salver

Three new biographies underline the premise that life can be tough, even for those who have it handed to them on a silver salver.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2018

These he would pick up from their silver salver and pull on over his long white fingers.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015

He looked around, called upon David Moyes, and together they held up the silver salver.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2013

The "quiet Beatle" — the one who told an interviewer, "I'm even more normal than normal people" — was also the nicest Beatle: the most thoughtful and generous, the salver of wounds, forgiver of sins.

From Time ● Oct. 5, 2011

Then men came bearing a chair and a low stool, and one brought a salver with a silver flagon and cups, and white cakes.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Other items included tea services, candlesticks, salvers and presentation pieces.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

We can't bear to admit defeat, because to do so is to make life seem more finite, less likely to be peopled with attractive strangers bearing silver salvers heaped with onion puffs.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2011

We can’t bear to admit defeat, because to do so is to make life seem more finite, less likely to be peopled with attractive strangers bearing silver salvers heaped with onion puffs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011

The purses were carried on large salvers by Yeoman Warders from the Tower of London.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2010

Some of his drawings of plate—coffee-pots, chocolate-mills, ewers, salvers, water-vessels—are exquisite for their instinctive sense of graceful curve and unerring precision of contour.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo