pate

• At the long dining table, five out of the seven residents of the Refuge were already seated; an elaborate dinner of pheasant, julienne potatoes, pate, and Caesar salad was already laid out, though no one was yet eating, presumably waiting for Ray and -- that woman upstairs? —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
• Corrado ran a hand over the slick strands that failed to cover his gleaming pate, and Sean wondered, not for the first time, if there was some link between responsibility and baldness. —  EQMM,June2007
• TO A BLOCKHEAD You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home Alexander Pope. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• Another thing, too, some people have said, At the top of her body there grew out a head; And what perhaps might make some people stare Her little bald pate was all covered with hair. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• An epigram put the case very neatly Says Ainsworth to Colburn,[22 A plan in my pate is To give my romance, as A supplement, gratis Says Colburn to Ainsworth Twill do very nicely For that will be charging Its value precisely Harrison Ainsworth could not have his portrait painted, nor write a novel of crime and sensation, without being regarded as a convenient peg for pleasantry. —  The History of "Punch"

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