dinner-plates

One's family should be grateful for whatever arrives on their dinner-plates, sez I. (Reply to this) (Thread) mrissa

mrissa: Whoooosh. mrissa 2010

I want to get rid of the plates we bought when we first moved to Volda, scratched and chipped dinner-plates.

Archive 2004-06-01 Torill 2004

“There is a coffee service of china in the salon,” said M. Paul, as I looked at the six green and white dinner-plates; the four dishes, the cups and jugs to match.

Villette 2003

And one of them is, that the precession of the dinner-plates, and the nutation of the glasses, do not promote the music of the spheres.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 Various

Hot dinner-plates are prepared when the fish is removed, and on these hot plates the butler serves all the meats; the guests are also served with hot plates before the _entr‚es_, except _p t‚ de foie gras_, for which a cold plate is necessary.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

On the table nearest the door should be the carving-knives and the first dinner-plates to be used.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

I remembered so well, and the old-fashioned dinner-plates, and the big fire roaring in the broad white fireplace; but more than all, the beautiful pictures on the walls and a table in a corner strewn with papers, magazines, and several very new-looking books.

My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

Salvation Army band and the miserable music of winkles rattling on dinner-plates.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

He made cheerful noises by breaking off the necks of the bottles with several of his wife's wedding-present dinner-plates, and during the earlier part of this great drunk he sang divers merry ballads.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

The tea-cups were white with a pattern of pink roses; and the dinner-plates were white and blue.

The Pie and the Patty-pan 1905