1 It was an enormous bottomless trough in which the hogs could swill and wallow.
2 But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapoury jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 3 It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground.
4 He that ate fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the best place; and few left the trough satisfied.
5 The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.
6 The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 7 The lamp still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining the trough.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 8 Red-Cap carried until the great trough was quite full.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In LITTLE RED-CAP [LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD] 9 At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough.
10 Some fill and empty the windy bellows of their blast, some dip the hissing brass in the trough.
11 It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares.
12 The horses were eating oats from their movable troughs and sparrows flew down and pecked the grains that fell.