There hasn't been a party at Barn Elms for forty years, that they haven't done it, and I always borrow Jane Temple's salad-bowl and punch-ladles whenever I have company.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
But there should be a row of large forks, a row of large knives, a row of small ones, a row of table-spoons, sauce-ladles, dessert- spoons, fish-slice and fork, a few tumblers, rows of claret, sherry, and Madeira glasses, and the reserve of dinner-plates.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
What shall I hand out first, the spoons or the ladles?
"Europa's Fairy Book"
Joseph Jacobs