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Usage examples of spooning.

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.

He took a very close smot at me but then went back to being like kind and cheerful and spooning up the old eggiweg.

Excellent, he lied, reaching for the sugar bowl and spooning several heaped tea-spoonfuls of what he fervently hoped was demerara sugar into his cup.

She grabbed another small plate and started spooning the sauces on it, then handed it to Murray.

Rydell said, nodding in the direction of the carport and spooning cornflakes into his mouth.

He reached for his plate, spooning beans into his mouth and gazing up at the slopes where the elephants had disappeared.

I went down to find Margaret with two forks in a great piece of roasting ham, and Mrs Cakebread spooning honey on it.

But even now, even when he regretted the past most passionately, the memory of Arthur, spooning stew into his mouth at the kitchen table with the encrusted sauce bottle and the curded milk bottle on guard before him, made Rawlinson twitch with distaste.

Test for doneness by spooning up a small section of the middle of the topping.

I was spooning cookie batter onto a baking sheet when I heard this sound behind me, an odd little chirrup, and then something like a sigh, and when I turned, there was a monkey sitting right on this table.

Fran made him get her a Banana Boat Supreme and she sat against her door, two feet of seat between them, spooning up nuts and pineapple sauce and ersatz Dairy Queen ice cream.

The camp movie house, a few stray pines, the inevitable mess hall, and the whole enclosed in old wire, enriched by new wire: Matern, whom an English anti-fascist camp had spewed out, is spooning up barley grits behind the new barbed wire surrounding a discharge camp.

Charles continued, spooning up the last fragment of potato in thick beef stock, &quot.

Charles continued, spooning up the last fragment of potato in thick beef stock, “.

Hutton brought a brisk sawbones who peered and prodded at my stitches, dosed me with jalup, refused my demand for brandy to take away the taste, but agreed that I might have a rump steak instead of the beef tea which they'd been spooning into me in my unconscious state.