dinner plates
- plural of dinner plate.
Example Sentences
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"I knowed ye, Kittle-belly Bickford, when ye wore patches on your pants bigger'n dinner-plates and—" President Kitchen let loose the hasp that held up the drop-door and fairly "pegged" Mr. Todd out of sight.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman
Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd?
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
We take possession of nations, not by thunder of war, but by clatter of dinner-plates.
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
I do not see the wisdom of decorating dinner-plates with sunsets and soup-plates with moonlight scenes.
From Essays and Lectures by Wilde, Oscar
She was handling the dinner-plates in a rather clumsy manner, and, after the fashion of a discontented little girl, was sighing over her work, and not doing it properly.
From The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls by Meade, L. T.
