Very soon the young man's chopsticks were twinkling like a little star in the verses.
His greatest pleasure was to eat at some one else's table when he knew that the food would cost him nothing, and you may be sure that at such times he always licked his chopsticks clean.
Here rice is kept in wooden bins all ready steaming hot for the use of travellers; good tea is brewed in a few minutes; the tables and chopsticks are sufficiently clean.
Two foreign chairs were brought for my use, and half a dozen dishes of good food and clean chopsticks were set before me.
Lady Feng, upon hearing this suggestion, complied with it by catching some egg-plant and salt-fish with two chopsticks and putting them into old goody Liu's mouth.
Neither did the clatter of bowls andchopsticks reach their ears.
On the one, were arranged cups, chopsticks and every article necessary for drinking wine.
Goody Liu forthwith stretched out the chopsticks with the intent of catching one; but how could she manage to do so?
Lady Feng took a napkin and wrapped a bundle of chopsticks in it.
Several men are seated on their heels round this peripatetic kitchen, shovelling down with their chopsticks the good things contained in their bowls.
Here we have to provide plates and cups and saucers as well as knives and forks, for such things are never used by the Chinese, as a few bowls and chopsticks are all that are ever seen in any home in China.
He then selects with his chopsticks a bit of salted turnip and drops it into the very centre of the steaming rice.
Then, again, the beans and bacon were pronounced excellent by each of them, and Stacy had made fully as good time with his crudechopsticks as had the others with the tablespoons.
You can go cut yourself a few chopsticks and sleep under them," retorted Ned Rector.
And you don't have to eat with chopsticks unless you want to.
But," you say, "chopsticks are so difficult to use!
What they need is not to learn to use knives and forks instead ofchopsticks or fingers.
The lacquer rice-bowls and the chopsticks must be set in their proper order, according to the importance of each person in the family.
Then comes rice, and the chopsticks of the Japanese feasters go to work in marvellous fashion.
The intoxicating liquor called sake was known in Japan during the mythical period, and so were chopsticks for eating food with.
But rice-bowls and chopsticks held their everyday place as of old.
And it is alleged that whoever eats with chopsticks made from the wood of that tree will never have the toothache, and will live to become exceedingly old.
As I ate my morning meal, spluttering the rice over the floor as I tried vainly to control my chopsticks with frost-nipped fingers, they went through the filthy round of early morning routine.
When the Antique heard of this, she swallowed her chopsticks in a fit of rage and spite, and died of suffocation.
Then porcelain plates and spoons of the finest quality, and ivory chopsticks tipped with pearl, were distributed about, and the birds'-nest soup was brought on.
He picked up a bowl of rice, stirred it critically with one of the chopsticks their jailers had provided, and snuffed at the mixture.
Peter Gross took the other bowl and began eating, wielding the chopsticks expertly.
At one end of the table, when the gods were supposed to sit during the meal, chairs were set; and chopsticks were laid in order by the side of every dish.
The Chinese place the bowls of food, one at a time, in the center of the table and everyone eats out of these bowls, sticking their chopsticks in and helping themselves to what they want.
Chopsticks were also discarded and the food was conveyed to the mouth by the hands alone.
The chopsticksdemanded all his attention, and the return of the girls took up the rest.
We sprawled ungracefully on red rugs over the mats, and they gave us chopsticks to separate the cake with.
With a pair of tiniest steel chopsticks they filled from bowls at their sides each compartment of the pattern with its proper hue of paste.
The queen sat at the head of the table, and could hold the chopsticks in her paws quite as well as any one.
The chopsticks must be of wood, painted red, and they must be old ones that have been often used.
The mention of the ends of chopsticks as an ingredient in this preparation seems curious, and specially noteworthy is the fact that the medicinal virtue resides only in old chopsticks, not in new ones.
The children were given chopsticks with which to fish out the meat, and were expected to take the soup from the bowl.
When An Ching could get away, she took the children's bowls and chopsticks into the small court, and they fetched their food from the cook-house.
I see them sitting naked to the waist at their banquets; for it is very hot, but they use their chopsticks as daintily and pledge each other in sake almost as graciously as men of a better class.
Chopsticks were in evidence, though the guests were not compelled to use them.
A nice idea would be to give chopsticks as souvenirs.
On the morning of New Year's Day tradition requires us to use chopsticks prepared hastily of mulberry twigs in handling rice-paste cakes called mochi, which the people cook with various edibles and eat, as a sort of religious ceremony.
Grace before meat was a thing unknown to us; my brother, however, had a queer habit of bowing to his chopsticks at the close of meals.
He slipped into the little music room where the piano had been installed, turned a handspring on the floor, and then sat down and played chopsticks on the piano with all the pedals on, till Ma had to send Emily in to stop him.
Say, Betty, I can play the base of chopsticks now!
A paper bag containing a pair of chopsticks also rested upon the tray; and taking the chopsticks out, we uncovered our soup and began to look around to see how our Japanese friends were eating theirs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chopsticks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
