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...ola! NICOLA (dropping a log, and turning). Sir! PETKOFF. Did you spoil any pastry of Miss Raina’s this morning? NICOLA. You heard Miss Raina say that ... ... thou- sand four hundred eider-down quilts. I have ten thousand knives and forks, and the same quantity of dessert spoons. I have six hundred servants...

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...Jock. “Don’t flatter yourself; he wouldn’t think of it.” “How much did you fork out?” asked Bobus. Allen declaimed in the last refinement of Eton slan... ...twice amused the household by figures executed by her dexterous fingers in pastry or in butter; and in the empty house, in her old studio, amid remnan... ...and as we were coming home, a poor woman besought us to buy two toast- ing-forks and a mouse-trap, by way of ornament to brandish in the streets. She ... ...u’ll stay, won’t you?” “If Mrs. Brownlow will let me. I hope your toasting-fork woman has not spirited her away?” “Under the eyes of your horse and ma... ...ays of dagger and of bowl, Of dungeon and of strife. Oh! for the days when forks were not, On skewers came the meat; When from one trencher ate three ...

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...ast Jim became Mr. Hall, and took up his quarters in the land of knives and forks and tea cups. Sunday, October 5th. It was our morning watch; w... ...f the first family in California. Our steward was ashore three days, making pastry and cake, and some of the best of our stores were sent off with hi... ...anner in which sailors eat, on board ship. There are neither tables, knives, forks, nor plates, in a forecastle; but the kid (a wooden tub, with iron... ...e Coulterville trail, the peaks of Sierra Nevada in sight, across the North Fork of the Merced, by Gentry’s Gulch, over hills and through canons, to ...

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...oderately flattened, opening their jaws, extending their arms, and holding forks, chains or javelins in their hands; while the blue of the sea stretch... ...attered canvas looked like dim ships half lost in the breakers. Cuirasses, forks, clari- ons, pieces of wood, iron and brass, corn, straw, and garment... ..., and formed of a yielding copper blade. They handled cutlasses which were forked into several branches like antelopes’ horns, bills fas- tened to the... ...ls, and cushions; the battlements were stopped up with mats; and a line of forks and blades, fixed upon sticks, might be distinguished among the crane... ...rpse he would perhaps have gone away . He doubled the outposts, he planted forks at the foot of the rampart, he drove caltrops into the ground, and he... ...be bounding amid the flowers; there were shells filled with forcemeat; the pastry had symbolic shapes; when the covers of the dishes were removed dove...

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...alism;—and over all, rising, as Ark of their Covenant, the grim Patibulary Fork ‘forty feet high;’ which also is now nigh rotted. Add only that the Fr... ...nd never any second time. Distracted country! Con- tention hisses up, with forked hydra-tongues, wheresoever poor Lomenie sets his foot. ‘Let a Comman... ...o to procure a supply of food. Swift messengers fly, to all bakers, cooks, pastrycooks, vintners, restorers; drums beat, accompanied with shrill vocal... ... des- patches, to the rigorous Quartermaster: the very Ostlers have stable-forks and flails. The rigorous Quartermaster, half-saddled, cuts out his wa... ... Retardation, Patriotism is good; but so like- wise is peaceable baking of pastry, and sleeping in whole skin.—Hapless Beaurepaire stretches out his h... ...Crypto- Royalism, such a Law seemed needful: and they order it, as pacific Pastrycooks, not as heroic Patriots would,—To surren- der! Beaurepaire stri... ...And so, in some half- hour it is done; and the multitude has all departed. Pastrycooks, coffee-sellers, milkmen sing out their trivial quotidian cries...

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...s meat has surely been used for soup,” said Miss Bartlett, laying down her fork. “I want so to see the Arno. The rooms the Signora promised us in her ... ...and mementoes—florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and ...

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...at, a’ that we hae is cauld eneugh,—how- beit, maist of the cauld meat and pastry was gien to the poor folk after the ceremony of interment, as gude r... ...ncy of their outward appearance, clean trenchers, cutty spoons, knives and forks, sharp, burnished, and prompt for action, which lay all dis- played a... ... my napkin, and eat them to my supper at e’en, for I am wearied of Mysie’s pastry and nonsense; ye ken land- ward dainties aye pleased me best, Marion...

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...re more than a dozen people in that drawing-room, mostly women eating fine pastry and talking passionately. It might have been a Carlist committee mee... ... never looked openly at any one of us. Whenever he laid down his knife and fork he would throw himself back and start retailing in a light tone some P...

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... passeth Lent. At the morris dance. At the forked oak. At feeby. ... ...For if I sup not well, large, round, and amply, my sleeping is not worth a forked turnip. All the night long I then but doze and rave, and in my slumb... ... I were at this present hour in the close at Seuille, or at Innocent’s the pastry-cook over against the painted wine-vault at Chinon, though I were to... ...at, by means of large engines that were round about it in rows, it throw’d forked iron bars and four-squared steel bolts; and in its hold two hundred ... ...th andirons, racks, fire-shov- els, frying-pans, kettles, grid-irons, oven forks, tongs, drip- ping pans, brooms, iron pots, mortars, pestles, all in ...