apple-corer

The heart of The Great Hall of the Machines, actually an interconnecting series of great and small halls, had been slipped out as by a cosmic apple-corer.

The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

Take out the centers with an apple-corer and fill them up with the following stuffing: One tablespoon of grated Parmesan cheese mixed with two hard-boiled eggs and chopped parsley.

Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

If we had no apple-corer, we should either have to scoop out the core with the point of a knife, when we should be in danger of cutting our fingers, or we should have to take it from the slices separately.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Peel the skin off very thinly, Mary, and stamp out the core with the little instrument called the apple-corer.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Take six small onions, remove the centers with an apple-corer.

Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola

Take out the centers with an apple-corer and fill them up with the following stuffing: One tablespoon of grated

Simple Italian Cookery 1912

Take six small onions, remove the centers with an apple-corer.

Simple Italian Cookery 1912

The "candles" had been cut with an apple-corer, and the "wicks" were bits of almond cut the right shape and stuck in the top of the candle.

Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902

"Don Ippolito tells me he loves you, and he goes to America with the expectation that when he has made his fortune with a patent back-action apple-corer, you will marry him."

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878

For if things like this are going to happen, the ladies will be afraid to sleep alone in the house if so much as a sewing-machine or apple-corer be about, and will not dare take solitary walks along any stream where there is a water power.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850