I trust that is not that Pie: the
spoons are locked up, however," said Ribby.
A sum that in the days ere the silver
spoon had melted, I staked in careless moods of an instant on a turn of the cards.
A vast deal of searching and rummaging ensued, and it proving fruitless, Smike was called in, and pushed by Mrs Squeers, and boxed by Mr Squeers; which course of treatment brightening his intellects, enabled him to suggest that possibly Mrs Squeers might have the
spoon in her pocket, as indeed turned out to be the case.
The table was laid with two bowls and two horn
spoons, but the same single measure of small beer.
Alderman saw my money, he said, 'Well, madam, now I am satisfied you were wronged, and it was for this reason that I moved you should buy the
spoons, and stayed till you had bought them, for if you had not had money to pay for them, I should have suspected that you did not come into the shop with an intent to buy, for indeed the sort of people who come upon these designs that you have been charged with, are seldom troubled with much gold in their pockets, as I see you are.
She showed her perception of this similarity by laying the label KEY upon the key, and the label
SPOON upon the
spoon.
You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold
spoon, as a good many of 'em do
Every man retired from the
spoon, as Clennam did, cowed and baffled.
He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and
spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity:
We resumed business; and while plying our
spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?
The children were then called, like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush; some with oyster- shells, others with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, and none with
spoons.
And the pushmi-pullyu took the little boy on his back and gave him a ride round the dining-room table; while all the other animals followed behind, beating the dish-covers with
spoons, pretending it was a parade.
