They are then removed, by hundreds at a time, with a broad iron spatula, on which they are retained by the forefinger of the left hand.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
He held a spatula of aloe-wood in his hand wherewith to scratch his skin.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
Although he had no beard he had the cloak of a priest of Moloch on his shoulder, and in his belt that species of knife which they employed for cutting up the sacred meat, and which terminated, at the end of the handle, in a golden spatula.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert