Read full poem →Crowding into the choking pantry hole
To call out dishes for each angry glutton
Exasperated grown beyond control,
Dictionary Entry
A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dishesdishes petridishes washingdishes dirtydishes sidedishes washdishes main
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Poetry examples for “dishes”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →you’re married and hands get red washing
things and dishes)and to never, never really wonder i
mean about the smell
Read full poem →Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you’ll find her
Read full poem →Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you'll find her
Read full poem →The mouldy crust and falling bone to catch.
The wooden dishes round in haste are set,
And round the table all the boys are met;
Read full poem →These delicates he heap'd with glowing hand
On golden dishes and in baskets bright
Of wreathed silver: sumptuous they stand
Read full poem →And, if it happen as I did forecast,
The daintiest dishes shall be serv'd up last.
I pray thee then deny me not thy aide
Read full poem →©9) and do your ears quite suddenly and without warning burn red? Or do you,
washing dishes, with the same clothes you wore two years ago rotting under
your armpits, still talk about the visigoths to your oh so pathetic self and divine
Read full poem →My favourite dishes are full of butter and cheese and sour cream.
In New York we had so many free luncheons with people on the
Read full poem →I dabbled my fingers in the bowl of warm water a Ladies’ Day
waitress set down in place of my two empty ice-cream dishes. Then
I wiped each finger carefully with my linen napkin which was still