dish-cover

He looked about the premises for a seat, and none being disengaged, for a dish-cover was on one,

The History of Pendennis 2006

Your father had potato-eyes upon his plate on Sunday; and which way did I see you trying to hang up a dish-cover?

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

French man, whose chance would have been very small in a personal encounter with his chief, arose and took a naval sword, short but rather heavy, from a hook which in better days had held a big dish-cover, and making a salute rather graceful than gracious, presented the fringed handle to the carver.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Matilda was fain to assure herself that the main part of this might be superficial, like a dish-cover polished with the spots on, and she lost her handkerchief on purpose to come back and try a little test-work of her own.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Entering the dining-room he pettishly snatched off the dish-cover.

Ultima Thule 2003

He winked at Stephen and, replacing the dish-cover, began to eat again.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

It was a filthy grey winter's afternoon, with snow everywhere, and a sky like a dirty dish-cover clamped down over it.

Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967

Fanny chatted like a magpie, and Maud fidgeted, till Tom proposed to put her under the big dish-cover, which produced such an explosion, that the young lady was borne screaming away, by the much-enduring

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Joe's face became scarlet; and to hide his confusion he seized a dish-cover, and hastily went out of the room with it, returning in a moment pale and serious as became one who at heart was every inch a family butler with immense responsibilities.

J. Cole Emma Gellibrand

This aquarium was in appearance somewhat like an inverted dish-cover of glass -- one of the best shapes to be had.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene