"Pottle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cockle, I'll pledge you a pottle, Were it the best ale in Nottinghamshire: But then, said our king, now I think of a thing; Some of your lightfoot I would we had here. Ho! ho! quoth Richard, full well I may say it, 'Tis knavery to eat it, and then ...
— The Book of Brave Old Ballads • Unknown
... a scheme. Or, possibly it is hatched by his father-in-law, Sir John Levis (he's one of the directors of Pottle & Kett's, the great armament firm), and Wilbraham is persuaded to carry it out; it doesn't matter which. Levis has been in Geneva now for some days. He has lain rather low and has not been staying at Wilbraham's house, but I've ...
— Mystery at Geneva - An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings • Rose Macaulay
... out of the pottle, my boys, Here's a health to the barley-mow! The pottle, the quart, &c. ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... "that I shall ever get Adriana to receive. It is an organic gift, and very rare. What I mean to do is to have a first-rate villa and give the party strawberries. I always say Adriana is like Nell Gwyn, and she shall go about with a pottle. One never sees a pottle of strawberries now. I believe they went out, like all good things, ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... hearts' content; but the night is still, and I want not that attention of any on shore should be called to the ship. There has been more foolish talk than enough about her already; so turn in to rest, lads, without ado. The boatswain will serve you each out a pottle of cider, such as you never drank on board ship before, I warrant me, and which is a sample of what you will have, all the voyage. When you have tossed that off, let each lie down as he can find space. We will divide into watches, ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
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