He had scarcely flipped on the system when the woman who managed his kitchen appeared, bowing, and deposited a tray bearing miso broth, rice, an uncooked egg, and more tea.
Thank you, Mrs. Pearce," said the man, as she laid down her tray on the table.
Humphrey had picked up the man's tray and tin cups and given them to Vivi.
She carried a tray from which dangled a row of tin cups, and on the top of which was balanced a tall pewter jug.
When she reached the gallery she put the tray down on the floor in front of a door which faced her.
Vivi looked about her and then, putting her tray down, began to dance and sing: "Dansons la Carmagnole, Vive le son du canon!
As she put the tray down on the floor and turned away some one called to her.
She waited until there was a lull in the demand for licorice water, then quietly slipped over to a corner and ducked her head from under the leather strap which held the tray about her neck.
She wanted to put her tray down somewhere so that she could slip away more easily at the right moment.
When Fardou called her, she picked up her trayand came inside the gates, making a bow to the guard, who bowed mockingly in return.
Marie had put her tray with its jug of licorice water and its jangling cups on the floor beside her.
After she had bolted the door, the woman crossed the room, and, putting the tray down on the window sill beside her prisoner, surveyed him, her hands on her hips.
Pick some flowers and come right back," answered Vivi, hitching up the tray which was held about her neck by a leather strap.
He was a licorice water seller by profession and all that he had left Vivi of worldly goods was his tin tray and the cups dangling from it.
Humphrey eyed the pile of puffy brioche set out on a tray next to a gleaming pile of fruit confits, and he wondered what to buy for Vivi.
Five minutes more, and he appeared, bearing a tray with the breakfast, just thirty-five minutes after the order had been given for it.
A woman in a black dress and black shawl brought in a tray holding a decanter of vodka, a dish of sausages and a dish of caviar.
A minute or two passed, the door of the maids' room banged, and Yevpraksia appeared at the other end of the corridor, carrying a tray with a butter-cake to be served with the tea.
There the cabbage soup was already steaming and on a wooden tray on the sideboard lay a great chunk of beef, which Ivan Mikhailych was just then engaged in carving.
Anninka wanted to rise and take leave, but a new tray appeared on the table, with two dishes on it, one of mushrooms, the other with bits of caviar, and a bottle of Madeira.
He hurried away then, laughing his shrillest key, and Annabel laid the pink chiffon back in the tray to follow him to the door.
The boy had taken away the breakfast tray and had left a box on the table.
Grace looked appealingly at Miss Delmege, but the pince-nez were directed towards the roof, and Miss Delmege's elegantly curved fingers were engaged in swiftly unloading a tray of clean plates.
It cannot be denied that Miss Vivian flung an agonized thought to the memory of the admirably furnished breakfast-tray provided for her each morning by the agency of the invaluable Preston at Plessing.
So little Mrs. Bullivant staggered up from the basement bearing a tray that seemed very large and heavy, and put it on the table in the sitting-room, very close to the fire, with a triumphant gasp.
She did not wish to be further delayed with the heavy tray on her hands.
I can't tell you the hours I've stood outside Claridge's carrying a tray and seeing insolent wretches walk past me without buying.
Miss Marsh, recklessly tipping all the dirty crockery from the tray on to the counter.
When he returned he had a well-worn pewter tray in hand upon which he had arranged with careful exactness four chunks of cold suppawn and four tin cups of buttermilk.
When she brought a tray of food and knelt in front of him he bent over and kissed her passionately.
She set the trayon the bed and Orville blinked at it.
Before Suzanne yanked out the lamp plug, she encouraged him to see her nakedness: she placed the food tray on the wash stand; she combed her hair before the bureau mirror: she shook her hair over her shoulders.
He clapped his hands, whereupon one of his young cousins entered with a tray of nacre, supporting an opium-lamp, pipes and needles and bowls, and horn and ivory boxes neatly arranged.
He tore up the paper, burned the fragments in his large ash tray and washed the delicate ashes down his stationary washbowl.
He had produced, as I remember well, a tray of antique cameos, and to make room for it upon the counter brushed aside a litter of disordered papers.
I must have remained standing there before the door nearly a minute, though it seemed much less, for, when I turned, Nathan was at my elbow again, holding in his hand a tray of cups.
The conversation was checked as Mrs. Gallup came from the kitchen with a tray of sandwiches and a tall pitcher of fruit juice.
Events had moved with such rapidity that until Mrs. Gallup brought a tray of steaming food from the kitchen and set it before her, Penny had not realized how very hungry she was.
He bore a silver traywith a hook-nosed coffee-pot of chased metal.
He placed the tray on the table at his master's side, and was about to withdraw when the other stayed him with raised hand.
On the tray stood also a small cup having no handle; a dish of dates; a few wafers made of the Arabian cereal called temmin; and a little bowl of khat leaves.
They ben false, they ben vengeable, 805 And begylen men in Christes name; They ben unstedfast and unstable; To tray hir lord, hem thinketh no shame.
And at last his lord gan tray Cursedly, through his covetyse; So wolde these trayen him for money, And they wisten in what wyse!
Over one of these fires is placed a flat perforated tray of metal on which small pieces of very dry sandal-wood are made to ignite by the mere action of the heat, but must not actually come in contact with the flame below.
A small tray is now brought in with tiny little gold coins (silver if the people are poor) mixed with sweets.
After the usual compliments dinner was brought in by a long row of attendants, who carried tray after tray full of delicacies, part of which they deposited on the table, the rest on the floor.
There are plenty of men in it, in green or brown or blue long coats, and all squatting lazily, cross-legged, sipping tea from tiny glasses and being helped to sugar from a large tray containing a mountain of it.
The walnuts as soon as peeled from their skin are thrown into a large basin full of water, and when properly washed are spread on the tray to dry, ready for consumption.
The Hindoos were very civil and entertained us to tea, water melon, and a huge tray of sweets, while a crowd outside gazed at the unusual sight of Europeans visiting the caravanserais.
Dave retired, and soon brought in a trayfrom the galley, the dishes from which he arranged on the table.
Loading up his tray with dishes, he carried them through the steerage to the galley, where he found Mulgrum engaged in washing those from the ward room, which he had brought out some time before.
The first thing you do is to see if it is running steadily at the desired temperature before filling it with eggs; then you must fill the whole tray at one time and not add fresh eggs to a tray after it's once started.
The plumber said he could manage this by putting in a galvanized iron tray on the floor under the shower and connecting it to the waste pipes.
Next year we're going to cut the ice in twenty-two by twenty-two-inch sizes.
The eggs must be turned twice daily after the second and until the nineteenth day.
Everything on Brookside is going to be run by power and every person on the farm will be multiplied by two or five before Bob and his Aunt Bettie get through, and besides it won't be such hard work.
Eppie couldna bear the very sicht o' the tray after that, an' she telt me to break it up; but I keepit it, ye see.
The tray was keepit against the kitchen wall near the mester, an' he played on't wi' his foot.
Having delivered his message as instructed, Johnny consented to sit down until the famous christening robe and the tray were ready, but he would not talk, for that was not in the bond.
I said I had been trying to think what the tray had to do with it.
The tea-things stood on a tray in the kitchen bed, whence they could be quickly brought into the room, just as if they were always ready to be used daily.
Along this line she argued with herself while she ordered a tray to be sent up as soon as Doctor Martin arrived.
David pushed the tray away and leaned luxuriously back in his chair.
The rubber was fairly rapid, but before the end of it a footman had appeared with the bed-time tray of soda and whisky and lemons, followed by another man with bedroom candles.
During this she was collecting the crockery on a tray, with which tray she whizzed out of the room.
With an old table and the tray out of a travelling-trunk, he arranged a substitute for an easel, and began to try to paint a bad picture from his sketch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tray" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dish; platter; receptacle
