A tent with loose curtain flapping in the breeze stood on a slight rise, with sundry piles of boards and framed timber lying on the grass about it, while Thorne and a young lad stood beside a fire above which a four-gallon coal-oil can hung boiling.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
"It would take more than a gallon of rum to make old Cameron loosen his purse strings," she remembered having heard Conal say.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
He would order a basket of chicken sandwiches, a gallon of iced tea, and three pink umbrellas, and they would have a royal time of it.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson