"Plateful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suspended iron sheet, and in a minute or two the cook appeared again with a large plateful of sliced pork which he laid down ...
— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss
... produce valuable fruits; nearly all are remarkable for the abundance of their early flowers, sometimes rendered double by cultivation. And now," added the young lady, "we have arrived at the story, which is translated from the German; and in Germany the cherries are particularly fine. A plateful of this beautiful fruit was, as you will see, the cause ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
... plateful of butternuts; picking out meats, I mean, from the cracked nuts, to make a plateful; and that, if you know butternuts, you know is no small task. She brought them to her mother, with some grated maple sugar sprinkled among ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... coffee was steaming in two little Dresden cups, one minus a handle. There was a plateful of crackers, buttered and toasted, a bit of Swiss cheese. Frank had never ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... She's not a naturally unreasonable person, but she has learned by experience that it doesn't do to disobey Grandma's orders. Grandma is an excellent woman but people must do as she tells them. She was very much pleased with me this morning because I managed at last to eat all my plateful of porridge. It was a great effort but I succeeded. Grandma says she thinks she'll make a man of me yet. But, teacher, I want to ask you a very important question. You will answer it ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
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