porringer

How To Use porringer In A Sentence

• He loved his little porringer, which is to say that he ate a good deal; and he loved to read books, which is not to say that he loved study; he hated getting out of bed, and he was constantly gated for morning chapel. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
• Popular interest in collecting silver was immortalised by Bertie Wooster's antics with cow creamers and porringers.
• Once that was finished, I was to start putting the stew into the porringers and ring the meal bell.
• Now a rare silver porringer - a small dish for soup or porridge - inscribed with the words ‘The gift of Sir Thomas Herbert’ is coming up for sale at the London auction house on October 11.
• Eddy slurped up what remained of his stew and sent his porringer down the table.
• The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
• His conscience, like the unnest - porringer. ling of a parcel of young His desire, like six trusses of hay. herons. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
• The porringer in Plate VIII, one of only four known English examples with relief-cast gadrooned decoration, has even finer decoration.
• Accordingly he bade him set the porringer amiddlemost the table and ate of it his sufficiency, whilst the Fellah filled his belly with those rich meats. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night