Our plates were the kind with hot water inside, and a cork, and as the venerable man removed them for the next course I, watching, saw him wipe them perfunctorily with the corner of his already none too clean garment, then gravely hand them back.

"Mr. Orkins, I will; but I am grateful for your gettin' me off that job, and if a piece o' plate will be any good, I'll guarantee it's good old family stuff as'll fetch you a lot o' money some day.

The brass plate on the lid of the cartridge-box was a U.S. plate; the belt-buckle also was Federal; both plate and buckle had been turned upside down, so that each bore the inverted letters

The plate I cared not a fig for, but the museum specimens were a different matter; and he might damage them from sheer malice.

In the first apparatus of this kind which I used, the plate was simply a card of pasteboard, from which the machine took its name.

THE HOT-PLATE is a modern improvement on the old kitchen ranges, being used for boiling and stewing.

The plates were broad leaves, and for knives and forks the castaways used pointed sticks.

" "That plate will be a good point to begin with.

Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers scored the fifth run of the inning; the other men who had crossed the plate being Doyle, Murray, Merkle and Herzog.

The coloured plates are a novelty not without value.

The plate on which a joint or side-dish was placed upon the table was an ashet (Fr. assiette).

And the little German girl's plate of cherries, which she so generously urged upon a stranger when food of any kind was so scarce, is a beautiful illustration of the first verse of the eleventh chapter of Proverbs: 'Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.'

The presentation plate of the present Offering is a chaste and classical specimen of a kind of gold enamel engraving; The Sylph, engraved by Humphreys, is a pleasing picture; Virginia Water, from a picture by Daniell, is a delightful scene of rural repose; a Sculpture Group, by Fry; a View of Bombay; and the Captive Slave, by Finden; among the embellishments, are entitled to our commendatory notice.

Although the reflection of colors from the surface of a soap bubble is probably the most noticeable, yet the "plate" which lends itself most readily for experiment is a film of air confined between two sheets of glass.

The plate was Mr. Gilrae's, you know, sir, and Mason was responsible.

It swims, and the plates become paddles, propelling the frail craft, prisms, dividing the sunbeams into rainbow hues.

Mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, and aventurine, are all used in the enrichment of this beautiful specimen of inlaid work, and the lock plate is a representative example of the best kind of metal work as applied to this purpose.

According to Clavigero, this plate was thirty palms of Toledo in circumference and was worth 10,000 sequins, representing what he calls the Mexican centary, or rather cycle of fifty-two years, and having the sun in the centre.

see how the shears cut into the heavy metal plates; they cut as quietly and as softly as if the plates were paper.

The Communion plate is pre-Reformation, dating from 1511.

The plate in all cases projects over the edges of the test piece, and in no case should the length of the latter be less than four times the width of the plate.

The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for those were the strongest) preserved the balance while it fell, and hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water.

The plate which Captain Renfrew had set before his guest was a delicate dawn pink ringed with a wreath of holly.

Silver was then of ten times the value, and was more than twenty times more rare than at present; and consequently, of all species of luxury, plate must have been the rarest.]

In the screw steamer Azof, the valve is of the equilibrium construction, but the plate which carries the packing on which the top ring rests, is an octagon, and fits into an octagonal recess on the back of the valve.