They look like small tanks or very large pepper pots.
The one that looked like a pepper pot just skidded down it, and fell over at the bottom.
If it rained, he thought, the cloth would leak like a pepper pot.
At the bottom of the buttress is the 'box' or 'pepper pot'.
What'd Alfred do, spill the pepper pot into this stuff?
A trademark was Wells's "pepper pot" mute which he made himself.
Detailed work on the pepper pot independently suggests that "lady" would be a more appropriate label.
Both the shop and the pub are situated in the centre of the village by the pepper pot, which is a small shelter.
The dominant shade is black: tables, chairs, floor tiles - even the pepper pots.
Dalgliesh had the sensation of being suspended in a decorative pepper pot between sky and sea.