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Usage examples of platter.

My mother had put out an antipasto platter, fresh bread from Peoples, and a pan of sausage-and-cheese lasagna.

Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.

But often during the long hot evenings, if Marcos were away for the night, Sabrina would visit the Gulab Mahal, and as the moon rose into the dusty twilight the women would sit out on the flat roofs of the zenana quarter looking out across the minarets and white roof-tops, the green trees and gilded cupolas of the evil, beautiful, fantastic city of Lucknow, while Aziza Begum cracked jokes and shook with silent laughter, stuffed her mouth with strange sweetmeats from a silver platter, or told long, long stories of her youth and of kings and princes and nobles of Oudh these many years in their graves.

The bespectacled bureaucrat immediately stood to help her with this platter heaped with all sorts of appetizing delicacies.

Zeehond door den langeren en platteren kop, het platter voorhoofd en den langwerpiger snuit, alsmede door den bouw der hand.

Why remember the family dinners of brisket, when his grandmother would bring out the aromatic platter, her face flushed, and set it on her crocheted tablecloth?

I persuaded a very terrified messenger to release the missive to me or else I would serve his head on a platter to my hounds.

There were no articles of furniture or, indeed, any contents except a narrow palliasse of straw, a jug and a wooden platter containing some cold porage.

Now spread them around on deep platters or enameled pans and cover with panes of window glass.

He was right beside the platters of pastrami and potato salad he was helping himself from.

Renald just wrapped a cloth around his waist as Maria, Prissy, and Josce hurried in with platters of food and jugs of ale.

He sat flanked by coffee pots, little dishes of apricot jam, platters of prosciutto and enough croissants to feed a small army.

Put the fish on a heat-proof serving platter, pour the sauce over it, decorate with the ginger and scallion shreds, and steam for 12 to 15 minutes or until the fish is just firm to the touch.

The Merging Selves were wandering from table to table with platters of beef and pork.

Kief tended greens and stock in the steaming soup kettle, while Narin worked at turning a platter of silverlings into spoon-sized chunks.