Mr Venus thus delivers hmself, his right hand extended, his smoking
saucer in his left hand, protesting as though he were going to burst into a flood of tears.
If I could only empty my
saucer and go to sleep, I shouldn't be thinking of the number of people in this world, like myself, who would be better out of it than in it.
In response, slowly, with utmost deliberation, as if the destiny of empires rested on the certitude of her act, she turned the
saucer of coffee upside down on the table.
She pronounced the tea to be excellent, and praised the exquisite taste in which the marmalade was arranged in the
saucers. And in determining to make everybody else happy, she found herself so; and was sound asleep in the great funereal pavilion, and only woke up with a smile when George arrived from the theatre.
"When you stops, you know," cries Phil, putting down his cup and
saucer and hastily removing his plate from his knees, "and says to me, 'What, comrade!
'Now,' said Mr Swiveller, putting two sixpences into a
saucer, and trimming the wretched candle, when the cards had been cut and dealt, 'those are the stakes.
If you go into the first room, you will see a great chest in the middle of the floor with a dog sitting upon it; he has eyes as large as
saucers, but you needn't trouble about him.
He was playing dominoes with a Frenchman, and greeted the new-comers with a quiet smile; he did not speak, but as if to make room for them pushed away the little pile of
saucers on the table which indicated the number of drinks he had already consumed.
She saw the door open into the other room; saw the supper-table, with its snowy cloth; heard the dreamy murmur of the singing tea-kettle; saw Ruth tripping backward and forward, with plates of cake and
saucers of preserves, and ever and anon stopping to put a cake into Harry's hand, or pat his head, or twine his long curls round her snowy fingers.
At each corner of the table stood
saucers, filled with a thick fluid of some what equivocal color and consistence, variegated with small dark lumps of a substance that resembled nothing but itself, which Remarkable termed her “sweetmeats.” At the side of each plate, which was placed bottom upward, with its knife and fork most accurately crossed above it, stood another, of smaller size, containing a motley- looking pie, composed of triangular slices of apple, mince, pump kin, cranberry, and custard so arranged as to form an entire whole, Decanters of brandy, rum, gin, and wine, with sundry pitchers of cider, beer, and one hissing vessel of “flip,” were put wherever an opening would admit of their introduction.
And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and
saucers inform us.
Her eyes were as big as
saucers. her face as red as my sash, and once I thought she was going to cry.
However, there was no help for it, and the tea-tray came, with seven cups and
saucers, and bread-and-butter on the same scale.
"He drank two full
saucers of cream," moaned Felicity, "and I saw him catch a mouse in the evening.
But I know they'll none of 'em take my chany," she added, turning toward the cups and
saucers, "for they all found fault with 'em when I bought 'em, 'cause o' the small gold sprig all over 'em, between the flowers.
