rice-bowl

There was plenty of rice-bowl guarding by the moderator and his lovely wife -- as soon as you stepped away from the eclectic-is-best party line and refused to toe it, you were gone.

Cut and Run Steve Perry 2007

I think we react instinctively to the terrible deprivation going on there in a place that should be the rice-bowl of Asia, should be the richest place in Asia.

CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007 2007

He set the rice-bowl aside and drank his tea, trying to push all the past away again, while the armor weighed heavy on his shoulders and bound about his ribs, and the sun sank toward twilight.

2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

The common Chinks eat out of a communal rice-bowl, but even the lowliest Manchoo will have his separate rice-dish, as Szu-Zhan and her companions did.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The common Chinks eat out of a communal rice-bowl, but even the lowliest Manchoo will have his separate rice-dish, as Szu-Zhan and her companions did.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The common Chinks eat out of a communal rice-bowl, but even the lowliest Manchoo will have his separate rice-dish, as Szu-Zhan and her companions did.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Tatsu looked up from his rice-bowl in some surprise.

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Poultry of all kinds are very fond of "scraps;" the children were always told to cut up pieces of potatoes, greens, or meat, which they might leave on their plates at the nursery dinner; and when they were removed to the kitchen, they were collected together and put into the rice-bowl for the chickens.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

Foh-Kyung set down his rice-bowl from his left hand and his ivory chop-sticks from his right.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

In the meantime, Mother mine, my days are full and worried, and I, as in the olden time, can only come to thee with my rice-bowl filled with troubles and pour them all into thy kindly lap.

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard Elizabeth Cooper 1911