This penalty was carried out using a large cauldron filled with water, oil, tar, tallow or even molten lead.
An alternative method was to use a large shallow receptacle rather than a cauldron; oil, tallow or pitch then being poured in.
The house would be full of beds. The blaze in the oven died down while Wang Lung thought of all the beds there would be in the half empty house, and the water began to chill in the cauldron.
He ran over to a neighbour's house to borrow a cauldron.
According to quantum mechanics, empty space is anything but empty. Rather, it is a roiling, seething cauldron of evanescent particles.
Finally, the cauldron was lit by a jet of fire from Chinese Olympic hero li Ning, who had been hoisted up to the roof of the stadium on wires.
The cauldron of life bubbles over, and it is a rare mixture of possibilities.
The rich courtly gear of a Saxon king found at Sutton Hoo, meanwhile, includes a massive cauldron and drinking horns, suggesting the importance of feasting to our ancestors.
Larson peeks into a cauldron of brewing questions, yet backs away without letting us look inside.
Exhaling clouds of gas, a cauldron of lava boils in the mile-wide crater of Nyiragongo, an active volcano in the Congo that threatens two million people.
Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash.
Soon, the sea is a bubbling cauldron of milky white foam and spray.
The 150 men from Ranpur and two neighboring hamlets were told to pick a copper ring from a cauldron of boiling oil.
Everyone crowded around a huge cauldron of boiling sap.
The motto is engraved on a cauldron.
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