Poured

Examples

• With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I poured another glass of wine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave it to foundlings from Africay. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I poured in a beakerful of water, and the whole thing exploded and threw a lot of it into my eyes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As she went, the wind rose sobbing; the rain poured wild and cold; the whole night seemed to feel her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Water is poured into that external case until the gas-meter is rather more than half filled, the level of the water being shown at _i_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They all sat down, and Gudrun carefully poured out the coffee. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You have come and poured your heart out; a thing seldom done. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Birkin poured out for them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Riches became mine, wealth poured in upon me, and I rioted in pleasures enhanced a thousandfold to me by the consciousness of my well-kept secret. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But I poured it into the water. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Rinaldi poured another glass. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The sunlight poured its unclouded beauty on every object that I could see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As the pirates swooped closer toward the ground, thern soldiery poured from the temples into the gardens and courts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And that same evening, walking among the moon-lit forest paths, I poured forth my whole heart, its transport and its hope, to my friend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I sat at the table and he came back with the bottle and poured us each a half tumbler of cognac. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In this small building Edison has made some of his most important experiments in the process of working out his plans for the poured house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the more strenuously Mr. Pott entreated, the more vehemently the screams poured forth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I poured another glass of St. Estephe. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He told them so, as he poured its contents into what was left of the wine, and drank with a new relish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was then dipped in the sap, or the latter was poured over it, which gave it a thin coating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If ice water is poured into a glass, a mist will form on the outside of the glass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Till it poured down like rain,' said Roger Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The wine being by this time poured out, Lowten drank to Mrs. Perker and the children, and Job to Perker. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I saw her busied for a moment at a little stand; she poured out water, and measured drops from a phial: glass in hand, she approached me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And so she went on with a perfectly connected story, which she poured into the ears of her perplexed kinsman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He poured out enough to kill two men, when I told him that we didn't keep a hotel for suicides, and he had better cut the quantity down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The old man, leaning on his son, walked each day at noon, when it did not rain, as I found it was called when the heavens poured forth its waters. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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