The small individual dishes are pleasing, when served on a fresh doily.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
It would have done your eyes good to see Rearick adjust it carefully on a small doily in the exact center of the field, mince up to it and kick it like an old lady urging a setting hen off the nest.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
When he arrived Ann Elizabeth was cutting around the scalloped edge of a doily with embroidery scissors, the litter of cut glass and silver things out on the table and throwing up quite a brilliance under the electric lamp, and from the kitchen the slow sizzle of waiting chops.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst