ewer

D'Artagnan stopped to look at a sideboard on which was a superb ewer of silver.

The basin and the ewer had been smashed, the looking-glass was in fragments, and the sheets were in ribands.

To some he said, "I wish I had what you have; I would give it you." And to others, "I have but this silver ewer; it is worth at least five hundred livres, - take it." The effect of which was - so truly is courtesy a current payment - that the prince constantly found means to renew his creditors.

Well, everything on this tray is at least a hundred years old: these cups, these spoons, this ewer, are all heirlooms; my great-grandmother left them to my grandmother, she to my mother, and my mother brought them with her from England to Switzerland, and left them to me; and, ever since I was a little girl, I have thought I should like to carry them back to England, whence they came."

What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using his tiara for ewer? Oh, my sweet cardinals!

A maid servant then brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them.

Through the open door you see a red-tiled floor, a large wooden bed, and on a deal table a ewer and a basin.

Four--an incense-boat, a ewer of silver, a gold buckle and a cope worked in pearls.

Three chairs and a couple of straw- bottomed armchairs stood about the room, and on a low chest of drawers in walnut wood stood a basin, and a ewer of obsolete pattern with a lid, which was kept in place by a leaden rim round the top of the vessel.

A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.