If you want what old-timers used to call their pannikin of rum, you'll be welcome to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagan Madonna] Reference
Fritz baled away with the tin pannikin for dear life. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
The figure rose and fetched a pannikin of water from a pail. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
He mixed a teaspoonful of this in a pannikin of water and drank it. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Sit down, and get your pannikin ready for some of this bacon and meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference
Put the bauble under this pannikin; which none must lift for a day and. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
We tumbled out and, with only a pannikin of coffee in our stomachs, and. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Rube's foot kicked against an unseen pannikin, making an alarming clatter. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
This, with a pannikin of tea, and some baker's cakes, constituted their meal. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
In the haversack is a pannikin with a hinged handle that may be used as a saucepan. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch — a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Then we cut them up and boiled them in another pannikin, and this completed our preparations. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
My poor brother Frank drank the first pannikin greedily, and fell dying at our feet as he drank. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
Frere got him water in the pannikin, and having drunk it, he smiled and lay down to sleep again. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
Dipping the pannikin into the melted tallow, he plentifully anointed the seams of the sewn skins. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
An alluvial field is where you can dig out gold with a pick and shovel and wash it out with a pannikin. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
His re-filled pannikin drained, he grew warmer round the heart; and sang the praises of his former life. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
One arm rested upon an empty spirit-keg, beside which were a tin pannikin and a few rude cooking utensils. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
And then I saw Osborne creeping towards me under the lee of the bulwarks with a pannikin of water in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Night] Reference
The poor little thing would have staked her life upon finding the trinket, in all its beauty, lying under the pannikin. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
For twice a day he stumped to fetch his beer from Widow Precious, and the third time to get his little pannikin of grog. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
We were muddy and wet from head to foot, without the means of making even a pannikin of tea, and the night was pitch dark. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
The privilege of having a pannikin of hot water when the gangs came in from field labour in the evening has been withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
He filled a pannikin quite full, and carried it home to his wife, who drank it eagerly, and said that she now felt quite well. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
Over this fits a tin plate, and when the two are covering one another the handle of the pannikin fits over both by way of handle. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
I had just time to get back in my clothes when through the doorway came the pair, each carrying a porcelain pannikin full of milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The moment he saw us he dropped the pannikin, and rose to greet us, a funny round tub of a man, with his braces dangling behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
At this the storekeeper — a tall, slenderly built man of some seven or eight and twenty — appeared, bearing a jug and a pannikin. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
There was a terrace, too, so that we seldom arrived with much more than half a pannikin, and the kettle was an immense step in advance. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
And after he had tasted a pannikin full of brandy and water, which father brought him, he sat up and looked like a living man once more. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
"If you'll pass the pannikin, I'll take a drink, sir," said Jenks, after the sun had risen and warmed the chilly air of the southern ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
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