When Wedgwood and Bentley were designated "Potters to the Queen," and began making "queensware," coining the word, they laid the sure foundation for one of the greatest business fortunes ever accumulated in. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
With tea came queensware: and half-a-dozen cups and saucers, usually of. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
He's slo 'mouthed as I'm tellin' you, but he's gittin 'over them spells an' I'm gwinter c'wore him if I hafter go into the queensware bus'ness on my own hook. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Dishes of blue queensware, knives and forks, cups and saucers of various patterns, and a bowl of molasses were placed upon the table; and finally the woman said, speaking to, though not looking at, me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Hawkins, returned to their plates, and the rattle of steel on heavy queensware proceeded. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Trail Divides] Reference
By and by he went home to his lodgings -- an empty queensware hogshead, -- and employed himself till night trying to make up his mind what to buy with it. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
I went in one morning and packed a barrel or two of important queensware and utensils and a bale of bedding, without which even the best flat becomes a snare and a mockery. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference
It is true she had no special regard for the fragility of queensware, but care in these matters is not expected even of old retainers; while Rosa, as I have said, was in the flower of youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home] Reference
It was a custom in the days of early Indiana barbarism for the youngsters of a village, on spying a sleeping drunkard, to hunt up a "queensware crate" -- one of the cages of round withes in which crockery was shipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana] Reference
I went next to a wholesale drug store, and explaining my errand, received one dollar from each of the proprietors, who were abolitionists; then to a queensware store and received a similar amount from each proprietor. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents] Reference
The man does not appear to have been openly charged with any gravely unbecoming thing, but it is noted in the ship's log as a "curious circumstance" that albeit he brought his baggage on board the ship in a newspaper, he took it ashore in four trunks, a queensware crate, and a couple of champagne baskets. From Wordnik.com. [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference
When Mrs. Worthington came back from Europe and opened her house to the City Federation, and gave a coloured lantern-slide lecture on "An evening with the Old Masters," serving punch from her own cut-glass punch bowl instead of renting the hand-painted crockery bowl of the queensware store, the old dull pain came back into the hearts of the dwellers in the inner circle. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Town] Reference
"curious circumstance" that albeit he brought his baggage on board the ship in a newspaper, he took it ashore in four trunks, a queensware crate, and a couple of champagne baskets. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography] Reference
It was a custom in the days of early Indiana barbarism for the youngsters of a village, on spying a sleeping drunkard, to hunt up a “queensware crate” ” one of the cages of round withes in which crockery was shipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster]
Josiah Wedgwood coined the word "queensware.". From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
She has two upper front teeth, is tall, but a good deal inclined to stoop, one rib on the left side gone, has one shred of rusty hair hanging from the left side of her head, and one little tuft just above and a little forward of her right ear, has her underjaw wired on one side where it had worked loose, small bone of left forearm gone -- lost in a fight has a kind of swagger in her gait and a 'gallus' way of going with: her arms akimbo and her nostrils in the air has been pretty free and easy, and is all damaged and battered up till she looks like a queensware crate in ruins -- maybe you have met her? ". From Wordnik.com. [Sketches New and Old] Reference
The store was of that miscellaneous character which is adapted to the multifarious wants of a country neighbourhood, and displayed a tempting assortment of queensware, rat-traps, tin kettles, hats, fiddles, shoes, calicoes, cheese, sugar, allspice, jackknives and jewsharps, -- the greater part of which was announced in staring capitals on the window-shutter, with the persuasive addition, that they were all of the best quality and to be had on the most accommodating terms. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
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