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Meanings of pepper-box in anglès
Usage of pepper-box in anglès
1
He picked up the pepper-box, and mechanically sifted its contents into the barberry-dish.
2
I wonder if old Mombi knew they were in the bottom of the pepper-box.
3
He handed the pepper-box to Tip, who had no difficulty in unscrewing the bottom.
4
There was the square keep, with its pepper-box towers, and bartizans overhanging the moat.
5
She had her book upside down, putting the holes in the lid of the pepper-box.
6
In places the sea looked like a pepper-box cover.
7
I'll go to my grave but what he was drove full of slugs like a pepper-box.'
8
The pepper-box will not bear minute inspection, and is in this particular inferior to the rattle box.
9
In the result one might be pardoned for some uncertainty as to which was coffee-pot and which pepper-box.
10
This is a small tin box, of the pepper-box or flour-dredger shape, standing three to four inches high.
11
And so good-bye and 'good luck to ye, Cork, and your pepper-box steeple,' for we leave you to-morrow!
12
He wore in his belt an old original "Allen" revolver, such as irreverent people called a "pepper-box."
13
No smooth drill-ground for that charge, but earth broken with shell-craters as thick as holes in a pepper-box cover!
14
The young Lively swallowed three times distinctly, and then replied, while shaking the pepper-box over his potato, "Nobody."
15
You're a regular pepper-box.
16
So he began by sprinkling some of the magic Powder of Life from the pepper-box upon the body of the saw-horse.
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Translations for pepper-box
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