But as we laid waste to the plateful, we loved them more and more.
The servant returned to us, bringing with him a tiny bottle of champagne and a plateful of delicate little sugared biscuits.
Pere Grandet returned from the garden with the fruit and arranged a plateful on the kitchen-table.
Plateful after plateful of stewed meat and potatoes, steaming and savoury, disappeared.
Diantha set the plateful on the table, puffy, brown, and crisply crusted.
The iced soda-cake was of her making, and so was the plateful of delicious treacle toffee.
