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We do not feel we should eat off gold plate, if our people go hungry.
"Shouldn't wonder if she drove six white horses, ate off gold plate, and wore diamonds and point lace every day.
"I couldn't... I mean, I don't eat off gold plates myself.
Philbrick said he used to have bushels of diamonds and emeralds before the war, and that he used to eat off gold plate.
Royalty was affable, the dinner short but superb, served and eaten off gold plate, at a rate which suited the impression that there really wasn't a moment to spare.
At dinner, in the grand hall, a table which could have seated eighty had been neatly partitioned off with a dozen flowerpots so that it became a comfortable dining area for thirty, who ate off gold plates while eleven musicians played Mozart.
But they'd been thrown together like twigs in a whirlpool, and had yielded to the inevitable . . . When he was a little boy, Sam Vimes had thought that the very rich ate off gold plates and lived in marble houses.
On these occasions, 150 or more guests in formal "white tie and decorations", including tiaras for women, may dine off gold plate.
Here was a dictator - as this reporter can attest - who kept caged leopards in his garden, dined off gold plates and repelled insurgents with the ready help of the United States Air Force and the French Foreign Legion, even as the African bush seemed to be reclaiming his decaying capital.