I sat some time watching these proceedings, and wondering how polite they were to each other; for, though there were a great many spoons to only one dish, they never got entangled.
Illustration: One young woman brought a great pan of stew and bread and three spoons to the van.
One young woman brought a great pan of stew and bread and three spoons to the van and set it on the upper step for the children.
Creeping like cats, they reached the pantry, and sure enough found more than a dozen silver spoons and forks of different sizes that had been recently used.
These they put into a small bag, and mephisto went back through the scullery into the back garden and hid thesespoons in a bush.
Pewter spoons bent and broke, and a substitute, at least in the Connecticut Valley, was a small clam-shell set in a cleft stick.
Possibly some of these splendid pieces of plate found their way to the altar, and the cups and spoons to the frater of the house, but the nuns undoubtedly sometimes kept them for private use in their own camerae.
Often single spoons were given, bearing the figure of the patron or name saint of the child.
The spoons were there in General Grant's time, but so much like brass or copper in appearance that one would hesitate about using them.
The foundation for the statement was the fact that there were spoons in the Executive Mansion that were plated or washed with gold on the inside of the bowls.
Patience's crocks, trenchers, and cups were gone too, all except one horn mug; but two knives and some spoons were extracted from the ashes.
And you may ax the father of sich children home to dinner, feelin werry sure there'll be no spoons missin' when he goes away.
I'm going up North to steal some spoonsand things for the Southern Army.
Spoons are laid on the table with the hollow of the bowl up, and forks with the ends of the tines up.
And she held out the key of the cupboard where the spoons were daily taken out by herself or Ida.
This wigwam isn't exactly the Palmer House, but it turns snow, and they won't search your grip for souvenir spoons when you leave.
Wooden spoons (jaⁿʇehe) were made of knobs or knots of trees.
If he cannot steal pint measures from a publican, he will have to invest a portion of his capital in Britannia-metal spoons at a shilling a dozen, and these he will break up and melt in an earthen pipkin, purchasable for another penny.
Any other punishment than that of death is incommensurate with the crime; and we cannot afford to place the sanctity of human life and the safety of our spoons under the same sanctions.
And as they marched in the wedding procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle, they licked their spoons and looked around and licked their spoons again.
They marched with big bowls of soup in front of them and big spoons for eating the soup.
Keep your salt-spoons out of the salt, and clean them often.
Three tea-spoons of powdered sage, one and a half of salt, and one of pepper, to a pound of meat, is good seasoning for sausages.
Then pour in boiling water, and stir it all the time, till you make it as thin as the yeast you buy; three or four table spoons heaping full are enough for a quart of water.
A hum of voices buzzed around the tables; the waiters rushed to and fro; spoons and forks clattered.
The spoons clinked against the plates and the marchesa smacked her lips.
I hae seen some very like them, and whaever has seen sillerspoons has done the same.
Sae are a' the spoonsin Argyle, an' the half o' them in Edinburgh I think.
Lay them by, lay them by, an' gie the poor woman her spoons again.
Then this Mustagan was the old Cree Indian who found the silver spoons and other remains of Sir John Franklin among the Eskimos.
These terrific wintry gales sometimes made the house tremble on its foundations, and occasionally so shook the building that pictures hung on the wall would swing, and spoons in a tumbler on the mantelpiece would perceptibly jingle.
Be kind enough to lay the spoons on the table," he said, "and give back the ten dollars Mrs. Cole handed you.
He has my spoons and I have just handed him ten dollars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cutlery; fork; knife; silver; silverware; spoon; tableware
