1 He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop.
2 She picked up the bowl and hurled it viciously across the room toward the fireplace.
3 The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butler had been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins.
4 "It would not take more than six dozen to fill that bowl," she argued.
5 The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
6 Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 7 All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
8 Here they brought him more "duffers and dope," with the addition of a bowl of soup.
9 In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
10 After a short and impressive pause, Chingachgook lighted a pipe whose bowl was curiously carved in one of the soft stones of the country, and whose stem was a tube of wood, and commenced smoking.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 11 The cold sunlight was weaker and Brother Michael was standing at his bedside with a bowl of beef-tea.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 12 They said: pick, pack, pock, puck: little drops of water in a fountain slowly falling in the brimming bowl.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 13 While he smoked the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were just visible beyond the jambs of the outhouse door.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 14 Then he has a bloody big bowl of cabbage before him on the table and a bloody big spoon like a shovel.
15 A bee flew in and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him.