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burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great maggoty haggis,
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
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ALGERNON. And, speaking of the science of Life, have you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?
LANE. Yes, sir. [Hands them on a salver.]
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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He bore a sheaf of stiff paper like a salver and was followed by Rupert and the immaculate Ned Gowan, bringing up the rear like royal equerries.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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On the salver lay some verses composed and printed in the hero’s honor.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 04 (Book Four)
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Indeed it is Julia Mills, peevish and fine, with a black man to carry cards and letters to her on a golden salver, and a copper-coloured woman in linen, with a bright handkerchief round her head, to serve her Tiffin in her dressing-room.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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