canteen

"You will conduct this good fellow and his companions to the little tents of the canteens, in front of the marshes, so that they will be near their bark, and yet will not sleep on board to-night.

All the head that I saw the monster possessed of was one of those Hessian canteens which resemble a large snuff-box with a hole in the middle of the lid.

We had shot a deer just before our halt, and, as Taylor and Delcarte were preparing it, I walked down to the water to fill our canteens. I had just finished, and was straightening up, when something floating around a bend above me caught my eye.

The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.

Presently few carried anything but their necessary clothing, blankets, haversacks, canteens, and arms and ammunition.

Here the men prepared and ate their frugal meal, and refilled their canteens.

Each man had an opera-glass, a canteen, and a guide-book case slung over his shoulder, and carried an alpenstock in one hand and a sun-umbrella in the other.

I forced water from my canteen between his dead lips, bathed his face and rubbed his hands, working over him continuously for the better part of an hour in the face of the fact that I knew him to be dead.

He passed a great brewery transformed into a canteen, from which a line of waggons, going and returning, were passing all the time backwards and forwards into the valley.

He filled his canteen from the river and fetched him fruits to eat.

Send the guards to take their meal in the canteen of Monsieur de Chavigny; we'll have a supper here under your direction."

Only those things he always kept with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber- a present from his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov.