He proposed to fix the
plate within two hundred yards of the gun.
From The Earth To The Moon
In one well-marked instance, I put the comb back into the hive, and allowed the bees to go on working for a short time, and again examined the cell, and I found that the rhombic
plate had been completed, and had become perfectly flat: it was absolutely impossible, from the extreme thinness of the little rhombic
plate, that they could have effected this by gnawing away the convex side; and I suspect that the bees in such cases stand in the opposed cells and push and bend the ductile and warm wax (which as I have tried is easily done) into its proper intermediate plane, and thus flatten it.
The Origin of Species
All HE'S got to do is to write on the
plate and throw it out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The excellent drawing-room furniture by the best makers; the rare and famous wines selected, regardless of cost, and with the well-known taste of the purchaser; the rich and complete set of family
plate had been sold on the previous days.
Vanity Fair
I was a great way out of the hurry now, and so I went on, clear of anybody's inquiry, and brought the bundle of plate, which was very considerable, straight home, and gave it to my old governess.
It is with horror that I tell what a treasure I found there; 'tis enough to say, that besides most of the family plate, which was considerable, I found a gold chain, an old-fashioned thing, the locket of which was broken, so that I suppose it had not been used some years, but the gold was not the worse for that; also a little box of burying-rings, the lady's wedding-ring, and some broken bits of old lockets of gold, a gold watch, and a purse with about
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
By the by, I was forgetting the silver plate. What is the value of that which I have?"
Faucheux, you will take away with you both the gold and silver plate. I can assign, as a pretext, that I wish it remodelled on patterns more in accordance with my own taste.
Ten Years Later
"That
plate - the prisoner has written something on it, has he not?"
The Man in the Iron Mask
Polly was flustered, and she thought 'Erb a regular caution, you never knew what ideas 'e'd get in 'is 'ead next; but she got a
plate and wiped it quickly with her apron, then took a new knife and fork from the chest of drawers, where her best cutlery rested among her best clothes.
Of Human Bondage
He told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy, who had changed him into a frog; and that he had been fated so to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring, and let him eat from her
plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
Fairy Tales
Certain big, heavy vehicles, built on the model of the Podsnap
plate, took away the heavy articles of guests weighing ever so much; and the less valuable articles got away after their various manners; and the Podsnap
plate was put to bed.
Our Mutual Friend
Just as a photographic
plate receives a different impression of a cluster of stars when a telescope is part of the intervening medium, so a brain receives a different impression when an eye and an optic nerve are part of the intervening medium.
The Analysis of Mind
'Can't you say who won the Helter-Skelter
Plate when you're asked the question civilly?'
The Old Curiosity Shop
She was idly arranging her little morsels of ham in a pattern on her
plate. Launcelot Linzie, still more idly, was looking at the pattern.
Miss or Mrs