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He winked at Stephen and, replacing the dish-cover, began to eat again.
It was a long, flat box, with something of the aspect of a dish-cover.
If not it must take its chance," and snatching at the dish-cover angrily, he turned and left the chamber. "
Take the dish-cover up!
It was a filthy grey winter's afternoon, with snow everywhere, and a sky like a dirty dish-cover clamped down over it.
I don't know the ridiculous man in the looking-glass, beyond having met him once or twice in a dish-cover - and I can never shave HIM to-morrow morning!
From flat-iron, dish-cover, and warming-pan; from pot and kettle, face of brass footman, and black-leaded stove; bright glances of approbation wink and glow upon her.
He hesitated, gave the dish-cover an extra polish, then called through the door to Mrs. Horton: "There's a tramp in the garden, Bridget, and Mr. Weeden's with him."
Rose is a foundling, and bases her ideals on a book of etiquette which, with a change of baby-linen, were her only possessions when she was discovered in a plated dish-cover suspended to the knocker of the workhouse door.
Thanks to her own neat-handed ways and Hepsey's prompting through the slide, Christie got on very well; managed her salver dexterously, only upset one glass, clashed one dish-cover, and forgot to sugar the pie before putting it on the table; an omission which was majestically pointed out, and graciously pardoned as a first offence.