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I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

I ate a plate of beans.

The meat plate was particularly tasty.

With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate .

A clutch usually has two plates .

He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull .

If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate .

The tea was served in the plate .

We finished making the plates this morning.

Sit down and give your plates a rest.

There was a close play at the plate .

He was confronted by two knights in full plate .

mangled through plate and mail

Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.

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At every meal—and I have heard the meals at Petleighcote were neither abundant nor succulent—enough plate stood upon the table to pay for the feeding of the poor of the whole county for a month

At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire

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Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat , / Proclaimed in her a careless hand of pride.

they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch(sic) some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.

hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.

The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat .

Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship's patronage.

Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat , which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.

Eleuthera made palmetto plat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.

The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of straw plat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.

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The best soil commonly yields the worst air, a dry sandy plat is fittest to build upon, and such as is rather hilly than plain.

This flowery plat , the sweet recess of Eve.

O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbors shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live-oak with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.

For which cause I wish you to note all the islands, and to set them down in [a] plat .

A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.

The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat .

In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published (see figure 34).

Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat , and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King,

So shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which Stanlhurst first tooke in hand.

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