"Dishing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs. Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful "For what we are about to receive—" with a sepulchral Amen, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various
... no understanding of the feverish anxiety that filled the heart of the little maiden who was moving briskly about the pleasant kitchen dishing up the dinner, Mr. Blanchard threw open the door with a chuckle. "Took every one of them and paid the money down," he announced, coming to the fire. "Got more than I expected, too, for his scales made them weigh more than ours, so ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 • Various
... with what they had wanted—something to take up their attention till dinner-time, which Harry, by making a charge into the kitchen, found to be in the process of what Mrs Cook termed "dishing up;" so they entered the house, where they found Papa just going to relieve himself of a little of the black which clung to him; and soon afterwards, at dinner, they heard all that had been done to make the best of ...
— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn
... David!" cried Polly, dishing out Joel's mush from the kettle on the stove, and setting the bowl ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... And some have sighed to win a deathless name Where fields of carnage corpses thickly strew, And shrieks of agony are heard 'mid smoke and flame; But these are dizzy heights attained by few; So, when Dame Fortune is her favors dishing, I hope that I'll get mine ...
— The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems • George W. Doneghy
... have to wait long, I guess," his chum declared, "because from all the signs of dishing out I imagine they're about ready ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren
... answer nor gave any sign of hearing; she went on dishing up breakfast. Ellen waited ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Susan Warner
... wired him when I first arrived, he would have had a week of the most damnable suspense, because, owing to the uncertainty of the exact date of our demobilization, I could not have informed him of the exact time of my arrival home. Consequently, he'd have had old Carolina, our cook, dishing up nightly fearful quantities of the sort of grub I was raised on. And that would be wasteful. Also, he'd sit under the catalpa tree outside the western wall of the hacienda and never take his eyes ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... anybody about at bedtime. Jenny was dishing up the dinner. Harriet was waiting. Catty only ran up for a minute to undo the hooks and ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... I never could get enough light, myself," the matron continued agreeably, descending the porch steps. "Before I come here I never had nothing in my kitchen but an oil lamp and a reflector. Jest as sure as I'd be dishing up dinner, hot nights, that lamp would begin to flicker and suck—well, shucks! I'd look up at it and I'd say, 'Well, why don't you go out? Go ahead!'" Mrs. Tolley laughed joyously. "Well, one night—George—" she was continuing with relish, when Min pulled at her sleeve and, with a sort ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... that trouble the waters to mend the fishing, And fight the Lord's battles under the devil's commission, Such as eat up the nation, whilst the government's a-dishing; And from a people when it should be doing, stands wishing; From fools and ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... dishing up a similar theme with a piquant sauce of sensuality, made but a vulgar and trivial piece of ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer
... huge cottonwood tree beside the house and bounced out with an armload of mail and newspapers. Inside the kitchen door, he dumped the mail on the sideboard and started to toss his hat on a wall hook when he noticed the condition of the room. Hetty was dishing out fragrant, warmed-over stew into three lunch dishes on the table. She had cleaned up the worst of the mess and changed into a fresh shirt and jeans. Her iron-gray hair was pulled back in a still-damp knot at the back after a hasty scrubbing ...
— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael
... bank to the other. When we were full forty miles distant from Frenchman's Ford on the Yellowstone, the wagon, in crossing Sweet Grass, went down a sidling bank into the bottom of the creek, the left hind wheel collided with a boulder in the water, dishing it, and every spoke in the wheel snapped off at the shoulder in the felloe. McCann never noticed it, but poured the whip into the mules, and when he pulled out on the opposite bank left the felloe of his wheel in the creek behind. ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... promptly resigned, and Lord Derby came into office. Disraeli, as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, proceeded with characteristic audacity and a light heart to educate the new Conservative Party in the art of dishing ...
— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid |
