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Example sentences for "trencher"

Lexicographically close words:
trenails; trench; trenchant; trenchantly; trenched; trenchers; trenches; trenching; trend; trended
  1. The back part of the head is moulded by having an oval trencher sort of vessel, deeper than half the head, and generally made of plaster, and boiled in oil.

  2. The back of the head being oiled, and this trencher partially filled with liquid plaster of Paris, the head is lowered into it, and the cast taken.

  3. Seizing Buonespoir by the shoulders, he forced him down upon a bench at the table, and pushed the trencher of spiced meat against his chest.

  4. When they shook hands across the trencher of spiced veal, it was as man shakes hand with man, not man with master.

  5. Waken, and carry this trencher of beef to your brother.

  6. In that unhappy country, wasted by years of predatory war, hospitality could offer little more than a couch of straw, a trencher of meat half raw and half burned, and a draught of sour milk.

  7. The player who has taken the name of "dress" must get up from her seat and catch the trencher before it falls.

  8. If the trencher is caught, it is handed back and twirled again, and another name called out.

  9. He or she jumps up and tries to catch the whirling trencher before it falls.

  10. A young man lies flat, resting only on his toes at a certain mark at one extremity and on a trencher in each hand at the other.

  11. When this is said, every player has to get up and take another place before the trencher falls; the last one to get a place has to take the trencher, and if it is down, to pay a forfeit.

  12. Sticks they place in defferent positions which they perform under a kind of trencher made of bark round and about 14 inches diamieter.

  13. The Cathedral was resuming its usual voices on the Sunday morning, and when the early bell brought Wilmet from her room, she found Lance up and dressed, his little black gown on, and his trencher cap in his hand.

  14. In the places of public resort peers flirted with maids of honour; and officers of the Life Guards, all plumes and gold lace, jostled professors in trencher caps and black gowns.

  15. I was sent to deliver him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master; and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber, but he steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg.

  16. But there, on the trencher in your hand, is a nice little meal.

  17. But so soon as her hand found nothing more on the empty trencher the bright illusion vanished, and she looked with dismay into the empty oil-cup and at the place where just now the bread had been.

  18. The reproachful complaint is heard by the messenger outside the door, for the old woman who shoved in the trencher over the threshold answers quickly but not crossly.

  19. As soon as Klea was alone she seized the trencher with a vehement gesture, gave the roast bird to the gray cat, who had stolen back into the room, turning away her head, for the mere smell of the pheasant was like an insult.

  20. Thus pour on new Lead still as fast as it runs through the Trencher till all be done; blowing now and then the Coles with hand-Bellows, when the Lead in the Trencher cools so as to stop from running.

  21. But if you would have your Shot larger then the Trencher makes them, you may do it with a Stick, making them trickle out of the Ladle, as hath been said.

  22. The bottom of the Trencher being some four inches distant from the water in the Pail, lay upon it some burning Coles, to keep the Lead melted upon it.

  23. If the Trencher be but toucht a very little when the Lead stops from going through it, and be not too cool, it will drop again, but it it better not to touch it at all.

  24. The knight returned him thanks for his courtesy; and, this duty done, both resumed their seats by the table, whereon stood the trencher of pease placed between them.

  25. As children do by a bird or a butterfly in a string, pull in and let him out as they list, do they by their trencher chaplains, prescribe, command their wits, let in and out as to them it seems best.

  26. I have seen him do the somerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on the rope, which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.

  27. Then there was a huge pie of deer meat, with baked and fried fish in abundance, and lobsters so large that there was not a trencher bowl on the board big enough to hold a whole one.

  28. We have our ware of pewter and of copper, and our trencher bowls are of the best that can be hewn from maple knots.

  29. She supposed she would be able to keep pace with it when she got her books, but the mathematics, at any rate, were much more advanced than what she had before attempted.

  30. Perhaps by next summer we'll get one for cricket as well.

  31. Let them all walk and wait upon my brethren; for my meaning is, that none but shoemakers, none but the livery of my company shall in their satin hoods wait upon the trencher of my sovereign.

  32. There was nothing on the trencher but a pile of dust.

  33. Squire at last, "there used to be plenty of fine carp in Trencher Pond down the deep hole under the tree, but I did not know there were any left, for the dry summers killed them when the railway cutting was made and took off so much water.

  34. After breakfast Fred was all in a state of ferment to be off to Trencher Pond.

  35. Did I not see the very cask on't at Trencher Rob's?


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