Pretty Lucille Arral was gazing forlornly at the strip of breakfast bacon and the tinned mashed potatoes on her plate when Slavovitch placed before her two shirred eggs.
Another picture: Slavovitch himself bringing two shirred eggs to me and saying, 'Compliments of Mr. Wild Water, Miss.
The lighting fixtures are of carved wood, painted in soft colors to match the garlands on the furniture, with shirred shades of lavender silk.
Two lamps made of quaint old green jars with lavender decorations have shirred shades of the same silk.
There is also a small table holding an electric reading-lamp, made of a Chinese jar, with a shade of shirred silk.
The small candle shades, the shirred shade of the drop-light, and the cushion of the black lacquer chair are also of this blue.
Above the day bed there is a portrait of a lady, hung by wires covered with shirred blue ribbons, and this blue is again used in an old porcelain lamp jar on the bedside table.
Half curtains of white muslin areshirred on the sashes back of the dressing-table.
This lamp, like the one in the drawing-room, is made from a porcelain vase, with a shirred silk shade on a wire frame.
A carpet of rose color was chosen, and the skylight was curtained with shirred silk of the same rose.
She wore green and white, with plum-coloured ribbons, and a flat shirred cap tied under her chin.
She stood by the folded piles of shirred muslin, the elaborate velvets and silks and ribbons, obviously at a loss before such an unparalleled choice; and he was once more disturbed by the attenuation of her small body.
For Shirred Eggs proceed as above, but to cook, place in a pan of hot water on the back of the stove, until the white is set.
They were all shirred down about two inches below the waist; some of them trimmed down the sides at the back with lace or velvet, but none of them on the bottom.
The poorer ones wore shirred sunbonnets on their heads, made of calico, coming out like an old poke-bonnet in front, and with full capes which set out at a fly-away angle behind.
What is the matter with her Dunstable straw, and what’s become of that one trimmed with blue lutestrings, and where’s the shirred silk one she wore last Sunday?
How thankful I was that I had put on my blue organdie and my shirred hat!
I put on my best pale blue shirred silk hat and my blue organdie dress and my high-heeled slippers.
Shirred and served with chicken livers and mushrooms; said of eggs.
Shirred and served with broiled kidney and truffle sauce; said of eggs.
Said of shirred eggs served with a slice of paté de fois gras upon each egg.
Then place the liver in a buttered shirred egg dish, break eggs on top, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the eggs are done.
Take four individual shirred egg dishes and put a teaspoonful of butter in each.
Crack two eggs on a buttered shirred egg dish, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with fresh-chopped parsley, and bake in oven for three minutes.
Peel and slice some boiled sweet potatoes and put in buttered shirredegg dishes, or pie plates.
She shirred and sewed together a piece of cloth about three yards around.
When you shirred them you would hold them over the first and third finger passing under the second finger.
On a willow stump emerging from the pond he found Hennessy, as wrinkled as a butternut, with a thatch of gray hair, a mouth shirred into a small, open ellipse, and eyes full of irrepressible twinkles.
When Hennessy heard of it he shirred his mouth into a pucker and whistled ecstatically.
Sheila saw him coming, his lips shirred to the closeness of some emotional strain.
He shirred his lips into an ecstatic pucker and whistled triumphantly.
For this she gets "a drab silk bonnet shirred inside with pink, and her blue lawn and her brown silk made over, half low-necked.
They are shirred with an inch heading on rods fastened outside of the window casing over which they extend, and care must be taken, if the pattern is prominent, that corresponding figures hang opposite each other.
They are sill length, shirred to a small brass rod set inside the casing, and draped if the over curtain hangs straight, to maintain a balance.
The portiere is either shirred over the pole or hung from it by hook safety pins or rings sewed on at intervals of four inches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shirred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baked; barbecued; coddled; curried; fired; fried; heated; parboiled; roast; scalloped; seared; stewed
