Another time I found a dry; gourd, inside of which the seeds rattled.
Then it was that the Hairless One filled the gourd for him.
Then, without saying anything to my mother, I snatched the gourd and ran with it to a little donga that was hard by, for I knew that there was a spring.
The boy, Unandi's son, having taken the gourd, did not offer the water to his mother.
It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry
gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its contents and pressing into it the juice of several bunches of grapes which hung from every bush.
She took the gourd in one hand, and rather than cause the giver pain raised it to her lips, though for the life of her she could scarce restrain the qualm of nausea that surged through her as the malodorous thing approached her nostrils.
It was Anderssen who came to her rescue, and taking the gourd from her, drank a portion himself, and then returned it to the native with a gift of blue beads.
The lacquey laughed, unsheathed his
gourd, unwalletted his scraps, and taking out a small loaf of bread he and Sancho seated themselves on the green grass, and in peace and good fellowship finished off the contents of the alforjas down to the bottom, so resolutely that they licked the wrapper of the letters, merely because it smelt of cheese.
A piece of bread was brought, and Jacopo offered him the gourd.
Dantes glanced that way as he lifted the gourd to his mouth; then paused with hand in mid-air.
Umbopa, assegai in hand and a rifle across his shoulders, looked out fixedly across the desert a few paces ahead of us; while the hired natives, with the
gourds of water, and Ventvogel, were gathered in a little knot behind.
Pots of food and
gourds of drink were being passed about among the audience.
Twenty times the
gourd or the venison was suspended before his lips, while his head was turned aside, as though he listened to some distant and distrusted sounds--a movement that never failed to recall his guests from regarding the novelties of their situation, to a recollection of the alarming reasons that had driven them to seek it.
I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and
gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.
I have three
gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights.
