One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean. From LearnThat.org. [Hannah More (1745-1833)]
Two barrels, or coombs, make a measure called a hogshead, liquid, or a quarter, dry; each being the quarter of a ton. From Wordnik.com. [Public Papers] Reference
She was not quite the "hogshead" the landlord declared her to be, but she was one of the worst cases of dropsy I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
I always wondered why two pipes in liquid measure were called a hogshead; now I know; it was on account of their great capacity. ". From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Anecdotes] Reference
I always wondered why two pipes in liquid measure were called a hogshead; now I know; it was on account of their great capacity.”. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Anecdotes]
The hogshead, constructed of rough lumber, is 6 feet long and. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17] Reference
Hang the meat upon them -- but not until the hogshead is in place. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
How to get out of the hogshead without detection was another problem. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
He buckled you face down on de hogshead and whupped you 'til you bled. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
Its body resembles a huge hogshead perched on four short, stumpy legs. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
The morning's catch had been split and salted; it just filled a hogshead. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He had an old hogshead perched on the top of a steep little rise near by. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
The destroyer seeks his victim alike in every hogshead, and in every glass. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
He always gave them a hogshead of beer; and they all drank merrily to his health. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Here in my chair with my knife I can shape the short boards into hogshead staves. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
A thrill of exultation shot through Tom, crouching at the bottom of the hogshead. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
Good Cider, pale, one hogshead, Spirits three gallons, Honey or Sugar twenty pounds. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Percy worked until the last pound of the fifteen hundred was salted down in the hogshead. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
At one end of the press is a great roll of paper as big as a hogshead and a mile or more long. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Poutrincourt opened a hogshead of wine, and the fort was soon the scene of mirth and festivity. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Four pounds of this dough per hogshead, seem to me to be sufficient to establish a good fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
Behind him, the Priests at the golden hogshead, now set free to taste the wine themselves, had lost no time. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
It will be found that a hogshead of mashed grain will always get warmer, after it begins to work or ferment. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States] Reference
Formerly I could retail hogshead after hogshead of all kinds of spirits, and you slept as quietly as a child. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
I backed up against a hogshead of sugar, telling them not to come any nearer to me or I would hurt some of them. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
That they put two bushels of ground grain into a hogshead of fermentation containing 100 gallons, filled up with water. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
One might buy anything, a lot of flour -- a line of fruits -- a hogshead of molasses, or a case of boots to-day, with almost. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Time passed on, and a hogshead was needful; and its contents were exhausted with the same intent, and the same self-deceivings. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
So, led by the inventor of the trap, they hurried to where the hogshead had been perched on the brink of the steep little descent. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
It seems that about 2 miles away, in a barn, they had come on a hogshead of ginger brandy, and had stayed with it to the bitter end. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
To carry out the idea, it would have required a man to stand at every tree and empty the rapidly filling buckets into a monster hogshead. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
Of course, by rolling the hogshead back to its initial position Johnny was enabled to right himself, and get his foot free from the noose. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
Behind the stage was a corps of Priests guarding a mountainous golden hogshead of wine, adjudged the finest wine produced during the year. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Mash your grain in the method that you find will yield you most whiskey -- the day before you intend mashing, have a clean hogshead set in. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States] Reference
Not until the last hake lay on the top of its brethren in the hogshead did he take off his oilskins and prepare for his visit to the yacht. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
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