Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurglets
Literary usage of Gurglets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"... which was part of its furniture, he brought forth materials for a meal: platters
close-woven of the fibres of palms; wine in small gurglets of skin; ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"There is clay well suited for making bricks or tiles, and the gurglets for
water—rude, but porous—are better adapted to tropical countries than those ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1859)
"There is clay well suited for making bricks or tiles, and the gurglets for
water—rude, but porous—are better adapted to tropical countries than those ..."
4. Four Years' Residence in the West Indies, During the Years 1826, 7, 8, and 9 by Frederic William Naylor Bayley (1833)
"... keeping hucksters' shops; and either taking or sending out for sale stone-jars,
gurglets for holding water, salt- fish, Guinea corn, raisins, plums, ..."
5. A Winter in the Azores; and a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas by Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar (1841)
"... being porous, like the Indian gurglets, act in summer-time as water-coolers,
possess as much beauty of form as some of those in the British Museum from ..."
6. Five Years' Residence in the West Indies by Charles William Day (1852)
"I believe the pottery that I saw to be only the fragments of gurglets broken in
the carelessness of uproarious festivities. Altogether, it is a curious ..."
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