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Sentence Examples
| She proudly displays a silver salver from the Council's gardening competition last year. |
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| It turned out to be a silver-plated salver with porcelain teapot, milk jug, egg-cup containing sugar and dish of sliced kiwi fruit. |
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| Care-O-Bot can sidle up to Roboshaker, fetch a drink and serve it on a silver salver. |
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| Then it was back out to the 18th green to accept the silver salver given to the runner-up. |
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| A silver salver and a wine cooler were packed by mistake, he told police. |
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| The Convention replaced a convention on the law of salvage adopted in Brussels in 1910 which incorporated the ''no cure, no pay' principle under which a salver is only rewarded for services if the operation is successful. |
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| I gave them tea and coffee, and about half an hour after nine had a salver brought in of chocolate, mulled white wine and biscuits. |
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| The salver, which was bequeathed to the Bank of Canada by Lady Macmillan in 1967, is part of the artifact collection of the Bank of Canada Archives. |
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| The sterling presentation salver displayed on the cover is encircled by an everted rim, richly chased and engraved with a pierced foliate vine, c-scrolls, scallop shells, and a decorative floral motif. |
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| Consisting of a large centre figure flanked by two dessert stands and a large silver salver, it is several feet in height and inscribed to a Mr Thomas Hawksley from the Corporation of Nottingham. |
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| One of its other triumphs is the kids' club – a tremendous conscience salver should parents need more time alone, because it is genuinely somewhere children want to go. |
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| He then nodded discreetly to his hovering manservant, who vanished, then quickly reappeared with a silver salver upon which sat a pitcher of water, an empty glass, a foil envelope, and a spoon. |
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| Here, it is a processional salver, a tray, used to serve at a feast. |
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| After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| My chum and I had to go out in the evening and take this salver out to the chicken run behind the barn. |
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| While he was speaking the servant entered with a salver, and on the salver was a note. |
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| He took the glass that Mullins proffered on a salver, sipped from it, and set it down. |
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| There were cards and envelopes upon the salver in the hall, but not one from Mildred. |
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| The servant entered with a card, which she presented on a salver to her mistress. |
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| A compartment of a shaft, lined with royal blue velvet, appeared, and on a golden salver a letter. |
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| She gave a little nervous shriek, and caught it from his salver. |
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| When he had finished, he went to a table upon which was a salver with Spanish wine and glasses. |
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| The landlord came and brought a pottle of wine and a long narrow glass upon a salver, which he held up to the Page as he sat upon his horse. |
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| Immediately a large goblet of it was brought to him, on a salver. |
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| Mrs. Hudson had appeared with a lady's card upon her salver. |
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| They went to Mayor Phelan demanding Williamson's head on a salver. |
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| On the salver lay some verses composed and printed in the hero's honor. |
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| I had opened my mouth to reply to this tirade, when with a crisp knock our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver. |
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| Here one of the waiters, who had been for some minutes busy making a queer-looking mixture of egg and sherry, respectfully presented it on a large silver salver. |
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| Directly behind these officers came four others carrying a similar salver which supported the magnificent ornaments of a prince and princess of the reigning house of Zodanga. |
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| No one said anything, till Laurie, who insisted on serving the bride, appeared before her, with a loaded salver in his hand and a puzzled expression on his face. |
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| The following day it's the Eland Salver, an 18-hole medal competition with a handicap limit of 10 to 20 and the Eland Rose Bowl. |
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