OEUFS AU PLAT, or AU MIROIR, served on the Dish in which they are Cooked. 1661.

Broiled fish, such as mackerel, whiting, herrings, dried haddocks, &c.; mutton chops and rump-steaks, broiled sheep's kidneys, kidneys à la maître d'hôtel, sausages, plain rashers of bacon, bacon and poached eggs, ham and poached eggs, omelets, plain boiled eggs, oeufs-au-plat, poached eggs on toast, muffins, toast, marmalade, butter, &c. &c. 2146.

She was swinging in her hammock on the back porch; this back porch looked over towards the sea, a grass plat touched the edge of the porch and then came the garden; it was a kitchen garden, and stretched down to the flat rocks, and beyond the flat rocks were the sand and the sea.

The best soil commonly yields the worst air, a dry sandy plat is fittest to build upon, and such as is rather hilly than plain, full of downs, a Cotswold country, as being most commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleasures.

Official journal of the Indian intercourseQuestion of freedmen, or persons not bonded forIndian chiefs, Chacopee, Neenaby, Mukwakwut, Tems Couvert, Shingabowossin, Guelle Plat, Grosse GuelleFurther notice of Wampum-hairRed DevilBiographical notice of Guelle Plat, or Flat MouthBrechetMeeshug, a widowIauwindMongazid, chief of Fond du LacChianokwutWhite BirdAnnamikens, the hero of a bear fight, &c. &c. 1828.

Official journal of the Indian intercourseQuestion of freedmen, or persons not bonded forIndian chiefs, Chacopee, Neenaby, Mukwakwut, Tems Couvert, Shingabowossin, Guelle Plat, Grosse GuelleFurther notice of Wampum-hairRed DevilBiographical notice of Guelle Plat, or Flat MouthBrechetMeeshug, a widowIauwindMongazid, chief of Fond du LacChianokwutWhite BirdAnnamikens, the hero of a bear fight, &c. &c. 1828.

Guelle Plat, or Ashkebuggecoash (the Flat Mouth), of Leech Lake, upper Mississippi, announced his arrival, with sixty persons, chiefly warriors and hunters.

Guelle Plat repeated his visit with his followers, and made a speech, in which he took a view of his intercourse with the English and Americans.

Guelle Plat returned from his visit to Michilimackinac; states that the Agent at that post (Mr. Boyd) had given him a sheep, but had referred him to me, when speaking on the subject of presents, &c., saying that he belonged to my agency.

Guelle Plat came to take leave preparatory to his return.

The traces of a narrow trench, surrounding a square plat of ground, now covered with the interlacing arms of hawthorn and wild honey-suckle, arrest the attention as we are proceeding along a strongly beaten track in the deep woods, and we are assured that this is the site of the "old French town" which has given its name to the portion of country around.

It was a lovely day, and as warm as any summer day, though the autumn was just setting in, and such a group of young children were at play on the grass plat, near the house, that the like Marten nor Reuben had never seen before.

The hostess, who, as I entered, was gossiping with some cronies in the dark doorway, while she pretended to twist the wool that she carried upon the most rustic of distaffsa common forked sticklaid this down, and, blowing up the embers on the hearth, proceeded to cook some eggs sur le plat.

The average number of children who have been maintained, cloathed, and educated, for the last twelve months, has been three hundred and eighty; of whom three hundred are employed in manufacturing of pins, straw plat, and lace.

If not, give me a rude plat of it by representing the line of the lake and the line of the river, so that I can describe it . . .

A lady had come to Mississippi selling property and she had a plat which she said was in Little Rock not far from the capitol.

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removèd place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm....

There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest.

My mother b'longed to Bob Plat and my father to a man named Rogers.

There were the deep narrow ruts which the wheels of a chaise, long stationary, had made in the turf at the side of the road; and south of them was a plat of poached ground where the horses had stood and shifted their feet uneasily.

and he pointed at some scraggly bunches on chin and cheeks which resembled a young grass plat that had come up badly.

If within a town plat it must not exceed one-half an acre in extent, and if not within a town plat, it must not embrace in the aggregate more than forty acres.

If within a town plat it must not exceed one-half an acre in extent, and if not within a town plat, it must not embrace in the aggregate more than forty acres.

The description and plat shall then be recorded by the recorder in a book to be called the "homestead book," which shall be provided with a proper index.

The owner may from time to time change the limits of the homestead by changing the metes and bounds, as well as the record of the plat and description, or may change it entirely, but such changes shall not prejudice conveyances or liens made or created previously thereto, and no change of the entire homestead made without the concurrence of the husband or wife, shall affect his or her right or those of the children.