"Ladle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bagobo story collected by Miss Benedict (JAFL 26 : 21), where a ladle becomes a monkey's tail; also an African saga in Daehnhardt (3 ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... Bignonias, Echites, and Allamandas, with yellow ones, scrambled and tumbled everywhere; and, if not just there, then often enough elsewhere, might be seen a single Aristolochia scrambling up a low tree, from which hung, amid round leaves, huge flowers shaped like a great helmet with a ladle at the lower lip, a foot or more across, of purplish colour, spotted like a toad, and about as fragrant ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley
... old peasant woman in short skirt, heavy shoes and big apron, her arms bared to the elbow, a saucepan in one hand, a ladle in the other. She beamed ...
— The Incomplete Amorist • E. Nesbit
... of our friend Caleb, towards whom, for reasons to which the reader is no stranger, he nourished a decided resentment. He raised his riding-wand against the elder matron, but she stood firm, collected in herself, and undauntedly brandished the iron ladle with which she had just been "flambing" (Anglice, basting) the roast of mutton. Her weapon was certainly the better, and her arm not the weakest of the two; so that Gilbert thought it safest to turn short off upon his wife, who had by this time hatched a sort of hysterical whine, ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... a turkey down to roast, dredge it with flour; then put about an ounce of butter into a basting-ladle, and as it melts, baste ...
— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner
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