Could she pull across those black two miles between the dippers before it got so much thicker that she would lose her way?
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
So I proceeded to gather up the gun, axe, paddle, kettle, frying-pan, plates, dippers, carpets, etc.
"Canoeing in the wilderness"
Henry David Thoreau
Hastily scraping the various articles together, I started on the run, and immediately went by him in the bushes, but I had no sooner left him out of sight in a rocky hollow than the greasy plates, dippers, etc.
"Canoeing in the wilderness"
Henry David Thoreau