What he misses most, then, is not his horses and carriages and fine houses; it is his table, and the clean napkins and the linen, and hot plates and the quite thin glasses.
The table had two plates on it, two knives, two forks, and two big china cups.
Whereupon King Loc made a sign to his treasurer who, raising heavy tapestries, disclosed an enormous iron-bound coffer covered with platesof open ironwork.
At least, I for one have never seen plates that fit like the plates of Wedgwood, and become one solid mass.
The inventor of this ingenious process of casting plates from pages of type was William Ged, a goldsmith of Edinburgh, in 1735.
After all this anxious care to obtain perfection, the plate is pronounced ready for working, and when made up with the other plates into the proper form, it may be worked either at the hand-press or by machine.
He "stereotyped" some Bibles and Prayer-books, and the sheets worked off from his plates were admitted equal in point of appearance and accuracy to those printed from the type itself.
Again the bronze plates sounded thrice, and the solemnity was ended.
When he entered, he found Mefres and Sem arrayed as high priests, with silver plates on their bosoms.
They often shared plates and drinking vessels at the table.
Menus were put together with foods that tasted well together and served on plates in several courses.
Tom was delighted, and started off gleefully to perform the sample errand, which was to take a basketful of china plates to the house of a rich merchant who lived four miles back in the country.
The plates were all right, and now they are all left.
I am your Fairy Godmother, and I have come to tell you that if you will gather up the broken plates and take them up to the great house yonder, I will fix it so that you can go to the circus.
When she returned, having disposed of all the plates of shrimps, she found that Tommy was home from school and was in a state of great excitement.
Mrs. Tregennis answered it and returned with the plates and the soup-tureen.
It was a tight squeeze but a place was found for all the guests who, in deep embarrassment, looked at the well-piled plates in front of them.
At Agra he has a palace, in which are two large towers, at least ten feet square, covered with plates of pure gold.
The beam and tressels from which it hung were covered with thin plates of gold.
The first lord-elephant had all the plates on his head and breast set with rubies and emeralds, being a beast of most wonderful stature and beauty.
Nagracutt, or Nakarkut, with its chief city of the same name, in which there is a temple most richly adorned, the ceiling and pavement being of plates of pure gold.
In the earliest existing plates the crested helms are all drawn turned towards the high altar, consequently those on the north side of the quire face heraldically towards the sinister.
Under the same enlightened administration the most recent stall-plates are enamelled creations of real artistic and heraldic excellence.
The colour of the cap of estate was almost invariably red, with a lining of ermine, but in two of the early stall-plates it is blue.
Crowns were not by any means always of gold or silver, and quite a number of pre-Tudor stall-plates have them enamelled red, and in two cases blue.
This may be seen, for example, in several of the early stall-plates at Windsor (figs.
The two plates just noted, and at least one other, have been transferred from one side of the quire to the other.
Two examples among the early stall-plates at Windsor, those of Hugh Stafford lord Bourchier (fig.
He was an engraver by profession, having studied under James Smithers, and engraved most of the plates for the magazine.
In return for the firm's name on the title-page she agreed to pay the entire cost of the plates and of the first edition of two thousand copies, and the usual per cent.
I am told that in the iron districts of Staffordshire, the round bits of iron punched out in making rivet holes in boilerplates are the modern representatives of hucklebones.
There were fresh offerings inplates and bowls--Oh!
As the Prince finished his prayers I placed, one after another, the plates and dishes before him.
She greases plates in a pie bakery in Sullivan street by day, and so earns her own living.
They are the orthodox, who cannot break bread with the rest, for fear, though the food be kosher, the plates have been defiled.
These words had great effect in calming the agitation of the young ladies, and in a few minutes they were able to dismiss the negro girls and the scent bottles and the plates of burnt feathers, and to sit up and enter into conversation.
Our seats were secured to the deck, and the dishes were lashed to the table, while it required no small amount of ingenuity and rapidity to convey each mouthful from our plates to our mouths.
Through the open door to the left she might have seen the waiter still busy over his platesand glasses, while the gentleman who had been breakfasting had only just finished his newspaper.
It is one of the accomplishments of the Neapolitan street boy to devour at lightning speed great plates of macaroni, in return for the soldi of the stranger.
The soup plates had been removed when Marion appeared at dinner.
I'm after serving themselves out of golden goblets and glass plates the color of Ireland's green.
The crystal and gold of theplates and goblets did not seem so lovely as before.
Half way between the centerpiece and the plates a line of dancing figures ran around the table linked to each other by chains made of wee golden hearts.
At one side Ethel Brown controlled the "Murphy Table" and sold huge hot baked Irish potatoes and paper plates of potato salad and crisp potato "chips" ready to be taken home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
