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  • Mrs Weston had to pause a moment for her maid, Elizabeth Luton (cousin of Tommy), jogged her elbow with the dishcover in a manner that could not fail to remind her that Colonel Boucher was still waiting for his piece of brill.

    Queen Lucia 1903

  • For it holds it like glue -- Holds the lid to the dish, while it lies in the middle: Which is easiest to do, Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle? '

    Through the Looking Glass 1899

  • I’m really shtarting dishcover myshelf through the shoundsh and harmoneesh of shong.

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  • Tommas 'Day, or the day when the hole of the Common Counselmen has to go to their Constittuents for to be elected -- though what St. Tommas ewer had to do with it I never could dishcover, no more can BROWN -- we found as they was amost all on 'em a torkin about sum grate change, as a lot of outsiders called County Counsellors was a going for to try to get made; the werry principellist being, BROWN said, that they might have occashonal use of the Manshun Ouse, and so give grand Dinners to the

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 Various 1876

  • Take quinces, pare and put them into water, save all the parings and cores, let ’em lie in the water with the quinces, set them over the fire with the parings and cores to coddle, cover them close up at the top with the parings, and lie over them either a dishcover or pewter dish, and cover them close; let them hang over

    English Housewifery 2004

  • a woman in a print hood, and drawn by a drowsy-looking grey horse at the end of a long tow-rope, bearing a whistling boy seated sidewise on his back and a dishcover-like pail hanging from his collar.

    Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others George Manville Fenn 1870

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