dividing-spoon

Updated: May 1, 2025

So speaking, he thrust out his right hand across the table, and shook our hero by the fist, with such violence of civility, as proved very grievous to a French marquis, who, in helping himself to soup, was jostled in such a manner, as to overturn the dividing-spoon in his own bosom.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01

So speaking, he thrust out his right hand across the table, and shook our hero by the fist, with such violence of civility, as proved very grievous to a French marquis, who, in helping himself to soup, was jostled in such a manner, as to overturn the dividing-spoon in his own bosom.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete