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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Well, the pudding moment arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from sight the plate before us.
He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")
We sat down pell-mell, anywhere, I next to Liszt, who kept putting things on my plate.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
He silenced her with a gesture, and, leaving a piece of toast half-eaten on his plate, he got up and went into his study.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
The prizes were plate, and the profits were to be expended in repairing the havens of the kingdom.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
Her black eyelashes were long, and under their protecting shadow she swept a glance at the card above the young man's plate.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
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