cheese-plate

A fine specimen will have a body about as large as a small hen's egg, and, with his legs in their natural position, will just stand in a cheese-plate.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, 'Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Hugo, playing, perhaps rather nervously, with the knife and cheese-plate which still lay on the small table by the window.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Dr. Knott settled himself back squarely in his chair and pushed his cheese-plate away from him, while his shaggy eyebrows drew together as he fixed his eyes on the young man at the head of the table.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

"Yes, and moths, some of them bigger than a cheese-plate."

Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy George Manville Fenn 1870

The spiked leaves and the scarlet berries formed themselves into a crown -- I think, indeed, that a cheese-plate would have been transformed into a diadem if Miss Floyd has been pleased to put it on her head -- and she looked like the genius of Christmas: something bright and beautiful -- too beautiful to come more than once a year.

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, 'Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!

David Copperfield 1850

What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, 'Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!

David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

Signor Billsmethi in particular, notwithstanding his having a little fiddle to play all the time, was out on the landing every figure, and Master Billsmethi, when everybody else was breathless, danced a hornpipe, with a cane in his hand, and a cheese-plate on his head, to the unqualified admiration of the whole company.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

a gentleman sitting opposite to him, with a patch over one eye, and a nose broken in three places, swore that young Thorpe had personally insulted him by implying that he was the thief; and vindicated his moral character by throwing a cheese-plate at Zack's head.

Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856