porringer

Why, this was moulded on a porringer; A velvet dish.

She mixed milk and poison within a porringer, serving it to Thomas for breakfast.

He dropped in this afternoon with the porringer he repaired for Papa.

But baby had no heart for play and, withdrawing her hand, pointed to the porringer with the suggestive remark: "Din-din, now.

Porringer, a small metallic dish.

Some collecters or materials historians also call what resembles the pewter porringer a "bleeding cup"

Bertie tries to set this aright by returning the porringer, but is caught, and hides the object in his bureau drawer.

'But,' showing a porringer with a Sunday dinner in it; 'here is a portion of mutton, and three potatoes.

She subsequently attempts to extort the money from Runkle by pinching his porringer, although that had proved to be a bust.

Or the oblongs and moons of crystal, as much a part of a bride's registry as the silver porringer nut dish.

Porringer, c. 1665-1670.

A second, modern usage, for the term porringer is a double saucepan similar to a bain-marie used for cooking porridge.

And Rose fell a-musing with a happy smile on her face while baby picked the last morsels out of the porringer with her own busy fingers.

"And often after sunset, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat my supper there.

She took her little porringer: Of me she shall not win renown: For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her down.

Dahlia, meanwhile, failing to convince Runkle to give Tuppy his due, has purloined the silver porringer he wished to sell to Tom.

"Beg, Frisk, beg," said little Harry, as he sat on an inverted basket, at his grandmother's door, eating, with great satisfaction, a porringer of bread and milk.

No one knows if the plates, cup and porringer inspired by the beloved book will last that long, but they are sunny to look at and are sweet without being cloying.

No jarring conversation pieces, though Timothy does lap his water from a sterling silver porringer that is an heirloom from Ms. Zabar's Manhattan babyhood.

There was a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a combustion in the state.

The nine-inch dessert plates, which come in a choice of six images, are $198 each, and the cup is $41 (both are shown at right); the porringer is also $41.

Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more--except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides.

"No more than I expect him to send our son a silver porringer as a naming-gift," said Rascard, "but these days have been too peaceful; I wonder what he is planning?"

She wears bonnets and rustling silk onesies, spoons her Pablum from a vintage silver porringer and exudes the soapy fragrance of Bulgari Petite Maman.

Back at Brinkley, Bingley (in Runkle's employ) discovers the purloined porringer in Bertie's drawer, and Runkle accuses Bertie of the crime.