What is "punchbowl"

Usage examples of "punchbowl".

On the table in the front room, he saw the big silver punchbowl the children had spoken of.

Cathy saw that her punchbowl, the only prize she had ever won in her life, was gone from the table.

She looked through the window, where normally you saw the little square table with its silver punchbowl and flowers.

Her punchbowl back on the table, a little Christmas tree in the window, their coloured box files filling up with more and more addresses, contacts, customers.

Jameson could see Liz Becque nestled against Omar, her arm around his thick waist, her post at the punchbowl deserted.

Olivia or Telemachus could question him, the old man waved the punchbowl ladle at them again and they found themselves blown from their chairs into a small room just off the parlor.

Cooke saw to it that he had a punchbowl all to himself in which to drink our healths: Judge Short was there, still followed by the conjugal eye: and Senator Trevor, who remained over, in a new long black coat to kiss the bride.

Finally she sobbed in frustration, hefted the punchbowl and carried it into the kitchen, and dumped the entire concoction out in the sink.

Let us wherefore, tearing ages, presently preposterose a snatchvote of thanksalot to the huskiest coaxing experimenter that ever gave his best hand into chancerisk, wishing him with his famblings no end of slow poison and a mighty broad venue for themselves between the devil's punchbowl and the deep angleseaboard, that they may gratefully turn a deaf ear clooshed upon the desperanto of willynully, their shareholders from Taaffe to Auliffe, that will curse them below par and mar with their descendants, shame, humbug ant profit, to greenmould upon mildew over jaundice as long as ever there's wagtail surtaxed to a testcase on enver a man.

In the cen­ter of the floor was a table supporting two cut-glass punchbowls, one vast and grand, the other smaller and plainer.

The tables are laden with punchbowls, wine bottles, fine crystal and delicacies of all kinds.

Suzette replied, steering him around the couples sitting out the dance and crowding to the punchbowls and buffets.