Citations:cask


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Upon this occasion of removing my ammunition I happened to open the barrel of powder which I took up out of the sea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had penetrated about three or four inches into the powder on every side, which caking and growing hard, had preserved the inside like a kernel in the shell, so that I had near sixty pounds of very good powder in the centre of the cask.
 * I found, besides these chests, a little cask full of liquor, of about twenty gallons, which I got into my boat with much difficulty.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs; slowly too: trimming his candle as he went.