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"Teaspoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... for some impromptu meal at which a knife will not be used, the fork takes the place of the knife at the right-hand side, and the teaspoon is laid beside ...

— Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration • Lillian B. Lansdown

... where the circuit is four hundred miles and the distance to railroad, doctor, post-office, fifty-five miles. This little curate had had a hard time, though his mission was an easy one. When his turn came to report, his face resembled the reflection on an inverted teaspoon. Hardship had taken all the bounce and laugh and joy and rebound out of him. The other frontier missionaries grew restless as he spoke. One magnificent specimen, who had been a gambler in his unregenerate days, began ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... of: /n./ [South Africa] A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... the crack didn't let any through at first, most likely. You can't get your explosions right if there's water. That's why it starts first off and keeps going till the water works through. 'Tisn't much of a crack, I guess. A file wouldn't be any more use than a teaspoon." ...

— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... observe anybody meddle with that half-pint mug afterwards?—I saw Miss Blandy take the teaspoon that was in the mug and stir the water gruel, and after put her finger to the spoon, and then ...

— Trial of Mary Blandy • William Roughead

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