Utensils
[ju:'tensɪlz]
Examples
- The trader and Mr. Shelby were seated together in the dining room afore-named, at a table covered with papers and writing utensils. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It would seem as if the day of general doom was come, and the utensils of the house were dragged forth to judgment. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Even to-day enough remains of the galleries, shafts, sco ria, mine-lamps, and other utensils to give a clear idea of this scene of ancient industry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Gold and silver, whether in the shape of coin or of plate, are utensils, it must be remembered, as much as the furniture of the kitchen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The hard shell of the nut is polished and made into cups and other domestic utensils. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the fall of 1858 I sold out my stock, crops and farming utensils at auction, and gave up farming. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rosine was right; these utensils had in them a blank and immutable terror, beyond the mobile wrath of the wearer's own unglazed eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This grill, you will note, is round, which particularly adapts it to the use of utensils ordinarily found in the kitchen of the average home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Each man carrying a rifle and ammunition, beside bedding and some food and cooking utensils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- After they had started, the tents and cooking utensils had to be made into packages, so that they could be lashed to the backs of the mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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