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Word: plated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bowdoin Orient is improving. In speaking of the last summers sensation at the White Mountains, the student waiter, it says: "He learns to hand a chair with quiet dignity, and to present a plate of soup with courtly grace; and at night, when the dishes have been washed, and the napkins all folded, he clothes himself in a broadcloth coat and joins the ladies in a social dance. His bearing throughout is one of modest independence and dignified humility. The ladies beam upon him, - it is a life of romance; the guests fee him, - it is a life of profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...conversation," so give up the fire, and study the food vocabulary in my manual. The only word which I can pronounce successfully is "Kjod," which means "meat." I ask carelessly for "Kjod." She says "Ja," and goes out, but soon returns and sets before me a large plate containing four different kinds of bread, - dark rye bread, light rye bread, Graham bread, and white bread. Pretend that this is what I ordered, and eat heartily. Have a variety at any rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed very much like a jail. Three or four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...called me here, one hauled me there; each handed me his plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper-plate engraving his occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. | 1/23/1873 | See Source »

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