The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Right in front of him stood a porringer full of milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate, i. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Ursula; — and what have you in that porringer, dame? —. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
‘But,’ showing a porringer with a Sunday dinner in it. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
To prove his words, he began to empty the huge porringer of soup before him. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
My protectress soon returned with a small bowl of sago, a small porringer of sour milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference
Abu Kir and found he had eaten all that was in the porringer and thrown it aside, empty. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Many a heated, yet amusing, quarrel, many a storm in a porringer relieved the monotony of camp life. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"We have glasses," said he, "but they were all broke in the cock-pit; but a tin porringer is just as good.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
At last he awoke; and then Nellie gave him some milk from the porringer, and tried to rock him to sleep again. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
His conscience, like the unnest-porringer. ling of a parcel of young His desire, like six trusses of hay. herons. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Abu Sir returned to Abu Kir he saw that he had eaten all that was in the porringer and had thrown it aside empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The kitten lapped up the last drop, and with his tongue polished the porringer around the rim as well as on the inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
She bore in her hands a coarse brown porringer filled with steaming viands, a lump of dark homely bread, and a white cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Then he set apart a porringer of Kabábs and putting therein some of each dish, till there was enough for ten, gave it to Abu Sir, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I value this porringer more than almost any of my possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Montfort] Reference
"Kasa'ah," a wooden bowl, a porringer; also applied to a saucer. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Then my friend gave me a silver porringer full of wine-and-water. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
Two dogs are running: one after game, and another to a porringer. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
There was a sort of porringer of farina, and some cakes of the same substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Midshipmen] Reference
"I have the old Vanderdecken porringer, if it is the one with the cow on the cover.". From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Montfort] Reference
"See what it is," he said to Foljambe, and put the Queen Anne toy-porringer in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Lucia] Reference
A porringer would do for the vase, and I had one which was used for cooking eggs in butter. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The pretty girl went upstairs, leaving Rene to finish his porringer of buckwheat in boiled milk. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
From traditional Scottish porridge made with salt in a porringer to microwave oats sweetened with honey. From Wordnik.com. [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference
There were a gold Louis XVI snuff box, a miniature by Karl Huth, a silver toy porringer of the time of Queen. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Lucia] Reference
A crust of bread and an onion in the morning, a porringer of soup in the evening, and for the night a bundle of straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Rose early and having made myself fine, and put six spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give away to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Rose early and having made myself fine, and put six spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give away to-day, Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 10: April/May 1661] Reference
For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth.] Reference
He next poured out a porringer of milk, to which he afterwards added one-third of the peach pie, and several platesful of rice pudding. From Wordnik.com. [My First Cruise and Other stories] Reference
At sight of the bread and milk, my cherub was transformed into a hungry human child, chiefly anxious to reach the bottom of her porringer. From Wordnik.com. [Oldport Days] Reference
And away she goes forthwith and is presently back bearing an embossed cup (like unto a little porringer) and of gold curiously ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference
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