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...d a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner....

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...kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Fr... ...he and McT eague ate, and even brought away half loaves of bread, lumps of sugar, and fruit from the car conductors’ coffee- joint. She hid these pilf... ...too—all this year—all my life,” he suddenly cried. “I—I—I’ve forgotten the sugar.” “But I never take sugar in my tea.” “But it’s rather cold, and I’ve...

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... the cupboard, and I foresee that when we’re married you’ll dole me out my sugar by lumps.” She had replied that she rejoiced in his assumption that s... ...leam, re- verting a little. “What I don’t understand is—won’t you have any sugar?” “Yes, please.” “What I don’t understand,” she went on when she had ...

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...s 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 offer the slightest excitement?...

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... 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 ... ... meringues, sups on twelfth-cake, and fills up the intermediate hours with sugar-candy or peppermint—how is he to foresee the day of sad wisdom, when ... ... would not tell with great effect in any other medium than that of candied sugars, conserves, and pastry. Say what you will about the identity of the ... ...tful things in the way of drop-cakes, and he had the wid- est views of the sugar department; but in other directions he certainly felt hampered by the... ... poor Jacob, for David was not a young man to waste his jujubes and barley-sugar in giving pleasure to people from whom he expected nothing. But an id... ... But Jacob showed as much alacrity in obeying as a wasp shows in leaving a sugar-basin. Near David, he felt himself in the vicinity of lozenges: he ch... ...! But there was a new obstacle. Jacob had recently discovered a remnant of sugar-candy in one of his brother’s tail-pockets; and, since then, had cau-... ..., perhaps with an expectation that there would be a further development of sugar-candy after a longer or shorter interval. Now every one who has worn ... ...n held a point of honour by the families in Grimworth parish, to buy their sugar and their flannel at the shop where their fathers and mothers had bou...

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..., who was sent by the mar- ket-women to the Rue de Lombards where nuts for sugar- plums were to be found, heard from his friend Matifat that the fruit... ...ngy and disgusting premises. His predecessor, who sold molasses and coarse sugars, had left the stains of his dirty business upon the walls, in the co... ...tones of this court was a filthy and stinking black substance, left by the sugars and the molasses that once occupied it. Only one of the bedrooms had...

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...ement for an hour or two at a time except what they could get out of pawing at the gnats, or trying to sleep and not succeeding. However, they got a l... ...sh into it with an earthquake of applause. The result is that we rob ourselves of the sweetest part of the treat; we get the whis- key, but we don’t g... ... its two chief promoters, Louis the Poor in Spirit and his queen. We did not buy any wooden images of the Lion, nor any ivory or ebony or marble or ch... ...mals. Grand Total, 205. Rations, etc. Apparatus 16 Cases Hams 25 Spring Mattresses 2 Barrels Flour 2 Hair ditto 22 Barrels Whiskey Bedding for same 1 ... ...n, steeplelike rocks—were very peculiarly shaped. Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady’s finger; one m... ...in Hot egg-bread, Southern style. the ashes, Southern style, Hot light-bread, Southern style. served hot. Buttermilk. Iced sweet milk. Sliced tomatoes... ...he same way and of the same material. Fill with stewed dried apples; aggravate with cloves, lemon-peel, and slabs of citron; add two portions of New O... ...ttle of wine, or his hot cutlet and potatoes; young ladies chatted, or fanned them- selves, or wrought at their crocheting or embroidering; the studen...

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...weetness upon the world. This is only a way of telling you that first-rate sugar-cane is grown there. All the population of the Pearl lives for it and... ...ne is grown there. All the population of the Pearl lives for it and by it. Sugar is their daily bread, as it were. And I was coming to them for a carg... ... is their daily bread, as it were. And I was coming to them for a cargo of sugar in the hope of the crop having been good and of the freights being hi... ...own little town in an island one has never seen before? What were (besides sugar) the interests of that crumb of the earth, its gossip, its topics of ... ... but mean- time he gave me, casually as it were, a complete account of the sugar crop, of the local business houses, of the state of the freight marke... ...at scale of all sorts of goods. For instance, the whole supply of bags for sugar was practically in his hands. This last fact I did not learn till aft... ...he brothers Jacobus was the subject of excited comment in the whole of the sugary Pearl of the Ocean I wanted to know why I was blamed. “I have been t... ...re pronounced crime—and that only amongst the imported coolie labourers on sugar estates or the negroes of the town. But in Europe these things were b... ...ave been unsafe. The horrid emana- tions might have flavoured the cargo of sugar. They seemed strong enough to taint the very ironwork. In addition Mr...

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...had been anxious to wrap up the solid cake of this business in a casing of sugar of romance. Mrs. Thompson would not have the sugar but the cake might...

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...ught almost an infant to his chambers in Brick Court, and he gave you some sugar-candy, for the doctor was always good to children. That gentleman who... ...ies, may you have plucked pretty giftlings from it; and out of the cracker sugar- plum which you have split with the captain or the sweet young curate... ... midnight (si parva licet). He watches and thinks. He pounds the sparkling sugar of benevo- lence, the plums of fancy, the sweetmeats of fun, the figs...

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... had left the bilious pills out for her man, all nicely covered with maple sugar just ready to take, Nathan had come in and swallowed them for all the... ...st the wall, and a cheerful fire, of the 93 James Fenimore Cooper hard or sugar maple, was burning on the hearth. The latter was the first object tha... ...d, rather angrily , to Richard: “How often have I forbidden the use of the sugar maple in my dwelling! The sight of that sap, as it exudes with the he... ...es and drinkables enough in the house for a body’s con- tent—a little more sugar, Benjamin, in the glass —for Squire Jones is an excellent provider. B... ...ng more or less about it. T ake enough, woman, to color the water. Here’ s sugar. It’s a sweet tooth, that fellow that you hold on upon yet, Mistress ... ...n Bess,” continued the indefatigable Rich- ard, “we will stop and see the ‘sugar bush’ of Billy Kirby; he is on the east end of the Ransom lot, making... ...ugar bush’ of Billy Kirby; he is on the east end of the Ransom lot, making sugar for Jared Ransom. There is not a better hand over a kettle in the cou... ...e ever seen him do it with my own eyes; but that is the say. And I’ve seen sugar of his making, which, maybe, wasn’t as white as an old topgallant sai... ...ven the party with the sounds of his experienced voice. “This is your true sugar weather, ‘Duke,” he cried; “a frosty night and a sunshiny day. I warr...

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...an. “I’ll try not to have a single fine, and I’ll not buy a single lump of sugar-candy, for I do want poor Hannah to have her pig.” 11 Yo n g e “And ... ...nd Susan. “Here, Davie!” holding out to him an amber-like piece of barley- sugar. “I don’t want your stuff,” said David roughly. “Y ou’ve spent all aw... ...d finger sauce,” but not before John was stretching out a hand glazed with sugar, and calling out, “Oh, give it to me!” and as it disappeared in his b... ...,” said Susan, seeing him about to begin to cry, and offering him her last sugar-plum. “I don’t want sugar-plums, I want barley-sugar,” said John devo... ...nie, that Christabel turned round and declared that she should not let the sugar-plums be touched for a week if another word were said about them. She...

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...men—and no wonder, for their heads took off, and showed them to be full of sugar-plums; there were fiddles and drums; there were tambourines, books, w... ... and which made tea, nectar. And if the two legs of the ineffectual little sugar-tongs did tumble over one another, and want purpose, like Punch’s han... ... tongues, pre- serves, fruits, confectionaries, jellies, neguses, bar- ley-sugar temples, trifles, crackers—eat all you can and pocket what you like—a...

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...y gracious there warn’t anything in it but a couple of little pieces of loaf sugar! That’s the reason he could set there and snooze all night so comfo... ...ll, I got my boots on, and we went down and slipped in and laid the paper of sugar on Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain 18 the berth, and sat down ... ...f brim stove pipe, very high, and not smooth, with a round top — just like a sugar loaf. “Did you notice if its hair was the same, Huck?” “No — seems ...

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... those already noticed in Mr. Inglis’s garden, and the breadfruit tree and sugar-cane, and a beauti- ful bright flower of scarlet colour, a convolvulu... ...rst half-mile we walked along the beach among cocoa-nut trees, bananas and sugar- canes, the sun, not yet above the horizon, tingeing the light clouds... ...ge Vanua Lava, Valua or Saddle Isle, a long narrow ridge of hills, Mota or Sugarloaf Island, an equally descriptive name; Star Island, and Santa Maria... ...as not possible to get into the one landing-place in the wall round Mota’s sugar-loaf, but there was an exchange of civilities with the Saddleites, an... ...h a most distressing difficulty of breathing. He proved to have a piece of sugar cane in his throat, which made every breath agony, and worked a small... ...because all my stores are gone. I have not a morsel of biscuit or grain of sugar left, and am reduced to native fare, which does not suit my English c... ...rt; no hold, no storeroom, no place where a mixed mess of spilt flour, and sugar, and treacle, and old rotten potatoes, and cocoa-nut parings and bits... ... Cross’ sailed on the 18th. Patteson took with him a good store of coffee, sugar, and biscuits, being uncer- tain whether he should or should not agai... ... and said my evening prayers. Up at 5.30 A.M., and walked up a part of the Sugar Loaf peak, from which the island de- rives its English name, and foun...

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...dventurous, trouble some ways. While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were fu... ...ut clodding Sid, and did not seem to mind it in the least. He tried to steal sugar under his aunt’s very nose, and got his knuckles rapped for it. He ... ....” “Well, Sid don’t torment a body the way you do. You’d be always into that sugar if I warn’t watching you.” Presently she stepped into the kitchen, ... ...e stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar bowl — a sort of glory ing over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable.... ...ght remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve. Tuesday the boys had the same ill luck. Also... ...antern, and a large towel to blindfold it with. He hid the lantern in Huck’s sugar hogs head and the watch began. An hour before midnight the tavern ...

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... The denial was general. None had stolen anything—not money, anyway—a little sugar, or cake, or honey, or some thing like that, that “Marse Percy wou... ... Tom got all the delicacies, Chambers got mush and milk, and clabber without sugar. In consequence Tom was a sickly child and Chambers wasn’t. Tom was... ...kitchens where the servants would share their meals with her, and also steal sugar and apples and other dainties for her to carry home— or give her a ... ...aid hid in de cellar of a ole house dat’s burnt down, daytimes, en robbed de sugar hogsheads en grain sacks on de wharf, nights, to git somethin’ to e...

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...tails behind. Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating bar ley sugar, and waiting to be ninety. When he saw the pea cocks, followed by ...

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...r is being of your own sex any safeguard, as I have reason, in the form of sugar-tongs to know, for that lady (and a fine woman she was) got me to run... ... her person and being so strict in her spirits that conquered the tea-and- sugarest gentleman (for he weighed them both in a pair of scales every morn...

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...ry, (henceforth commissioners of the Treasury) be so good as to dispense the sugar-plumbs of the Government with a more impartial and frugal hand. Y e...

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...g Mrs. Monarch, who sat vague and silent, whether she would have cream and sugar, and putting an exaggerated simper into the question. She had tried i...

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...e veil, and bethink you of a fitting verse, a seemly compliment,—something sugary.’ Then Boolp smoothed his head, and was bothered; and tapped it, and... ...s, and smelt the smell of his musk-scented sweetmeats and lemon sweets and sugared pistachios that are delicious to crunch between the teeth. My mouth... ...t was darkened for awhile. Then they took to fling- ing about pellets of a sugared preparation, and reciting verses in praise of jovial living, challe... ...d himself in devices and inventions, and his genius urged him to depict in sugars and pastes the entire adventures of Shibli Bagarag in search of the ...