Usually made of silver

Usage examples of salver.

As soon as general interest had become focussed upon Solly, Ramillies had turned in his chair like an unnoticed child with every intention of joining in the new conversation, but now a waiter appeared at his elbow with a card on a salver.

Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration.

The salver, vegetable dishes, servers and gravy boat on the sideboard were all electroplated nickel silver.

Stock Gilliflower are used by certain empiricks and quack salvers about love and lust,--matters which for modesty I omit.

All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.

Her ladyship rose to withdraw, and at that moment Leduc made his appearance with a salver, on which was a bowl of soup, a flask of Hock, and a letter.

There was also a loaf of hot bread, a platter of sausages smoking from the grill, a firkin of pickles, and a salver of sliced nutcake spread with cream cheese.

Before a curtain, over which the words Cafe Chantant were written in coloured lamps, two men were counting money on a salver.

Mario entered, bearing, one-handed and a few inches above his head, a rather splendid silver salver laden with bottles and glasses, which, in the circumstances, was no mean feat, as the San Andreas was rolling quite noticeably.

Henry Martin wouldn't have recognised a balance sheet if it had been handed to him on a silver salver.

The chests at her feet were loaded with a mass of jewelled trash--diamante anklets, gilt clasps, tiaras and chains of zircon, rhinestone necklaces and pendants, huge earrings of cultured pearl, overflowing from one chest to another and spilling onto the salvers placed on the floor like vessels to catch a quicksilver rainfall.

Hackworth, working in his study, assumed it was a mere delivery until she appeared in his doorway, harrumphing lightly, holding a salver with a single card centered on it: Lieutenant Chang.

Barry orated, "and she demanded, 'I wish for the head of John the Baptist on a silver salver!

Salvers held items of pastry, blends of creams and pastes, miniature figures of succulent crispness, oozing semi-liquid delights.

A gamey old hen, more rope than flesh, lay in a thin pepper sauce on one of the good salvers.