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Example sentences for "porringer"

Lexicographically close words:
porpoise; porpoises; porque; porridge; porrigit; porringers; porro; port; portability; portable
  1. To do well, the Broth is rather to be drunk out of a Porringer then to be eaten with a spoon, though you add some smal slices of bread to it, you wil like it the worse.

  2. She was in her high-chair by a window overlooking a gray sea, and with a bib under her chin, was being fed dripping spoonfuls of bread and milk from the silver porringer which rested on the sill.

  3. She picked up the silver porringer from the floor and told her to look at the pretty bowl.

  4. She remembered the old silver porringer with its tall, slim-looped letters.

  5. The solemn tone clutched her attention as firmly as the hand which held her, and somehow, before she was set free, she was made to feel that because of that old porringer she was obliged to be a little lady.

  6. The porringer was in Mrs. Triplett's hand when she leaned over the hamper to ask the question.

  7. Rose fell a musing with a happy smile on her face, while baby picked the last morsels out of the porringer with her own busy fingers.

  8. Rose, proudly displaying the work of her hands, as she came in with her habit pinned up, and carrying a silver porringer of bread and milk.

  9. A small sauce-pan or porringer should be kept for boiling starch, and used for nothing else.

  10. Lay it in a porringer or bowl, sprinkle it with salt, and pour upon it two or three gills of boiling water; then cut it into small pieces, as it lies in the water.

  11. Accordingly he bade him set the porringer amiddlemost the table and ate of it his sufficiency, whilst the Fellah filled his belly with those rich meats.

  12. So they brought him and his porringer of lentils before Ma'aruf, who said to him, "What is this?

  13. Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate, i.

  14. Thereupon the peasant took the porringer full of gold and returned to the village, driving the bulls before him and deeming himself akin to the King.

  15. When it was the Nine Hundred and Thirty-third Night, She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Abu Sir returned to Abu Kir he saw that he had eaten all that was in the porringer and had thrown it aside empty.

  16. Rose, proudly displaying the work of her hands as she came in with her habit pinned up and carrying a silver porringer of bread and milk.

  17. And Rose fell a-musing with a happy smile on her face while baby picked the last morsels out of the porringer with her own busy fingers.

  18. By this, said Epistemon, you may guess what kind of a pope it was who first enjoined it to be kept, since this filthy wooden-shoed Semiquaver owns that his spoon is never oftener nor deeper in the porringer of lechery than in Lent.

  19. Nor at that of Fabius the Roman praetor, who was choked with a single goat's hair as he was supping up a porringer of milk.

  20. She bore in her hands a coarse brown porringer filled with steaming viands, a lump of dark homely bread, and a white cloth.

  21. After placing the porringer and bread upon a spare corner of the sculptor's working bench, Magdalena moved gently behind the young man's chair, and having asked respectfully his pardon, looked over his shoulder.

  22. Daniel, meanwhile, had attacked his porringer of clams, and in his excitement over the journey was gobbling at a fearful rate.

  23. The clams were still simmering gently in the pot, and she gave them each a porringer of broth, which they ate sitting in a circle about the hearth-stone.

  24. The loss of a richly freighted ship could not have more seriously affected a prosperous merchant, than did that overturned porringer of bread and milk to this poor, simple child.

  25. His porringer of bread and milk, his wooden horse and tin soldiers, with now and then a run in the fields to gather flowers, made up his whole round of enjoyment.

  26. I ain't holding out my porringer to Power--never again!

  27. But while he extended that in one hand, he held out his little political porringer in the other.

  28. MAIRE BRUIN opens it and then goes to the dresser and fills a porringer with milk and hands it through the door and takes it back empty and closes the door.

  29. A little queer old woman cloaked in green Who came to beg a porringer of milk.

  30. The peculiar knock--four strokes in all--sounded upon the door, and Porringer went to it.

  31. You and Porringer are to go to Godwyn's after that new sail for the Nancy.

  32. I hold your life in my hands, for I heard you last night in the marsh, and Porringer and I saw you stealing from the creek this morning, and I can swear that you knew of the gold hidden in the hut.

  33. I know: Porringer told me you were prevented.

  34. Porringer closed his book and restored it to his bosom.

  35. He found Porringer seated in their boat, patiently awaiting him.

  36. Porringer sent a low halloo across the water, but if the man heard he made no sign.

  37. Leaving Landless near the door, Win-Grace Porringer dragged a keg to the side of the settle, and sitting down upon it, approached his death mask of a face close to the face of the mender of nets, and commenced a whispered conversation.

  38. Win-Grace Porringer pulled him down with a muttered, "Curse you for a fool!

  39. Porringer stared, but fell in with the humor of his companion, and the shallop, impelled by strong arms, shot into the creek and along its mazy windings with the swiftness of a bird.

  40. They rowed in silence until they neared the wharf, when Porringer said, "You are leader now.

  41. So close were the banks of wet, black earth, that they heard the crabs scuttling down them, and Porringer made a jab with his pole at a great sheepshead lying perdu alongside.

  42. When, late at night, he and Porringer crept stealthily back to the quarters, it was with the conviction that this was the last time they should so steal through the darkness.

  43. The shaven head and fleshless face of Win-Grace Porringer protruded themselves over Landless's shoulder.

  44. The boat had wound its tortuous way for many minutes before Porringer said in a low voice: "We can speak safely now.

  45. He was next offered a porringer of soup, consisting chiefly of oil, with a dozen lentils floating on the top; and having consumed it, was rowed off to be introduced to his new companions.

  46. We plunged our porringer into the pot, but it was only by the most laudable efforts that we could get down this green stuff, which gave us the idea of half masticated grass.


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