"Ewer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ewer of metal brought by M. Fromisher, caused two seuerall supplies, the two yeeres next following; whereof the latter was ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt
... Eyssn ist heiss. Macht nur da einen weyten Kreiss! Da legt jms Eyssen in de mit! Tragt jrs herauss vnd prent euch nit, 100 So ist ewer vnschuld bewert, Wie denn mein ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... second wonder was a silver beaker or ewer, very artfully wrought and all chased and embossed with designs of fruit and flower and of a rare craftsmanship, and this jug set within my reach and half-full of milk. The better to behold this, I raised myself ...
— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol
... jewellery lying on fat pincushions, the skirts and wrappers and feminine finery hanging behind the door, these and fifty other things appealed to the softest spot in his susceptible nature. He took up the ewer, and poured water into the basin; but he was ashamed to place his dirty coat on a thing so clean as was the solitary dimity-covered chair, so he put the ragged garment on the floor. Then he took up a pink cake of soap, and ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... the torments of jealousy, too. She would marry somebody else. His very soul writhed. The tenacity of that Feraud, the awful persistence of that imbecile brute, came to him with the tremendous force of a relentless destiny. General D'Hubert trembled as he put down the empty water ewer. "He will have me," he thought. General D'Hubert was tasting every emotion that life has to give. He had in his dry mouth the faint sickly flavour of fear, not the excusable fear before a young girl's candid and amused glance, but the fear ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
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