egg-cups

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

He rushed to the cupboard, seizing from the table one of the many egg-cups with which his princely board was served for the matin meal, drew out a bottle of right Nantz or Cognac, filled and emptied the cup several times, and laid it down with a hoarse

The Rose and the Ring 2006

Something had gone wrong with the bacon, and the lack of egg-cups was not in the least humorous.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

We bumped the round heavy end of the eggs, and stood them up on our plates, native fashion, and felt we had learnt a trick that might be useful when egg-cups fell short in England.

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Boil the macaroni in salt and water until soft; drain it well and cut into rings about one-quarter inch long; have some small cups shaped like egg-cups; grease the sides slightly and place in the bottom of each cup a circular piece of cold boiled ham, fitting closely.

Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book Carrie V. Shuman

_ -- That the Romans used egg-cups, and of a shape very similar to our own, the ruins at Pompeii and other places afford ocular demonstration.

Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

Then brown with a salamander and serve up hot in egg-cups.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 Various

They consist of egg-cups, paper-knives, forks, spoons, &c., carved in wood and resembling similar objects made in Switzerland and the Black Forest.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

There was cold bacon, too poisonous in appearance to touch, and hot eggs, but no egg-cups, of course.

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