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How to use ewer in a sentence

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The women moved quickly and surely around the tent, a ewer of scented water, and a bowl appearing, along with towels and her change of clothes.
The parakeets show particular skill and must have been worked from inside the ewer using a snarling iron.
A cup, near filled with ale, was beside him, as was an ewer, and I could only hope he had drunk enough.
The ewer was presented to Amand Landry in April 1857 by the Conservative members of the New Brunswick government.
The ewer is dated based on an analysis of its decorative styles which are influenced by Byzantine and Sassanid decorative forms.
The ewer was excavated from the tomb of Li Xian, outside Guyuan Ningxia.
Water trickles from a tributary spring into a ewer held against the outlet by a maiden gracefully leaning forward as she grasps the stem of an olive bush to steady herself.
The figural imagery on Fatima's ewer surely indicates that it was a private commission, meant for her personal use.
A set comprising two pieces: a ewer and a basin that was used for ritual ablution.
The raised area in the centre suggests the tray would have been used to hold a ewer or chalice.
A ceramic ewer of rectangular shape, with four feet and a sloping shoulder.
A second inscription, found on the underside of the foot, records that the ewer was made by someone named Ahmad.
The bacchanal theme is underlined by the presence of a large ewer placed above and behind the satyrs on a pillar.
A choirmaster is playing the organ, a jeweller is examining a necklace and at his feet are a ewer and enamelled dishes by Bernard Palissy.
The ewer is distinguished for its fine workmanship, elegant form, harmonious proportions and its beautiful decoration.
A pear-shaped ewer carved from a single block of the clear, colourless quartz known as rock-crystal.
The ewer was on the mantelpiece, crowded today with white lilies and white mop-headed chrysanths.
The decoration on the ewer that went with it was modelled on Briot's Mars Dish and on a piece known as the Suzannah Dish, which is also attributed to Briot.
The ewer is also decorated with floral and geometric designs.
The whole design is contained within a delicate raised band which goes around the neck and down the body of the ewer on either side of the handle.
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He found an ewer and basin, and his ablutions refreshed and invigorated him.
And she knelt down with ewer and basin and a napkin to wash the feet of the poor.
He got up and poured some water from the ewer into a cracked cup and drank it.
When he had undressed, he dipped a towel into his ewer and rubbed himself all over.
Luckily there was no water in the ewer because we had forgotten it, only dust and spiders.
He says as I'm the ony Englishman as he has ewer known who can allus giv a answer rite off to ewery question as he arsks me!
Without a word Oliver turned to a side-table, where stood a metal basin and ewer.
Chalice and paten, ewer and basin, crewet and chrismatory, are found as in the Western churches.
She was obliged to break the ewer to free the little dog's head.
The basin and the ewer had been smashed, the looking-glass was in fragments, and the sheets were in ribands.
What, when the great Pope washes the feet of beggars, using his tiara for ewer?
The bowl had scallops around the edge, and the ewer was tall and slim.
A basin of similar material and design accompanied the ewer.
And the ewer is said to be of gold, to express the dignity of the head.
Christie's said the ewer, which sold to an anonymous client in the saleroom, was made for the court of the Fatimid rulers of Cairo in the late 10th or early 11th century.
Yes, he must bring out seats and food for both, and in serving us present not ewer and napkin with more show of respect to the one than to the other.
Tibetan Buddhism or Lamaism was adopted as a religion by the first Qing emperors, and this duomuhu, or ewer, was used at court to honour Tibetan guests.
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.
He was the founder of the publishing house of novello and Ewer, and father of a famous musical family.
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