| 单词 | silver-plate |
| 例句 | Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.” T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z There would be mismatched antique silver-plate utensils in the kitchen drawers, and the beds would be dressed in neutral-color linens from West Elm and Pine Cone Hill. The Home Designers Who Actually Move In 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Products at the full-service jewelry store include: engagement and wedding rings; silver-plate gift items; gold, silver, and platinum jewelry, religious jewelry; and watches that are specific to the Pellegrini name. Jewelry store among Connecticut town’s oldest shops 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It is to plain William Hogarth, the son of the Cumberland schoolmaster, the apprentice of the silver-plate engraver, Ellis Gamble, that we owe the origin of the English school of painting. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z His desires, however, were not limited to silver-plate engraving. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z French captains found it profitable to barter not only for hides and meat with the Buccaneers, but with the Flibustiers for silver-plate and pieces of eight. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z He was, according to the American custom, deposited in a mahogany coffin, with his name and age engraved on a silver-plate, put on the coffin. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z We forge the nickel for the pivot and capstan, and we silver-plate it ourselves. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z A knight led them, distinguishable from afar, for he wore silver-plate armor, and sat on a white horse. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z He glanced disdainfully at the old mahogany counter, the soiled napkins, the dingy silver-plate, and the hats hanging up on the wall. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z A large quantity of silver-plate and goldsmiths’ work of great value and considerable artistic elaboration was found in 1874 in the king’s palace at Kumasi, not the least remarkable objects being masks of beaten gold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" In the large entrance hall, which was finished in old German style, a young matron stood before a magnificent buffet, busied in taking out all manner of silver-plate from the open cupboard. Gertrude's Marriage The original silver-plate communion-set and the baptismal fount have been preserved and are used as occasion allows. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Adown the table are specimens of silver-plate, some the work of her own craftsmen, others the offerings of friendship or of courtesy. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens And on its oval silver-plate I read her name and age and date, And smiled, soft-thinking on my hate. The Garden of Dreams From every State came gifts of money, silver-plate, fine china, sofa cushions, books, pictures, exquisite jewelry, lace, chatelaine bags and every token which loving hearts could devise. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV "The first requisite," he maintains, "of a good piece of silver-plate is that it be well built." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 He ordered all the silver-plate belonging to his table to be weighed, and to be distributed if his standard silver fell short.... The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland And how came it that all this silver-plate had found its way into my pockets? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 It seems that on one of the lines—I forget which—a large box full of silver-plate was despatched. The Iron Horse The globules of air, clinging to the body-hairs, appear to silver-plate them; and they can remain below indefinitely, breathing through spiracles. Police!!! Gems, marble, ivory, Tuscan statues, pictures, silver-plate, robes dyed with Getulian purple, there are who can not acquire; and there are others, who are not solicitous of acquiring. The Works of Horace On the lid of the box was a silver-plate engraving. James Fenimore Cooper The limousine, its varnish and silver-plate flashing in the bright spring sun, stood by the curb, purring softly to itself with all six cylinders, a thing of matchless beauty and rare cost. The Air Trust They're all Protestants too—every man and boy among 'em: and Protestants are very fond of spoons, I find, and silver-plate in general, whenever area-gates is left open accidentally. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Here the old man was employed busily in the doubtful task of burnishing a pewter flagon until it should take the hue and semblance of silver-plate. The Bride of Lammermoor One of the great objects of social ambition was to have a heavier service of silver-plate than was possessed by any of one's neighbours. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate It holds them still, though they are not the silver-plate, the round watches, the narrow laces, and the precious camel's-hair scarf. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Now, in Corsica, people are not murdered, as they are in France, by the first escaped convict who can devise no better means of relieving a man of his silver-plate. Colomba Coudert, of the Municipal Council, shoemaker, charged with the duty of taking silver-plate from the accused, did not know how, or was unwilling, to draw up any other than an irregular and valueless proc�s-verbal. The French Revolution - Volume 3 He even had his name engraved on the silver-plate, leaving a blank after the word "Died." The Story of a Bad Boy In one of the parlors of the Warner House there is a choice store of family relics—china, silver-plate, costumes, old clocks, and the like. An Old Town By the Sea The three thousand francs were gone, with the silver-plate and the trinkets. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The room itself was crammed with furniture, and silver-plate, and lamps, and vases, and pictures; there were books, and curiosities, and fine engravings lying rolled up, unframed. Gobseck Foragers fly far; the villages of the North-East are harried; your Hessian forager has only 'three sous a day:' the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate,—by way of revenge. The French Revolution Again, Gobseck had refused free delivery of his silver-plate, and declined to guarantee the weights of his coffees. Gobseck |
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