jam-pot

In fact, she continued to draw men like flies to a jam-pot, and while in thirty years I'd never absolutely caught her in flagrante, there were a dozen at least I suspected her of slapping the mattress with, including that pop-eyed lecher Cardigan and H.R.H. Bertie the Bounder.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

But while the anxious people who had no belief in foreigners were watching by the dark waves, or at the twilight window trembling (if ever a shooting-star drew train, like a distant rocket-signal), or in their sleepy beds scared, and jumping up if a bladder burst upon a jam-pot, no one attempted to ridicule them, and no public journal pronounced that the true British flag was the white feather.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

In fact, she continued to draw men like flies to a jam-pot, and while in thirty years I'd never absolutely caught her in flagrante, there were a dozen at least I suspected her of slapping the mattress with, including that pop-eyed lecher Cardigan and H.R.H. Bertie the Bounder.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

In fact, she continued to draw men like flies to a jam-pot, and while in thirty years I'd never absolutely caught her in flagrante, there were a dozen at least I suspected her of slapping the mattress with, including that pop-eyed lecher Cardigan and H.R.H. Bertie the Bounder.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

A bee had invaded the cabin and was noisily investigating a jam-pot; I suppose he had come from distant Tresco.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

For a small quantity, sufficient to fill a jam-pot, take

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

A large jam-pot covered with a cardboard lid does well as a receptacle of washings.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

She picked up the flower and ran with it to her bedroom, where she put it in a cracked jam-pot in water; and the whole room seemed full of its fragrance -- just as the little kitchen-maid's heart was all aglow with gratitude at the kind act of the great lady.

Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

Britisher's breakfast-table; newspaper propped against jam-pot was no barrier; their gladsome invitations or suggestions, dammed for the moment, would rise at last level with the paper's edge to trickle down the other side and mingle with the eggs and bacon, porridge, kidneys, or whatever trifle the plate might contain.

The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

Turn out into a jam-pot, and when nearly cold stir in the essence of cloves; this latter gives an agreeable odour to the paste, is not poisonous, and preserves the paste indefinitely from turning mouldy.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne