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Example sentences for "silver plate"

  • And to impress me with the idea that the mistress could do without slaves, she told me about the trunk of money and chest of silver plate; but I had no more idea of its being confiscated than had Aunt Peggy in her appeal.

  • Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in a ship, while the bride made the journey by land in ten days.

  • He has the whole cupboard full of silver plate, which he keeps locked up in secret drawers.

  • Then there were four hundred wagons of silver plate, and twenty wagons of gold plate, and eight hundred of perfumes and spices.

  • For a thousand slaves belonging to Dionysius the secretary and amanuensis of the king joined in the procession, each carrying articles of silver plate, of which there was not one weighing less than a thousand drachmæ.

  • The potter found earthenware, covered with a fine platinum glaze, was a colourable imitation of silver plate.

  • All was intact, silver plate, jewels, and fifty millions of francs in gold, enclosed in a well over which he had caused a tower to be built.

  • Kursheed, to whom it was presented on a large dish of silver plate, rose to receive it, bowed three times before it, and respectfully kissed the beard, expressing aloud his wish that he himself might deserve a similar end.

  • Mr. Paynton Pigott, Chief Constable of Norfolk, was presented by the officers and men of the County Constabulary with a gift of silver plate on the occasion of the seventeenth anniversary of his election to the office.

  • Gilman was presented by the district managers and inspectors of the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association with a piece of silver plate weighing 150 ozs.

  • He states that, instead of a silver plate, the mysterious prisoner used a white shirt, covered from one end to the other with the written history of his life.

  • A waiting-maid had just presented the card of a visitor on a silver plate.

  • One day the Iron Mask threw a silver plate out of the window into the water-course beneath.

  • In the same trunk were found several articles of silver plate, which proved to have been Mr. Bird's property.

  • For being found possessed of more than ten pounds of silver plate, contrary to the law, he was for this reason put out of the senate.

  • They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being cast; but upon; each post; ever tasted; falling bodies; keeping close; left none; like bracts; lovely lady; many individuals; not able; reasonable profit; silver certificates; silver chloride; silver coinage; silver dollar; silver fork; silver gilt; silver money; silver ores; silver penny; silver plate; silver watch; thus described; vague feeling; wild fruit