slop-bowl

She had fixed the big tea-pot among the embers, and held a slop-bowl of tea in her lap, discoursing to

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

When the Rose had bulged her flanks with the complete haddock, when, responsive to a "Stuff your head in that, you brute," the patient creature had lapped a slop-bowl full of milk, George again imprisoned her; rushed, basket under arm, for open country.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

She says she can't spatter round in a room; she wants all creation for a slop-bowl.

Real Folks 1865

I have seven on hand now, and barely time to read my own, 'said Mrs Jo, pensively fishing a small letter out of the slop-bowl and opening it with care, because the down-hill address suggested that a child wrote it.

Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott 1860

After this somewhat lengthened speech, Dick Moy swallowed a slop-bowlful of coffee at a draught -- he always used a slop-bowl -- and applied himself with renewed zest to a Norfolk dumpling, in the making of which delicacy his wife had no equal.

The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1859

She would have liked to sit behind her tea-tray as she used to do in the good old hard-working days, with a small pile of buttered toast on the slop-bowl, kept warm by hot water below.

Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848

When tea is sent round, always send a teapot of hot water to weaken it, and a slop-bowl, or else many persons will drink their tea much stronger than they wish.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839

God be betwixt us and all evil’ and she took a long pull at the slop-bowl; and, as the liquid flowed down her throat, she gradually threw back her head till the top of her mop cap was flattened against the side of the wide fire-place, and the bowl was turned bottom upwards, so that the half-melted brown sugar might trickle into her mouth.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

a slop-bowl of tea in her lap, discoursing to Nelly, who with her hair somewhat more than ordinarily dishevelled, in token of grief for Anty's illness, was seated on a low stool, nursing a candle-stick.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

Only two have broken since -- oh yes, Hannah, the girl who came after Emily, chipped off the handle of the sugar-basin and broke a bit out of the slop-bowl. "

Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915