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I am again asked to be godmother, and, as the child has a white ring round its neck, I cannot refuse.' The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
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She went straight to the church, slunk to the little pot of fat, began to lick it, and licked the top off.
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The pot was boiling the whole evening, and the whole of the following day.
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A common thief would have taken the pot under his arm, and carried it off.
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"When Iris came back she missed the pot of gold and of course she was in a sad way about it.
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There were jam pots and paper bags, and mountains of chopped grass from the mowing machine
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So, year after year, Silas Marner had lived in this solitude, his guineas rising in the iron pot, and his life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being.
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But all this would not answer my end, which was to get an earthen pot to hold what was liquid, and bear the fire, which none of these could do.
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Kearns had dealt, and French Louis had opened the pot with one marker--in his case one hundred dollars.
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Whoever brings in a white man's head takes the pot. If there aren't openers for a long time, the pot grows to tremendous proportions.
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In the kitchen she caught up an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove and said: `You got many, Shimerdas no got.' I thought it weak-minded of grandmother to give the pot to her.
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Poor Pinocchio ran to the fireplace where the pot was boiling and stretched out his hand to take the cover off, but to his amazement the pot was only painted!
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