flagon - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • ale: Yet when she returned to the inn, she saw that the loaf of bread was untouched and the flagon of ale was full.
  • wine: Arriving in Algiers, it unloaded and left for Mostaganem where it took on barrels and, below deck, flagons of wine.
  • mead: Flagons of mead, ale or wine are placed on the tables.
  • mercury: In the next room I saw several large vessels of muscatel wine and four flagons of mercury, each containing about ten pounds.
  • water: Everyone had their own water bottle and a flagon of water was always kept in each of the two Toyotas.

Converse of object

  • include: The collection included unusual pewter flagons, measures, chargers and plates and was estimated to fetch between £ 10,000 â £ 12,000.
  • fill: In front of her is a flagon filled with nectar and beside her the much coveted cow of plenty.
  • make: All had been concealed in a gray flagon made at the well-known pottery production of Alice Holt in present-day Hampshire.

Adjective modifier

  • pewter: There are also two pewter flagons, dated 1703.
  • silver: One peculiarity should be noticed, the rarity of silver Communion flagons, especially in Cumberland, down to recent times.
  • small: Three coarseware cinerary urns containing cremated bones and also two small flagons.
  • great: And when we drink again it shall be from the great flagons in the tavern at the end of the world.

Noun used with modifier

  • silver: It has long been known that water carried in silver flagons stays fresh.
  • wine: Players have just choice of waterways mark twain must wine flagons and.

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