiled and peeled and added to a potful of salmon, made a savory stew that all seemed to relish.
His whole attitude toward the universe had been altered by a bubbling potful of brown liquid, and the tremendous result so grotesquely out of proportion to its cause appeared to him at the minute entirely right and proper. Everything was entirely right and proper, and he felt able to approve with a clear conscience the Divine arrangement of existence.
I have been and come back again, and got a nice potful for dinner." The wolf felt very angry at this, but thought that he would be a match for the little pig somehow or other, so he said: "Little pig, I know where there is a nice apple-tree." "Where?" said the pig.
James, then, fancied that Jesuits or others had brought in gold for seditious purposes, ‘as they have ofttimes done before.’ Sceptics of the period asked how one pot of gold could cause a sedition. The question is puerile. There would be more gold where the potful came from, if Catholic intrigues were in the air.
"Don't hurry yourself, Mr. Bellamy. What'll you have?" asked Finucane. "Brandy whisky?" "Tea," interrupted Dick. "A potful and awfully strong." "See to that, will you, sergeant?" said Finucane. The man left the room, and Dick spoke again. "There are things I must tell you before I slack off."
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