My idea is that we can silver-plate it to hide the fact that it is made of iron. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenblood]
Here he found Eskimos with pieces of silver-plate bearing the crest and initials of Sir John Franklin and some of his officers. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
By that standard, Fanciulli was one of the greats, having been immortalized in a trading-card equivalent, the silver-plate souvenir spoon. From Wordnik.com. [Making Bitter Fernet-Branca Much Easier to Swallow] Reference
On the lid of the box was a silver-plate engraving. From Wordnik.com. [James Fenimore Cooper] Reference
Silver (sterling or silver-plate) does not go in the dishwasher. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
The three thousand francs were gone, with the silver-plate and the trinkets. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
Plants and succulents tucked in old silver-plate place in tabletop groupings. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
And how came it that all this silver-plate had found its way into my pockets?. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852] Reference
He even had his name engraved on the silver-plate, leaving a blank after the word "Died.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference
The napery is splendid, the cutlery heavy silver-plate in an old-fashioned pattern, the glasses Riedel. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
It seems that on one of the lines -- I forget which -- a large box full of silver-plate was despatched. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
Again, Gobseck had refused free delivery of his silver-plate, and declined to guarantee the weights of his coffees. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
He ordered all the silver-plate belonging to his table to be weighed, and to be distributed if his standard silver fell short. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
Here is another extract from Pliny, from which you will see that in those times they already made in France "Christofle" silver-plate. From Wordnik.com. [Characters and events of Roman History] Reference
In one of the parlors of the Warner House there is a choice store of family relics -- china, silver-plate, costumes, old clocks, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Town By the Sea] Reference
Gobelin tapestry, the gold-framed pictures; the convenience of elegant furniture, and the artificial delicacies of the table on silver-plate. '. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852] Reference
The globules of air, clinging to the body-hairs, appear to silver-plate them; and they can remain below indefinitely, breathing through spiracles. From Wordnik.com. [Police!!!] Reference
Here the old man was employed busily in the doubtful task of burnishing a pewter flagon until it should take the hue and semblance of silver-plate. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Where does that kind of detail from the smell of scalded dishrags to the naphthalene in Ellen's hair or the ices served in silver-plate dishes come from?. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
On both sides the combatants laid hands on bread, wine, money, silver-plate, clothes, cattle big and little, and what could not be carried off was burnt. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Prince and the Mayor, reported to be a rank Chartist, drove to glass and silver-plate manufactories and papier-mache works, the town hall, and the schools. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference
But, "said he, speaking aloud," will you not come to the window, at least? for Knighton has trundled a piece of silver-plate into your house -- ha! ha! ha!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
Kirk & Matz Ltd., manufacturers and distributors of silver-plate giftware and awards for more than 60 years, has renewed its supporting partnership of Golf Retirement Plus. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The room itself was crammed with furniture, and silver-plate, and lamps, and vases, and pictures; there were books, and curiosities, and fine engravings lying rolled up, unframed. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
At all events, he is the spectator, artisan and beneficiary of his own dictatorship; the silver-plate and money he confiscates passes under his eye, through his hands; he sees the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
They're all Protestants too -- every man and boy among 'em: and Protestants are very fond of spoons, I find, and silver-plate in general, whenever area-gates is left open accidentally. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge]
"My specialty is silver - sterling, silver-plate and coin silver, which is early American silver," says owner Vince Tortorelli, who also carries furniture and some fine old European china. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
Foragers fly far; the villages of the North-East are harried; your Hessian forager has only 'three sous a day:' the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate, -- by way of revenge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Coudert, of the Municipal Council, shoemaker, charged with the duty of taking silver-plate from the accused, did not know how, or was unwilling, to draw up any other than an irregular and valueless procès-verbal. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
Judges served him some important wins in silver-plate (Whitaker. From Wordnik.com. [East Side Boxing] Reference
21 the sheet (of a bed) the rent (of a house) the creditor the chin the silver-plate to borrow. From Wordnik.com. [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference
Do you hear, Turnip? you ain't much account; you're on'y silver-plate, yer know, so you don't ought to be proud, you don't! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference
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