Moreover, there was something which troubled him more and was the reason for his contemplated call on his friend. He evened the coals on the fire with great care, and replenished from the pail in the ice- box the cats' saucers. There was a circle of clean white saucers around the stove. Jim owned many cats; counting the kittens, there were probably over twenty. Adkins counted them in the sixties. "Those sixty-seven cats," she said. Jim often gave away cats when he was confident of securing good homes, but supply exceeded the demand. Now and then tragedies took place in that woodshed.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
On this night Becky sat on a cushion upon the hearth rug and had a cup and saucer of her own.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
It is yes, Jerry. That's about it. You may say yes, Jerry.'
Mr. Cruncher had no particular meaning in these sulky corroborations, but made use of them, as people not unfrequently do, to express general ironical dissatisfaction. `You and your yes, Jerry,' said Mr. Cruncher, taking a bite out of his bread-and-butter, and seeming to help it down with a large invisible oyster out of his saucer. I think so. I believe you.'
`You are going out to-night?' asked his decent wife, when he took another bite.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
She acceded to the suggestion of bouillon, which was grateful and acceptable. He went himself to the kitchen, which was a building apart from the cottages and lying to the rear of the house. And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Go it! Go IT, ye devil, you!" with your throat all clenched that way and your face as red as a turkey-gobbler's. And that second when they are going under the wire, and the horse you rather like is about a nose behind the other one that you despise - Oh, tedious, very tedious. Ho hum, Harry! If I wasn't engaged, I wouldn't marry. Did you think to put a saucer of milk out for the kitty before you locked up the house?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
He poured something from a bottle into a saucer and went back to Pacer with it. I followed him and stood outside. Wood seemed to be washing a sore in the
horse's mouth. Pacer winced a little, and Mr. Wood said: "Steady, steady, my
beauty; 'twill soon be over."英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》