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Sentences ending with plate

And not a word would she speak to Chartersea the whole of the dinner, nor look to the right or left of her plate. [9]
Madame Duvarney responded with a look of interest, and the Seigneur's eyes steadied to his plate. [11]
Caesar was wont to say that this man's hands were matchless for lightness and delicacy of touch, but to-day they trembled as he lifted the laurel wreath from Caesar's head and unbuckled the padded breast plate. [10]
But what is the good of that; my grandfather will be angry, for in my terror I beat his father's nose quite flat on the plate. [10]
Whenever she did so in vain, she pushed her soft, golden hair back from her forehead, raised her beautiful head higher, or bit her lips and gazed silently into her plate. [10]
The Heinies are right here, soaking in another ditch beyond a barbed wire fence, about the distance of second base from the home plate. [9]
I used the plate. [9]
Nevertheless, he looked out of the corner of his eye at them as he took from the basket of the round-checked kitchen maid, who had now found her way to him, one fresh brown roll after another, and placed them beside plate after plate. [10]
The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate. [4]
If they do not die, those who fight for you will say that it doesn't matter whether men fight for you or betray you, they get the same stuff off the same plate. [11]

Sentences containing plate two or more times

See, it's bottomed with a steel plate, and the plate is fastened on with little screws. [5]
At a slight tap of her knife against her plate, he got all ready, and presently I saw her cross her knife and fork upon her plate, and as she did so, pop! [6]
One of 'em fetched a small plate and took my cup and set it on the plate. [9]
They are taken all the time; some of them are never developed, but I suppose these impressions are all there on the sensitive plate, and that the plate is permanently affected by the impressions. [4]

More example sentences with the word plate in them

In the right wing, but not in the left, there is a little plate, as transparent as talc, surrounded by nervures, and called the speculum. [1]
The steadfast man, who sat so silently with frowning brow among his family, sometimes attacking the viands on his plate, then leaving them untouched, did not look like one who yields to idle whims. [10]
But as I went in to luncheon, I passed a gentleman standing in custody of a plate half covered with sovereigns. [6]
But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower--going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. [5]
The old knight was smiling; how stately was his mien, and how well the silver breast plate beseemed him, with the golden lion rampant of the Im Hoffs! [10]
That is, she was right as to the rest of the world, but she warn't right about the part our village is in; that part is the shape of a plate, and flat, I take my oath! [5]
The woman's plate was bountifully supplied by Fleda, and her cup filled more than once by Madame Bulteel, while old Gabriel Druse bulked friendly over all. [11]
Unless he were very greatly mistaken, he could now walk the course; the plate was his, no matter what might be the entries. [6]
A bullet or two, a button, a brass plate from a soldier's belt, served well enough for mementos of my visit, with a letter which I picked up, directed to Richmond, Virginia, its seal unbroken. [6]
A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. [5]
They are as transparent as plate glass, and their coloring would shame the richest sky that ever bent over Italy. [5]
It would look too much like anxiety to get in at a feast where no plate had been provided for him. [5]
Thus they came to the sheltered vestibule with its glistening white paint, its polished name plate and doorknob. [9]
His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he flung it away. [2]
These blocks were to be set on end in a platter, in the center of dinner- tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things imprisoned in them could be seen as through plate glass. [5]
My grand-uncle loved to be quit of his guests at an early hour; hence no table was laid for them to sit down to meat, and each one held his plate in one hand. [10]
Why, half the time you can't read anything a prisoner writes on a tin plate, or anywhere else. [5]
They crossed the third great transverse artery of the city (not so long ago, Mr. Parr remarked, a quagmire), now lined by hotels and stores with alluring displays in plate glass windows and entered a wide boulevard that stretched westward straight to the great Park. [9]
In noblemen's houses there was abundance of arras, rich hangings of tapestry, and silver vessels, plate often to the value of one thousand and two thousand pounds. [4]
For six months the Victorian mansion opposite Uncle Tom's house had been sightless, with blue blinds drawn down inside the plate glass windows. [9]
Now it was the salt-cellar, the plate, and the bread; then it was a Duke's Daughter--a noble soul as ever lived--with a tasting-knife, as beautiful as a rose; then another lady enters who glares at me, and gets to her knees as does the other. [11]
I set down the plate and the pot before him and pressed the pewter spoon into his hand. [9]
There, Trautchen, take the plate and call the little ones. [10]
I wonder if the picture of the brain is there, "approved" by a noted Phrenologist, which was copied from my, the Professor's, folio plate, in the work of Gall and Spurzheim. [6]
The murmurs of the heathen were suddenly silenced; the multitude were so still that the least sound of one plate of armor against another was audible, that each man could hear his neighbor breathe, and that Gorgo fancied she could hear her own heart throb. [10]
In one of the apartments some rough-looking peasants are eating dinner, a frugal meal: a dish of unclean polenta, a plate of grated cheese, a basket of wormy figs, and some sour red wine; no bread, no meat. [4]
Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window. [5]
It cost more than the tear-jug, as the dealer said there was not another plate just like it in the world. [5]
And, while he strove to reduce the contents of his plate, he racked his brain for some subject of conversation. [9]
There was a statue to him, and another to De Saussure, in the hall of our hotel, and a metal plate on the door of a room upstairs bore an inscription to the effect that that room had been occupied by Albert Smith. [5]
At last he softly pushed his plate away, set his glass directly in front of him, held on to it with his left hand, and proceeded to pour with his right. [5]
The appeal had so stirred me that I could hardly wait for the hat or plate to come my way. [5]
There was a single large thick slice of bread by each boarder's plate, and it was observable that he economized it as if he were not expecting it to be duplicated. [5]
For the rest, she sat demurely, with her eyes on her plate, a model of propriety. [9]
When he had secured everything within his reach, he heaped his plate and began an attack upon the contents, using both knife and fork with wonderful proficiency. [4]
See also Mr. Salvin's interesting paper, with a plate, in the 'Ibis,' 1865, p. [1]
The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside his plate, and proposed a toast, "To the health of the hero of our last campaign, Prince Peter Ivanovich Bagration! [2]
She regretted having repulsed him, pushed her plate away from her, and rose. [9]
Bringing the antique plate, china, and bric-a-brac, made in France when Henri Quatre was king, she fared away to Quebec, set the rude mansion in order, and was happy for a whole summer, as was her husband, the best of fishermen and sportsmen. [11]
I've laid my plate on the table with a prayer that I get it filled with good political doctrine, and I've promise that the food I'm to get is what's best for all of us. [11]
In an old plate giving a view of the north side of Cheapside, London, in 1638, we see little but quaint gable ends and rows of small windows set close together. [4]
Five dollars wouldn't pay for the plate and the paper. [9]
The plate was passed too late. [5]
All except one--that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot. [5]
The knocker hung on the central door, but he did not venture to lift it and let it fall on the shining plate beneath, for he could expect no pleasant reception from his family. [10]
A violent clanging on a cracked metal plate roused him from his meditations by its harsh clamor; the sacrament of the Last Supper was about to be administered: the invariable conclusion of the Jacobite service. [10]
While talking, he often looked into his plate and hesitated. [10]
You needn't eat off the same plate, as they say in Quebec. [11]
To be lifted off the ground by strong arms at the moment you are about to dust the home plate with your adversary is humiliating, but effective. [9]
In the sense of the poet Goethe--that meek idolater of provincial three carat royalty and nobility--our press is certainly bankrupt in the "thrill of awe"--otherwise reverence; reverence for nickel plate and brummagem. [5]
In the privacy of the kitchen Hannah paused suddenly in her energetic rubbing of a plate and with supreme courage uttered a question. [9]
The last day of every month would I fetch that scrolled note to Mr. Carvel, and he laid it beside his plate until dinner was over. [9]
No lynching on my plate, thank you. [11]
But I kept my eyes on my plate. [9]
Enterprising Italians had monopolized the corners with fruit stores, and plate glass and asphalt were in evidence. [9]
She stood a moment to pull the intaglio ring from the finger where Beaton put it a year ago, and dashed that at her father's plate. [8]
He politely asked me if I would take a little paper from a heap there was lying by the plate, and add a sovereign to the collection already there. [6]
How can it matter so much to any one whether a gem or a mere plate of gold . [10]
There was a marvellous arrangement in the walls with which Edith was never tired of playing, a circular plate covered with legends of every conceivable want, from a newspaper to a needle and thread and a Scotch whiskey highball. [9]
At supper, Cynthia listened with her eyes on her plate while he told her of the affair. [9]
Her soul was like a polished plate of metal on which a picture is etched. [10]
His way of life was simple, his needs not complex; all he wanted was plate and bed and money enough to get drunk on, and he was satisfied. [5]
He was at large expense in fitting out the Ranger, and he bought back at twice what it was worth the plate taken from St. Mary's Isle, getting but a tardy recognition from the Earl of Selkirk for such a noble and unheard-of action. [9]
To put a large bill in the plate on Sunday, to open her purse wide for the objects of charity and relief daily presented, was indeed a privilege and a pleasure, and a satisfaction to the conscience which occasionally tripped her in her rapid pace. [4]
Look at the Keystone Plate people, over there at Morris. [9]
The young man John fell into a train of reflections which ended in his producing a Bologna sausage, a plate of "crackers," as we Boston folks call certain biscuits, and the bottle of whiskey described as being A 1. [6]
That copper plate is in one of the churches in Rome, now. [5]
Far down West Indies way, some twenty-five, maybe, or thirty years ago, there was a plate ship wrecked upon a reef. [11]
Sometimes she trembled in indignation, and then afterwards gave herself to the work on the estate or in the household--its reform and its rearrangement; though the house was like most in Jamaica, had adequate plate, linen, glass and furniture. [11]
After she'd left I found a broken plate tucked into the ash-barrel. [4]
I had four hundred dollars in my pocket, and I was anxious to drop it in the plate and wanted to borrow more. [5]
He went to his bed, but not to sleep for many hours, and when he came down to his breakfast in the morning, he was in no mood to read the letter from Cambridge which Mrs. Holden had put on his plate. [9]
Protestantism says,--"Help yourself; here's a clean plate, and a knife and fork of your own, and plenty of fresh dishes to choose from. [6]
And there upon her plate lay a pearl necklace. [9]
He pulled out her chair for her and she sat down, confronted by a series of knives, forks, and spoons on either side of a plate of oysters. [9]
I stood to hearken, and I now perceived that the metal plate whereon the knocker fell was wrapped in felt. [10]
In a word, he would have had every stone, and plate of brass, the monument only of deeds whose memory should survive. [12]
They wanted plate, he had none; such glass vessels as he had they thought too base. [4]
Only those things he always kept with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber--a present from his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov. [2]
Some lavish demon has turned a worthless plate of gold into a costly gem.--And may I ask who it was that saw the empty setting hanging to your chain? [10]
The sensitive plate has taken one look at a scene, and remembers it all, Every little circumstance is there,--the hoof in air, the wing in flight, the leaf as it falls, the wave as it breaks. [6]
Miss Clare Browne had a similar curiosity about the amount of plate used in the household from which Myrtle came. [6]
Standing behind his guests at table, he had an air of peremptory patronage, and the voice in which he shot out the inquiry, as he seized Philip's plate, "Beefsteak or liver? [5]
There are new fortunes, undoubtedly, munitions and war fortunes made before certain measures were taken to control profits; and some establishments, including a few supported by American accumulations, still exhibit the number of men servants and amount of gold plate formerly thought adequate. [9]
Specially sweet odors floated over to him from the hot surface of the stove before the booth, and he would have gladly allowed himself a plate of fresh cakes. [10]
Harry, with blue eyes, fresh complexion, silken whiskers and curly chestnut hair, was as handsome as a fashion plate. [5]
Cynthia kept her eyes on her plate, but she felt as though her body were afire. [9]
The most touching evidence of his unhappiness--whether intentional or the result of accident was not evident was a broken heart, which he left upon his plate, the meaning of which was as plain as anything in the language of flowers. [6]
He had hewn every beam and king post in it, and set every plate and slip. [9]
Send me the entire edition--together with the plate and the original portrait--and name your own price. [5]
You'd see them dripping from the rafters and places every now and then; and they generly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck, and most of the time where you didn't want them. [5]
What must she do but buy a small copper breast-pin and put it under "Schoolma'am's" plate that morning, at breakfast? [6]
Yes, a magnificent dinner, with no end of servants, who seemed to know that I couldn't have paid the wages of one of them, and plate and courses endless. [4]
At this same dinner to the Constable of Castile, the two buffets of the king and queen in the audience-chamber, where the banquet was held, were loaded with plate of exquisite workmanship, rich vessels of gold, agate, and other precious stones. [4]
Going to the cupboard, she hastily heaped a plate with food, and, taking a dipper of water from a pail near by, she entered her bedroom hastily and placed what she had brought on a small table, as her visitor rose slowly from the bed. [11]
Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other guests. [2]
He wore a clean, ruffled shirt, an exceeding neat coat and breeches of blue broadcloth, with plate burnished buttons, and white cotton stockings. [9]
When it finally came to me, my enthusiasm had gone down so much that I kept my four hundred dollars--and stole a dime from the plate. [5]
Then she grew calmer, and it was not until after the doctrinal sermon which Hugh had predicted that her heart began to beat painfully once more, when the gentleman who had conducted her to her seat passed her the plate. [9]
Recognized it instantly, by recollection of the plate in "Rees's Cyclopedia," as Herschel's great telescope.--Oxford. [6]

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