"I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver
dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!"
Very carefully the Magician removed this powder, placing it all together in a golden
dish, where he mixed it with a golden spoon.
She had plunged the breakfast
dishes into a tin dish-pan and was bending above it with her slim arms bared to the elbow, the steam from the hot water beading her forehead and tightening her rough hair into little brown rings like the tendrils on the traveller's joy.
The number of
dishes is sufficient; but then it is such a monotonous variety of UNSTRIKING
dishes.
And they flew down into the ashes; and the little doves put their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began pick, pick, pick; and they put all the good grain into the
dishes, and left all the ashes.
"Well then," said Sancho, "that
dish of roast partridges there that seems so savoury will not do me any harm."
When Louise Trunnion came out of the front door of her house she still wore the gingham dress in which she had been washing
dishes. There was no hat on her head.
Induced to take particular notice of the housekeeper, both by her own striking appearance and by Wemmick's preparation, I observed that whenever she was in the room, she kept her eyes attentively on my guardian, and that she would remove her hands from any
dish she put before him, hesitatingly, as if she dreaded his calling her back, and wanted him to speak when she was nigh, if he had anything to say.
Coquenard distributed this
dish to the young men with the moderation of a good housewife.
Haigha took a large cake out of the bag, and gave it to Alice to hold, while he got out a
dish and carving-knife.
"I WILL get some worms and go fishing and catch a
dish of minnows for my dinner," said Mr.
They visited that next, and found a table and
dishes in the dining tent, with plenty of those things necessary to use in cooking.