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...This Month: 1 Spring Resolutions 3 Executive Director’s Message 4 Culinary Adventures: My Little Dumpling 5 Young at Heart: The Most Evil Villains in Children’s Literature 7 A Good Sport: Swimming in Synchrony 8 Library Evolution: The Changing Roles of the Librarian in the Digital Library Environment 9 Machiavelli: W...

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...nius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the M...

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...ety, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom th...

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...n. But he many sources document his passion for caviar, Bavarian sausages, liver dumplings, and ham, for instance. Moreover, the vegetarian movem...

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...e and she didn’t sound rural at all. She sounded, instead, a bit like me, the archangel Gabriel. ‘What is that brightness in the sky…’ I loved the dumplings her low life mother made and that my own mother would have spit out. Rehearsals improved, and I became so caught up in the creative process that I joined Caspar and Balthasar (but not Melchior who would have to c...

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...he one plate serving rule. It was a nice respite from eating too much of the dumpling snack of kimchee maundoo. The thought of eating meat did not agr... ...erted the cooked pork and the kimchee and pinched the dough of these cabbage dumplings into shape. He boiled a little bit of hot water in his rice co...

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.... Her stomach filled with roast beef so tender a baby could eat it, potato dumplings and rich mushroom gravy, butternut squash like she’d never tast...

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...umers driving up to their factory doorsteps, bypassing the retail stores: and dumpling that company’s cheap crap by the ton in front of that company’...

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...ctionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to o...

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...n of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a pa... ...s, and one of them a very healthy and well-developed idiot, who consumed a dumpling about eight inches in diameter every day, it was pretty well if th... ...intelligent mind, that Jonathan would take him back to skimmed milk, apple-dumpling, broad beans, and pork. And he had found a paradise in his brother...

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... at her bed-room window, on the point of descending to encounter the daily dumpling, which was the principal and the unvarying item of the midday meal... ... to meet the censorious eyes. They went in to Mrs. Sumfit’s shout that the dumplings were out of the pot: old Anthony bowed upon the announcement of h... ...ter Gammon was laboriously and steadily engaged in tightening himself with dumpling. He relaxed his exertions sufficiently to take this new burden on ... ...o Mrs. Sumfit for a help. The manifest evasion and mute declara- tion that dumpling said “mum” on that head, gave the farmer a quiet glow. “When you a... ...her—after dinner,” said the farmer. “ And we’re waitin’, are we, till them dumplings is finished?” she exclaimed, piteously, with a glance at Master G... ...work again. Mrs. Sumfit dropped back in her chair as from a blow. But even dumplings, though they resist so doggedly for a space, do ultimately submit... ...ove. Master Gammon cleared his plate. There stood in the dish still half a dumpling. The farmer and Rhoda, deeming that there had been a show of inhos... ...y with this forlorn remainder. The vindictive old man, who was as tight as dumpling and buttons could make him, refused it in a drooping tone, and wen... ...ow who’s attending to his business. If he’d seen you boil pota- toes, make dumplings, beds, tea, all that, you’d have had a chance. He’d have marched ...

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...he fare was of the most substantial kind — not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green ... ...r supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner. “My boy,” said the landlord, “you’ll ha... ...bolically funny, “the harpooner is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don’t — he eats nothing but steaks, and likes ’em rare.” “The... ...d I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurt... ...was dromedary beef; but I do not know, for certain, how that was. They had dumplings too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestru... ...gs too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestructible dumplings. I fancied that you could feel them, and roll them about in you a...

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...ubstantial kind—not only meat and potatoes, but dump- lings; good heavens! dumplings for supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himse... ...r supper! One young fellow in a green box coat, addressed himself to these dumplings in a most direful manner. “My boy,” said the landlord, “you’ll ha... ...olically funny, “the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don’t—he eats nothing but steaks, and he likes ‘em rare.” “Th... ... I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated 93 Herman Melville through the heredi... ...was dromedary beef; but I do not know, for certain, how that was. They had dumplings too; small, but substantial, symmetrically globular, and indestru...

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...Russian, shaped, featured, hued like the pot-boiled, round and tight young dumpling of our primitive boyhood, which smokes on the dish from the pot? A... ...ess. And Bobinikine turning to the complexion of the remainder of cupboard dumplings discovered in an emigrant’s house-to- let! And Semhians—I forget ...

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...ay that Mr. Woodhouse thinks the fruit thoroughly wholesome. We have apple-dumplings, how- ever, very often. Patty makes an excellent apple-dumpling. ...

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...t: where I should again like to be boiling my tea in a pocket-handkerchief dumpling, for want of a tea- pot. So to the old palace Inns and old monaste...

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... the present evening’s sale, which I offer to only you, the lovely Suffolk Dumplings biling over with beauty, and I won’t take a bid of a thousand pou...

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... after it while he was at his desk; and when our fellows saw a smoking hot dumpling on his plate at dinner, they knew with indignation who had sent it...

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...d Carey to his brother, who inter- preted it, “A few ruts this winter, but Dumpling knows all the bad places.” By this time Uncle Geoffrey came up, an... ... like to have a peep at Uncle Roger before going up to the house, and then Dumpling’s feelings won’t be hurt by passing the turn to Sutton Leigh.” Fre... ...ollard; and, in short, had been supremely happy. He “was just going to see Dumpling and Vixen’s puppies at Sutton Leigh, when—” “When I caught you, my...

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...ng her onions, changed buckets with her, and leaving her the empty, returned to the kitchen with the full. On another occasion 218 In The South Seas ... ...ursting surf and the tropic birds, the name of the Kaupoi—the rich man—was frequently repeated. I had made him the laughing-stock of the village in th... ...soda. Within the hour Richard was himself again; and I found him at the unfinished house, enjoying the double pleasure of directing Rubam and mak- ing...

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...stener — for fair she was, and young: though something of what is called the dumpling shape; but I don’t myself object to that — lighted a candle, gla...

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.... Jingle’s sanity. ‘Hush!’ said Mr. Jingle, in a stage whisper—’Large boy— dumpling face—round eyes—rascal!’ Here he shook his head expressively, and ... ...u riated multitude, prohibited a pugilistic contest between the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam? A duel in Ipswich, ma’am? I don’t think—I ... ...ind them at the Great White Horse. You recollect the case of the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suf folk Bantam, Grummer?’ Mr. Grummer intimated, by a re...