Gordon and Waynefleet sat before the two big empty cases that served for table, and Mattawa was Ladling pork on to their plates from a blackened frying-pan, Nasmyth sat down and ate hastily, while the light from the lamp hanging beneath the roof-beams fell upon his face, which was gaunt and roughened by the sting of bitter spray and frost.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Ladling out the soup is great fun.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
"Yes," resumed Charles, Ladling out the punch, "thou hast wit enough to perceive that our generals are imbeciles or traitors; that gredin Bonaparte has sold the army for ten millions of francs to Bismarck, and I have no doubt that Wimpffen has his share of the bargain.
"The Parisians, Book 11."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton