Saucers
[sɔ:səz]
Examples
- There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Do you use your mistress' best saucers for that? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- However, there was no help for it, and the tea-tray came, with seven cups and saucers, and bread-and-butter on the same scale. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was quite a pile of saucers now on the table in front of me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It looks as if it might be roofed, from centre to circumference, with inverted saucers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She pronounced the tea to be excellent, and praised the exquisite taste in which the marmalade was arranged in the saucers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Judy, with a gong-like clash and clatter, sets one of the sheet-iron tea-trays on the table and arranges cups and saucers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For use place in plates or saucers partly filled with water where the flies can get at them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Flora's tenderness was quite overcome by this, and she launched out among the cups and saucers into a wonderful flow of tears and speech. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr Venus, having wafted his attention to this discourse over three successive saucers of tea, signified his concurrence in the views advanced. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Priscilla