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...ir own, they cannot obtain loans for farming. In Ban Dong, only peanut and maize remain, as they can be grown in dry soil. The only legal means for vi... ...arely had furniture other than a cabinet with glazed doors, where bedding, dishes and the offering bowl were kept. Meals were taken on the floor sitti... ... replaced by soy. In Ban Dong, villagers are encouraged to grow peanut and maize, which has also become one of the crops grown in Lampang in the last ... ...ent to neighbouring villages. Today, the necessary food must be bought and dishes borrowed, and many dozen bottles of spirits bought, 10 bottles is th... ...home, we collect the things that were borrowed from the temple, plates and dishes, perhaps chairs and other things. They are returned to the temple. T... ...tion. Everything's gone well for that young couple. Old people say that if dishes get broken at a wedding, it's a bad omen, means an accident or divor... ...sn't made any difference. I think such a belief is odd, because of course dishes get broken easily at big occasions. The groom arrives in a processio...

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...heel to make yarn, a weaving machine to make clothes, a kiln to make pots and dishes… How much time would you spend making your tools and then usin... ...aculate. Your house must be immaculate. Your food must be immaculate. Your dishes must be immaculate. Your furniture must be immaculate. Your ru... ... scum: that sold caravans of slaves and gold to the Egyptians. The Mayan maize god was the first aboriginal god of the first south American sett... ...nds of years older than once thought. Why did the maze of the Minos, and the maize god of the Mayans coincide historically? Why did they exist at t...

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...ate in plenty, having oil and wine and sausage in the house, and plenty of maize-meal, he was glad with the Lord. If he ate meagrely, of poor polenta,... ...tle territory. The household no longer receives its food, oil and wine and maize, from out of the earth in the motion of fate. The earth is annulled, ... ... because of it, or only afraid lest visitors would dislike it. She put the dishes in order, set me my plate, quickly, ner- vously, and was gone again,...

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... WAS THE DAUGHTER of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just ... ...t ask a stately god- dess, five foot ten in her shoes, to clean plates and dishes. So she played with the Chaplain’s children and took classes in the ... ...sh-formers, and fi- brins, and glucose and the nitrogenous constituents of maize and lucerne, Nafferton raised the question of expense. By this time P...

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...man life in which I shared; my dinner at the Albion, where I had a hundred dishes at command, and could banquet as delicately as the wizard Michael Sc... ...ook. Or, if so, she should have meddled only with the richest and spiciest dishes, and such as are to be tasted at banquets, between draughts of intox... ... white villages, and past orchards of ruddy apples, and fields of ripening maize, and patches of woodland, and all such sweet rural scenery as looks t...

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...aboured with on- ions; then with a smoking pilaff of rice:several of which dishes I can pronounce to be of excellent material and flavour. When the g... ...r mis- eries. Near them lies the fruitful land of El Guanee. It is rich in maize and cotton, in sesame and barley; it is worth a thousand purses; but ... ...au poivre; but J. ’s cook did not furnish us with either of those historic dishes. And for drink, we had water freshened in the porous little pots of ...

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...ing to and fro on the hotel business; black waiters cross and recross with dishes in their hands; two great dogs are playing upon a mound of loose bri... ... half past twelve, supper about six. At each, there are a great many small dishes and plates upon the table, with very little in them; so that althoug... ...et root, shreds of dried beef, complicated entanglements of yellow pickle; maize, Indian corn, apple sauce, and pumpkin. Some people fancy all these l... ...ts. Dining alone with my wife in our own room, one day, I counted fourteen dishes on the table at once. In the old French portion of the town, the tho...

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...y people preparing large messes of grated yam and cocoa-nut in flat wooden dishes. At the long oblong-shaped drum sat the performers, two young men, e... ...being anxious to show me every attention, eating away at all sorts of made dishes, puddings, &c., and lounging about just as I please on soft red velv... ...), sweet potato, sugar-cane, ba- nana, almond, orange, pine-apple, coffee, maize. Only co- coa-nut and bread-fruit are wanting, that natives of Melane... ...tities of butter. We grow, of course, our own potatoes and vegetables, and maize, &c., for our cows. The farm and dairy work affords another opportuni... ... ought at once to feed ourselves, and soon to export wool, potatoes, corn (maize I mean), &c. ‘I never forget about the idea of a chapel. At present t... ...rprised to see what was done. Some three and a half acres of fine kumaras, maize, yams, growing well; a yam of ten pounds weight, smooth and altogethe... ...weet po- tatoes are excellent. The ordinary potato does very well too; and maize, vegetables of all sorts, many fruit trees, all the semi-tropical thi... ...ic house) to see the tauma prepared for the feast. There were thirty-eight dishes. The largest, about four feet long, stood nearly three feet high. I ...

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...hread on stiff ultramarine tis- sue, which she hung as a panel against the maize wall; a couch with pillows of sapphire velvet and gold bands; 72 Mai... ...n earth. She works from ten to eighteen hours a day. She has to wash slimy dishes and dirty clothes. She tends the children and runs to the door with ... ... the glass cover of the dressing-table was a menu with the most enchanting dishes: breast of guinea hen 219 Sinclair Lewis De Vitresse, pommes de ter... ...I feel so free. And to have new kinds of food, and different pat- terns of dishes and linen, and not worry about whether the pudding is being spoiled!... ...ouched her knee. She sprang up, started noisily and needlessly to wash the dishes. He helped her. He was too lazy to adventure further—and too used to... ...she could express imagination—but now he wanted only his round of favorite dishes: steak, roast beef, boiled pig’s-feet, oatmeal, baked apples. Becaus...

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...e kitchen-ranges, gas and coal, and the ap- paratus for warming plates and dishes, the whole of the bat- tery is on the model of the Duc d’Ariane’s—fi... ...h Mr. Sowerby praised the menu, Mr. Barmby, Peridon and Catkin named other dishes, there was the right after-dinner ring in Victor’s ears, thanks to t... ...owned victory. And see the long valley-sweeps of the hang- ing meadows and maize, and lower vineyards and central tall green spires! Walking beside yo... ...n of mind produced by 344 One of Our Conquerors a surfeit of unaccustomed dishes, upon a physical system inspired by the traditions of exercise, and ...

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...m those of the same old crowd round the custom-house counter, and same old dishes on the boarding-house table, with characters un- like those of the s... ...rer still the same; or rather, by his noble qualities, grew up like golden maize in the encouraging sun of good opinions. But still the latent wonder ...

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...were a model; and there were hot closets on the office staircase, that the dishes might not cool, as our Scottish phrase goes, between the kitchen and... ...et-de-place, and even the muleteer of Spain, who piques himself on being a maize- eater, and whose honour is not to be questioned without danger, I do...

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...nce to try what can be done, hunting up nurses, whom I can’t get, stirring dishes of skim milk, trying to get the funerals over to-morrow morning by d... ... who managed it,’ but which threw a beautiful light upon the various glass dishes, tubes, and slides, and the tall brass microscope that T om was said... ...althy situation—fertile land—where a colossal fortune might be realized in maize, eighties, sections, specu- lations. It was all addressed to her, and... ...e in forest open- ings, with fields where the lovely spring green of young maize charmed the eye. At last the road grew desolate. There were a few pat...

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... Indians coming miles to market with a bundle of sugar-cane or a basket of maize worth about threepence, are well aware that heaps of shining gold lie... ...ing me hastily that the fel- low had been detected putting poison into the dishes at supper. But I remember distinctly he was shriek- ing for mercy, w...

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...n of her frame from the death-trance. Carlo and Luciano fell hungrily upon dishes of herb- flavoured cutlets, and Neapolitan maccaroni, green figs, gr... ... They lied. Battle and slaughter they promised me, and en- emies like ripe maize for the reaping-hook. I would have had them in thick to my hands. I w...

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...ere was a good, true woman—so they are, most, in Italy! She gave him food; maize-bread and wine, sometimes meat; sometimes a bottle of good wine. When... ...ouse. “On the whole, though there is no harm in your praising particu- lar dishes, as you do at home, it is better in society to say nothing on those ...

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...asts, wheaten porridge, beans and barley, and snails dressed with cumin on dishes of yellow amber. 5 Flaubert Afterwards the tables were covered with... ...asses of brass. Every kind of scintillation flashed from the gem-incrusted dishes. The crateras with their borders of convex mirrors multiplied and en... ...around to devour by sight what they could not take. Others walked amid the dishes on the purple table covers, breaking ivory stools, and phials of T y... ...ropped from their blackened boughs from time to time into the midst of the dishes. Drunken soldiers snored open-mouthed by the side of the corpses, an... ...thage. Piles of lances were heaped up in the country towns like sheaves of maize. Cattle and money were sent off. Matho speedily paid the Mercenaries ... ... cothurni or cloaks, with their diamond-covered fingers wandering over the dishes, and their large earrings hanging down among the flagons,—all fat an...

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...See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter’s hut, the flat boat, the maize leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village, See, on... ...in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers? In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out ... ...ugh land in the fall for winter sown crops, To plough land in the spring for maize, To train orchards, to graft the trees, to gather apples in the fal... ...the lemon and fig, Welcome are lands of gold, Welcome are lands of wheat and maize, welcome those of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, W... ...e plenteous winterwork of pork packing, Flour works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded bar... ... but for thee O Powerful, not a scythe might swing as now in security, Not a maize stalk dangle as now its silken tassels in peace. Under thee only th... ...d every day, they became part of him. The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper table, The mother with mild words, clean her cap and...

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... the effect was terrible. Corn was in such plenty—Indian-corn, that is, or maize—that it was not worth the farmer’s while to pre- pare it for market. ... ... man requires includes three hot meals, with a choice from about two dozen dishes at each. From St. Paul there are two waterfalls to be seen, which we... ...llinois, and to learn by eyesight something of the crops of corn or Indian maize which are produced upon the land. Had that gentleman told me that we ... ...k day and Sunday, day and night, incessantly—rivers of wheat and rivers of maize ever running. I saw the men bathed in corn as they distributed it in ... ...s without transhipment of their cargo. I have said above that corn—meaning maize or Indian- corn—was to be bought at Bloomington, in Illinois, for ten...

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...f the kind you can only come by if you know the wine and the man. A little maize-wrapped fig of clotted Ma- deira cigars went with the wine, and the r... ...t. It’s—it’s a family fail- ing.’ He turned to explore among the hot-water dishes on the sideboard, rejoicing that she did not know—she did not know. ...

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... be fixed in the high ways where he had seen a clear spring,” and “brazen dishes were chained to them to refresh the weary sojourner, whose 120 AWee... ...g and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as pal 174 AWeeko... ...ted one to another, that you think they must choke one another,—vineyards, maize, mulberry trees, apples, pears, quinces, and nuts. The dwarf elder th...

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...cake, and a rice cake, jam tarts, lemon tarts, and mince-pies—two enormous dishes. She was fin- ishing cooking—Spanish tarts and cheese-cakes. Every- ... ...went round the back, he saw Miriam kneeling in front of the hen-coop, some maize in her hand, biting her lip, and crouching in an intense atti- tude. ... ...et none of her movements seemed quite the movement. Often, when wiping the dishes, she would stand in bewilderment and chagrin because she had pulled ... ...e carved. They talked all the time with unflagging zest. Then he wiped the dishes she had washed, and they went out down the fields. There was a brigh...