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Meanings of porringer in English
Usage of porringer in English
1
A large porringer, filled with coffee-and-milk, was on one corner of it.
2
So it is by the hour-glass and the fortune told in the porringer.
3
He had not much trouble in finishing what was left in the porringer.
4
Galope-Chopine turned pale himself and dropped his porringer on the table.
5
A grin of brilliant and perfect comprehension overspread his porringer-like face.
6
She remembered the old silver porringer with its tall, slim-looped letters.
7
Every native used a porringer or vessel made of birch bark.
8
The piece thus becomes a bowl-shaped porringer, surrounded by a wide, flat edge.
9
It is ill-bred to stoop too close to one's porringer or the meat.
10
The porringer was more than empty; it was cleaned out.
11
There was always that old silver porringer, sitting prim and lady-like upon the sideboard.
12
The prisoner greedily seized the bread and the porringer.
13
So these boys ate out of the same porringer, and broke of the same bread.
14
There was a sort of porringer of farina, and some cakes of the same substance.
15
The pretty girl went upstairs, leaving Rene to finish his porringer of buckwheat in boiled milk.
16
Jagienka took an earthen porringer full of noodles and cheese, and placed it at the threshold.
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