1 Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it.
2 Then, as he was just entering the town, she came towards him in the likeness of a little girl carrying a pitcher.
3 The tall girls went out and returned presently, each bearing a tray, with portions of something, I knew not what, arranged thereon, and a pitcher of water and mug in the middle of each tray.
4 She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head.
5 Mrs. Linton, on the third day, unbarred her door, and having finished the water in her pitcher and decanter, desired a renewed supply, and a basin of gruel, for she believed she was dying.
6 Cathy began searching for some water; she lighted on a pitcher in the dresser, filled a tumbler, and brought it.
7 "He isn't brave," said Scarlett perversely, pouring half a pitcher of syrup over her waffles.
8 Wipe your eyes and get a fresh pitcher of water and go on up.
9 Bea was twice called to fill the hot-water pitcher and to make cinnamon toast.
10 The amateur baseball-team hired a semi-professional pitcher from Des Moines, and made a schedule of games with every town for fifty miles about.
11 You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away.
12 I'll bet she meets us at the door of Heaven with a big pitcher of water, and a lot of buckwheat cakes, hot, and toasted on both sides, like Bob and me was fond of.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 13 There's a pitcher of water in the corner by the door.
14 Oliver got up; walked across the room; and stooped for an instant to raise the pitcher.
15 That he was ill, she comprehended directly; so she brought him a pitcher of water, which tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea, although it had been fetched from the well.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE