Idris took the gourd and without the slightest hesitation walked to the place by the stones which Stas had indicated.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Let us again go down to the spring house and get a bucket of water to set under the gourd on the kitchen table.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
The bonds of environment are bands of steel; the little boy that close to threescore years ago was Johnny Longstreet had been restricted by them, his growth had been that of a gourd with a strap about its middle; he had perforce grown in conformity with the commands of the outside pressure.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory