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Example sentences for "platters"

Lexicographically close words:
platoon; platoons; plats; platted; platter; platting; platyrhine; platysma; plaudit; plaudits
  1. When I went to awaken her for lunch, I started, for some more of those platters were on the table by her bed and a white woolly rabbit and a picture book!

  2. Greeks, it is told that it was of grass-green emerald with vessels of gold and platters of jasper.

  3. Flat platters or dishes require very careful drying to prevent buckling and should be reversed on a piece of sanded glass.

  4. In factories these things are complicated and go by power, but in a studio where the output of platters and dishes is likely to be limited something simple will do.

  5. And when they had ended, and were not satisfied, they ate their platters also, not thinking what they did.

  6. Now it so chanced that AEneas and Iuelus his son, and others of the princes, sat down to eat under a tree; and they had platters of dough whereupon to eat their meat.

  7. Great platters of bread, venison, and wild fowl were spread before him, "but not any one would eat with him.

  8. These ceremonies concluded, platters containing food were served of which we may well believe he partook with an anxious heart.

  9. Benjamin, another son, was to receive four pewter platters and two silver spoons, and Mary, a daughter, received the same number as did Joseph.

  10. In 1643, Joseph, the eldest son of Robert Massey of Ipswich, was bequeathed by his father, four pewter platters and one silver spoon.

  11. In 1640, Bethia Cartwright of Salem bequeathed to her sister, Mary Norton, three pewter platters and a double saltcellar and to a nephew she gave six spoons and a porringer.

  12. She could beat out chains and necklaces, rings of antique patterns, beautiful platters with enameled centers with all the skill of a real silversmith.

  13. Oh, there are chains, necklaces, platters and bowls, and a lot of ivory things I have picked up in Europe that must be carefully washed.

  14. The third thing they tell of, is the exchange of vessell, as of treene platters into pewter, and wodden spoones into siluer or tin.

  15. In the centre of the hall, also, was a table prepared as though for feasters, for amid jewelled cups and platters stood the meats and wines which day by day were brought afresh by the Virgins of the Sun.

  16. Also he shaped other things, for his skill as a goldsmith was wonderful, such as cups and platters of strange design and rich ornamentation which commanded a great price.

  17. This food, I noted, was served to me on platters of gold and silver, and the cups also were of gold strangely fashioned, by which I knew that I had come to a very rich land.

  18. My "dish" of then may have included some platters as well as bowls.

  19. I did not purchase any of these, nor any small platters or handled jugs or cups, which were sometimes also offered.

  20. The third thing they tell of is the exchange of vessel, as of treen platters into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin.

  21. The exchange of vessell, as of treene[46] platters into pewter, and woodden spoones into siluer or tin.

  22. Moreover the emperor went on to utter a vow, saying: "I will now make Ame in the eighty platters without using water.

  23. It were now good to take clay from the heavenly mount Kagu and therewith to make heavenly platters with which to sacrifice to the gods of the heavenly shrines and of the earthly shrines.

  24. It is harder than you would think when you read about it, to make huge platters with clay.

  25. Alice said, "and we can give the huge platters to poor cottagers who are short of the usual sorts of crockery.

  26. So he was not wholly displeased when Denny said, as he lay kicking into the bank when the things to eat were all gone: "I believe this is clay: did you ever make huge platters and bowls out of clay and dry them in the sun?

  27. To these, wooden platters and armadillo shells, to serve broth in, are sometimes added.

  28. The chief's three wives presided at the fires, and wooden platters loaded with large portions of meat and a due allowance of fat were handed round for the first course.

  29. Wooden platters are sometimes made, for containing meat or grease; and I have seen wooden or horn spoons constructed, but these articles are rare.

  30. The salad bowl is set on one side, the platters of sandwiches, etc.

  31. I have no doubt of it's elegance and usefullness in hair Combs, and might probably answer as maney valuable purpoces to civilized man, as it does to the native indians, who form their water Cups, Spoons and platters of it.

  32. Skillutes, and that he had subsisted since he left me on a couple of platters of pounded roots and fish which an old man had the politeness to offer him.

  33. Dogs on which the party dined- whilst I remained at the Enesher Village I Subsisted on 2 platters of roots, Some pounded fish and Sun flour Seed pounded which an old man had the politeness to give me.

  34. I have no doubt but it would eligant and ucefull hair combs, and might probably answer as many valuable purposes to civilized man, as it dose to the savages, who form their watercups spoons and platters of it.

  35. There they are, flinging their money into these platters just because these children come in procession to announce to them that it is the month of May, as though they could not know it by looking in an almanac.

  36. I saw the gypsy man playing, Biaise and Hugo sitting with wine mugs before them, aid Godeau by the fire asleep, the gypsy girl with her head on the table, she also asleep, and Marianne removing platters from the table.

  37. They usually ate in this hall, receiving their food on platters from the cook (happily the kitchen had remained fit for use), and bearing it thither.

  38. On they came, the girls with the platters walking ahead.

  39. They were preceded as before by women who bore food on platters and in baskets.

  40. He saw several men enter the cell through the room's single door, and place huge platters of meat on the several long tables near one wall.

  41. Lowering his weight onto one of the three-legged stools, Tharn dipped into one of the great platters a neighbor had pushed toward him.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "platters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.