Cruets [noun]

He was shedding tears copiously, and wiping them on a cruet-stand he carried in one hand.

There were little domesticities of intimate life about him, an empty soup-dish, a cruet-stand, a plate and a spoon.

Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.

This simple yet ingenious contrivance is far prettier than our somewhat vulgar cruet-stand.

A short time before he had calmly looked me in the face across the table, and pledged me in the vinegar-cruet, which he emptied.

Each had in the center a vinegar cruet, a sugar bowl, salt and pepper shakers.

He threw the cruet in the dustbin—where I found it, along with other silver—for the sake of a burglary blind.

To the tablecloth an overturned cruet-stand mingled with egg gave colour.

He went straight through to the old table, propped his book against the cruet and began to read.

The fact is, it is vinegar-cruet against sugar-bowl in perpetual controversy.