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    1. ' he replied, frowning slightly and staring at the spoon he is fiddling with


    2. "'Cause I said so!" Ma replied and smacked his head with a spoon


    3. Barney grins at me, banging his spoon on the table as his father tries to encourage him to eat his lunch … I can’t help feeling that Barney is far more interested in me than his food


    4. He fluffed it out a little so they could spoon it up better


    5. Feeling about ten years old, I spoon coffee into the mugs


    6. He reaches across and takes the spoon out of my hand


    7. I lay there in the dark, hugging the tea spoon to my chest


    8. I moved the camp bed back against the wall and crawled underneath the blanket, still hugging the spoon


    9. The girl visibly gathered her courage together, fiddling with the spoon in her saucer for a moment as though rehearsing the words she wanted to say


    10. of a spoon, hear the thunder of the rapid fire deliverer

    11. ’ He said, handing me a bowl and spoon


    12. 'So, what's up? I'm listening,' Ish said as he scooped up the last spoon of


    13. “Now this,” she began holding a plate with one hand and a large spoon with the other, “is similar to your earth potato, we call it a Yumata tuber; we mash it also and sprinkle it with Tyra salt


    14. Taste a small bit Lord Duncan,” she said handing Duncan a spoon of the Yumata


    15. spoon of mud from Rama's birthplace in their house


    16. ' I said, pausing as spoon in hand to work it out


    17. He comes back a short time later, carrying a bowl and a spoon


    18. ’ He tossed me the cardigan lying on the back of a chair and waited for me to sort myself out, before handing me the bowl and the spoon


    19. He watches as I tentatively spoon a small quantity of the semi-frozen gloop into my mouth


    20. Helen carefully wipes the serving spoon that she has been using to blend the various ingredients of the good doctor's happy cake mix on a sheet of kitchen roll

    21. Almost too tired to lift the spoon, he set to eating the hot food, his energy returning slowly as he worked his way through the serving in front of him


    22. Alex is with Rezarta in the family villa in Albania, watching her as she is spoon fed soup and porridge


    23. spoon with the end of her lips


    24. a short flat wooden spoon and began to mix the ingredients together


    25. me of the spoon that came with the chocolate malt ice cream I used to eat at the


    26. on the flat spoon and then spackled it above my eye


    27. destroyed in the bombing, besides the bodies, was an old rusty metal spoon, which


    28. looked closer at the spoon, and in the reflection, she saw a word spelt backwards; she turned around to see what these words were, and there, written so obviously on the


    29. She opened the third cupboard, and in the third cupboard there was an old spoon


    30. She looked at it, confused, and then decided that the spoon was of no use to her and she tossed it away absent-mindedly

    31. They each had a bowl, and what they knew was the native eating utensil, a small, pointed wooden spoon with a ‘V’ cut in it


    32. “We no longer care for the singularity; we now understand THE TRUTH! The answer is spoon


    33. “Vous ete une idiot!” the girl said angrily and hit her brother on top of the head with her silver soup spoon


    34. before,’ he said, putting down his spoon and shaking his


    35. his head closer to his bowl and took a sip from his spoon


    36. Flitter wiped the water off granny's spoon and peered closely at it


    37. ” Mary Dwindle sidled up to Flitter as he dipped his spoon into his bowl of steaming food


    38. Then spoon in hand he dived back into his tent to sample the delicious cereal


    39. She picked up a clean spoon and it followed the cauldron


    40. ” Her spoon dropped to the bowl and she stood quickly almost toppling over her chair in the process

    41. Today, with our shitty economy, being a gang member can fix you up far better than having a regular job, and the risk is not that great with all those dirty cops," said the 68 year old as he took a sip out of his spoon


    42. She wanted to merely tip the bowl and gulp it all down, but she instead made use of the spoon and carefully imbibed the hearty liquid until it was all gone


    43. ‘We quarrelled last March–just before HE went mad, you know–’ (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) ‘–it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing


    44. When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:


    45. I picked up my spoon as he continued speaking


    46. I placed the spoon in the bowl, wrapped the bread in a cloth and asked,


    47. ” Joseph said, as he took the last bite of his chicken stew and placed his spoon in the bowl


    48. ” So we adjourned to the kitchen and Helen brewed the tea she made it just how I liked it strong enough to stand the spoon up in and sweet


    49. ” Jean sighed and rolled her eyes, placing the spoon back on the edge of the bowl before she said, “Yes, I know all that, Terese, I know


    50. Milandene, a much older woman, made the tea from the boiling pot, stirring the leaf well with a huge wooden spoon kept for the purpose, and returned it to its hanging place by the hearthside












































    1. As she spooned her way through the soft-boiled eggs, Kara contemplated her next move


    2. 'Not in this one,' Ali's dad said as he spooned in daal


    3. And not until he spooned up his applesauce did the hands stop


    4. Janice spooned some sugar into the mug, stirred briefly and took it from her host


    5. Granny spooned another cup for Lemoss as he sat down


    6. ” Joseph spooned stew into his mouth


    7. She spooned up against me


    8. Russell spooned coffee powder into his mug and topped up with cold water


    9. But because Nik had made the pie especially for her, she spooned a square of it onto her plate and ate it slowly


    10. as he spooned six sugars into his coffee

    11. carefully spooned a teaspoonful of strawberry jam on the bread and


    12. ” the elder Mark chuckled as he spooned gravy onto his bun and took a big bite of it, which he finished before he continued


    13. Simon waited until his companion had torn off bread and spooned honey into the middle of it before serving himself


    14. They sipped iced tea and spooned chocolate pudding


    15. "We're hung up," Trask told her, while Carl stolidly spooned down chili and rice


    16. Chris was totally amazed at how Ruth spooned huge quantities of the hottest chili sauce onto her food and ate it with obvious gusto


    17. Travis watched the old man as his thin, bony but delicate hands spooned out the kisslyia shchi sauerkraut soup


    18. "You mean this one?" John Elliott asked as he spooned a small amount of the red jelly onto a plain unsalted cracker


    19. He rolled her onto her side and spooned her, his arms cradling her in a warm and gentle embrace


    20. The man then opened one of the powder packets from Wilson’s case and spooned two heaped measures into the cup of steaming liquid

    21. I had spooned the coffee into cups


    22. of his mother’s stew as she spooned it into a bowl, chattering excitedly that she


    23. He then spooned a couple of


    24. Their eyes widened with delight nearly at once and they then spooned more noodles in their plates before also taking a bit of everything else


    25. spooned the frozen sweets into our mouths


    26. But then she spooned me, and made little crooning noises, and I let her for a while


    27. So I boiled them, and spooned the tea into his mouth, and then poured the rest across his chest


    28. Trid got up and spooned hash from from the pan into a bowl, and gave it to him


    29. A few seconds later, Judy finally spooned some oatmeal into her mouth


    30. Clair spooned some mash potatoes onto the plate

    31. She’d already spooned ground coffee beans into a stainless steel coffee pot when he wandered into the kitchen


    32. ” Del held his plate out, and his wife spooned on dripping strands of pasta


    33. Grimes spooned a tiny amount of the black ash out of the box


    34. Caymus spooned some of the mix into a tin and pushed a


    35. Ravan spooned the soup into his mouth, obviously savoring the flavors as their sweet testimony reawakened his tongue


    36. Roman toast was his favourite, but of course, the maid gave in to him and spooned him an extra round, and with extra honey


    37. She turned aside and went to the fireplace, where the pot hung over the fire; she spooned only broth, gave it to him with a smile


    38. “Where's he going?” Allen asked as Emily spooned him some stew


    39. He kissed her cheek, and spooned in behind her


    40. Caris spooned cabbage leaves on top of the ham

    41. She spooned some nitrates into a troika of tubes and wrapped each in a tee-shirt to keep the glass from breaking


    42. He spooned some into a cup and squeezed out half a lemon too, then stirred in the hot water


    43. And this ragged eaten cincture in his navel into which a pudding might be spooned


    44. But John spooned his soup and buttered his bread and cut his steak, staring off at the ceiling or at his friends, while my gut settled in cement


    45. ” “Yes, sir!” So, do you know what I did, Doctor? I bought a quart of French chocolate ice cream and spooned it into the car radio transmitter


    46. She put grease in the frying pan, and when it whispered with heat, she spooned the dough into it


    47. The pieces are now put into a pie-dish, legs undermost, some thinly-sliced bacon is added and some potatoes Parisienne (spooned with the special potato spoon)


    1. She rocked gently back and forth in her chair, spooning cat food into her mouth and smiling to herself


    2. ’ He pauses, spooning cereal into his mouth before going on


    3. I catch Simon’s eye and we both repress a smile as Sally goes bright red and Gary suddenly concentrates very hard on spooning up the last of his soup


    4. She rolls over and folds herself into the man's back, spooning, and with her left hand she reaches over his hips and glides her hand across his abdomen towards his morning erection


    5. ” We moved on and as we did so I thought no more dances for you Charlie my son or birthdays and forget Christmas no more walking out with young ladies or holding hands and spooning in the moonlight no more anything and the tears streamed down my face


    6. Spooning the froth from the top, he took out his mobile and put through a call


    7. He was spooning me, with


    8. She was spooning up against him in no time


    9. a spooning position, which was comfortable and intimate without pressing any weight


    10. She thought about lying in bed with Mel, spooning, with her back to his front, hugged and comfy

    11. Spooning in coffee, sugar and powdered milk he waits patiently for the water to heat up


    12. She looked away from me, spooning something thick and beige in her mouth, while she sat by herself at a long table, filled with other inmates


    13. Seeing his big appetite, the graying woman who was the servants’ cook poured what was left of the pot of stew in Heracles’ bowl as he was spooning the last of his initial portion


    14. Spooning a hefty helping of


    15. Multiple Viirin, tall and thin and pale as fleeting wisps of cloud, continuously circulated the room, refilling goblets and ladling gravies and spooning oddly shaped items that Stedder had never before seen the like of but which he imagined to be food, possibly grown from the ground?


    16. He was semi-conscious, and Gwen was spooning broth into his mouth


    17. Then?” He shrugged, spooning another mouthful and chewing thoughtfully


    18. Elm sat like a doting mother beside her child, affectionately feeding, stroking her hair aside after spooning broth into her mouth and all the while telling her how well she was doing


    19. They entered a large room where many boys were sat chewing handfuls of fresh bread and spooning huge globs of porridge into their mouths


    20. Cai turned red-faced and moved away and went to stand by himself, spooning stew into his mouth

    21. Arthur then waited for Tegid to start spooning out his stew


    22. Medraut went and sat on the edge of the bed next to Arthur, watching him, watching me spooning out porridge into a bowl


    23. It was freezing and I stood close to the fire, watching Tegid spooning out stew to the men


    24. ” Connie said as she opened a jar of baby food and started spooning the green pea goo into little Brian’s mouth


    25. To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,


    26. I had silently lambasted myself for not hiking more quickly, but now, as I sat in my camp chair catatonically spooning my dinner into my mouth from the hot pot that sat in the dirt between my feet, I was only thankful that I’d made it this far


    27. drinks those stagedoor johnnies drink with the opera hats I tasted once with my finger dipped out of that American that had the squirrel talking stamps with father he had all he could do to keep himself from falling asleep after the last time after we took the port and potted meat it had a fine salty taste yes because I felt lovely and tired myself and fell asleep as sound as a top the moment I popped straight into bed till that thunder woke me up God be merciful to us I thought the heavens were coming down about us to punish us when I blessed myself and said a Hail Mary like those awful thunderbolts in Gibraltar as if the world was coming to an end and then they come and tell you theres no God what could you do if it was running and rushing about nothing only make an act of contrition the candle I lit that evening in Whitefriars street chapel for the month of May see it brought its luck though hed scoff if he heard because he never goes to church mass or meeting he says your soul you have no soul inside only grey matter because he doesnt know what it is to have one yes when I lit the lamp because he must have come 3 or 4 times with that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has I thought the vein or whatever the dickens they call it was going to burst though his nose is not so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick crowbar standing all the time he must have eaten oysters I think a few dozen he was in great singing voice no I never in all my life felt anyone had one the size of that to make you feel full up he must have eaten a whole sheep after whats the idea making us like that with a big hole in the middle of us or like a Stallion driving it up into you because thats all they want out of you with that determined vicious look in his eye I had to halfshut my eyes still he hasnt such a tremendous amount of spunk in him when I made him pull out and do it on me considering how big it is so much the better in case any of it wasnt washed out properly the last time I let him finish it in me nice invention they made for women for him to get all the pleasure but if someone gave them a touch of it themselves theyd know what I went through with Milly nobody would believe cutting her teeth too and Mina Purefoys husband give us a swing out of your whiskers filling her up with a child or twins once a year as regular as the clock always with a smell of children off her the one they called budgers or something like a nigger with a shock of hair on it Jesusjack the child is a black the last time I was there a squad of them falling over one another and bawling you couldnt hear your ears supposed to be healthy not satisfied till they have us swollen out like elephants or I dont know what supposing I risked having another not off him though still if he was married Im sure hed have a fine strong child but I dont know Poldy has more spunk in him yes thatd be awfully jolly I suppose it was meeting Josie Powell and the funeral and thinking about me and Boylan set him off well he can think what he likes now if thatll do him any good I know they were spooning a bit when I came on the scene he was dancing and sitting out with her the night of Georgina Simpsons housewarming and then he wanted to ram it down my neck it was on account of not liking to see her a wallflower that was why we had the standup row over politics he began it not me when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter at last he made me cry of course a woman is so sensitive about everything I was fuming with myself after for giving in only for I knew he was gone on me and the first socialist he said He was he annoyed me so much I couldnt put him into a temper still he knows a lot of mixedup things


    28. “Assuming the wind holds, Sir,” the first lieutenant agreed as he began spooning powdered milk into his cup


    29. Spooning together in the backseat of his car


    30. Spooning his morning cereal, Douglas felt a simple, pure white flame of hatred stand inside him, burning with a steady, unflickering beauty

    1. · To dwell more on pleasant things rather than unpleasant things, like comparing with less fortunate than with those who are born with silver spoons in their mouth


    2. I watch as he reaches for two mugs from the mug tree and spoons coffee into them


    3. Again all is covered in dust, but on the kitchen table are two plates, two cups, forks, spoons, a couple used paper napkins,


    4. spoons of sugar and stirred the cup


    5. affection and safety, playing the spoons


    6. Taking it, he goes over to where the cauldron is keeping hot and spoons out some more for both himself and me


    7. Even her pyjamas smelled of silver spoons and the soldier simply couldn't resist temptation


    8. Even her pyjamas smelled of silver spoons and


    9. He is so wrapped-up in the gathering of secrets that he doesn’t notice a tub of ladles and slatted spoons standing directly to the left hand side of the hatch


    10. Ted stoops to pick the spoons and ladles up, to hide the evidence, but he is far too old and far too clumsy

    11. Got a can out the fridge, turned round to leave and bumped the stupid fucking spoons


    12. He spoons instant coffee into two chipped brown mugs and waits for the kettle to boil


    13. spoons of sugar from the bowl on the table


    14. ’ She said, her eyes on his back as he busies himself with mugs and spoons


    15. spoons in the officer's galley


    16. no spoons, so they were forced to use their hands –


    17. Both lads as they jolted along patted their pocket to ensure Granny's spoons were still there


    18. The lads quickly glanced into the spoons and indeed saw a fading Dingle waving, as he tended his herbal and vegetable patch


    19. with his spoons and in not so polite a manner


    20. things myself, and if you'll bring chafing-dishes and spoons, and those

    21. themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into


    22. themselves, and, mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into


    23. Dinner was a semi-formal, yet fun affair, complete with liveried servants, glittering silver-domed plates, and the usual mucking about with thirteen different knives, forks and spoons


    24. ‘Brrrrowwww…’ and then the spoons rattled in the saucers


    25. Those who want to eat sit in a circle around the large metal bowl that contains the fire, first heating the cans, then passing out spoons and forks, then passing cans around so everyone can have a bite of everything


    26. 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers were of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for


    27. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they


    28. that perfect gold; 22 And the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold, and the entry of the house, the


    29. to minister, and to offer besides, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver; And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord


    30. 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels

    31. candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which were of silver in silver, took the captain of


    32. Sierra banged into the wall, and the wooden rack with the souvenir spoons her mother had collected, slipped off its hooks and fell down on Sierra’s head


    33. Silver spoons rained over her and went tinkling to the floor


    34. I did have a collection of plastic spoons acquired in food establishments


    35. 16 And he made the vessels which were on the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold


    36. 7 And on the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:


    37. 84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:


    38. 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels


    39. ate them cold, with plastic spoons


    40. 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers

    41. spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold


    42. tions, including a baby walker, spoons that have been dropped


    43. face with forty spoons of warm water


    44. She took forty spoons of water and put some salt in it


    45. As the children gobbled their food with stainless spoons from aluminum mess gear, Aelfcild's mother renewed her refrain


    46. Octavius and several others provided the music with fiddles, spoons, and washboards,


    47. “Here, silly, put some ice in it,” Tina offers and spoons a couple of small chunks of ice into your cup from her water glass


    48. • In a small pan, roast (with very little oil), 3-4 tb spoons of split chana daal


    49. In Wales wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on February


    50. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favourite decorations on the spoons













































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    Synonyms for "spoon"

    spoon spoonful smooch ladle scoop shovel trowel spade dipper

    "spoon" definitions

    a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food


    as much as a spoon will hold


    formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face


    scoop up or take up with a spoon


    snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others