United States or Jordan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He had long since got over the curious home-sickness which this separation had at first caused him, and as an opening to personal enjoyment the impulse for freedom had long since died within him; but his heart still vaguely hungered for the people who called him their King; and looking out into the pale sunshine that was now thinly buttering the surface of his prosperous capital, and listening to the perpetual tick and hum of its busy life, he knew that for him it was and must remain, except in an official sense, an unknown territory.
Send it to table hot, and eat it with butter. Or, you may bake it on a griddle, in small muffin rings, pulling the cakes open and buttering them when brought to table. Rub three quarters of a pound of fresh butter into a pound and a half of sifted flour; and make it into a dough with a little cold water.
"Shake?" asked Teddy, extending a hand. "No, I'm blest if I will! I'll not shake hands with anybody who has insulted me by buttering my face," growled the pilot. "You'll be better bred if you are well buttered," suggested Teddy. "Oh, help!" moaned The Fattest Woman on Earth. "Put him out! Put him out!" howled several voices in chorus. "Yes, that's the thing!
Caroline did not answer her husband immediately, but went on buttering her toast, and sipping her tea. She had never yet disobeyed any positive order that he had given, and she was now thinking whether she could obey this order; or, if not, how she would explain to him that she could not do so. "Well!" said he; "why do you not answer me? Will you write to him to-day?" "I had much rather not."
"Well, I did read later than I should. But tell me, Colonel Ashley, are you making any progress at all?" He did not answer for a moment. He seemed very much occupied in buttering a piece of roll trying to get the little dab of yellow in the exact center of the white portion. Then, when it was arranged to his satisfaction, he said: "I am making progress, that is all I can say now."
Before he finished his soup he received another shock. "Austin Gray is coming to New York," she said, coolly, buttering a cracker; "I have just had a telegram saying he will take a night train, and get in early in the morning eight o'clock, I believe. I think I'll go and meet him at the station.
Aunt Deb was never happy unless she was actively engaged in doing something or other. At present she was employed in cutting, buttering, or covering with jam, huge slices of bread, which she served out as soon as they were ready to the juvenile members of the family, while my eldest sister, Mary, was presiding at the tea-tray, and passing round the cups as she filled them.
The dead body of the burglar had been found on the shore and the whole coast was being searched for his accomplice. "That's poor old Hoky all right," murmured the Governor, buttering a piece of toast reflectively. "How indecent to prop up a corpse that way and take a snapshot merely to satisfy the morbid curiosity of a silly public!
Twice she required helping out by Dora, and on the second occasion something was said which Jem remembered afterwards with a stolid British memory. "Jem," said the girl, buttering a biscuit with a light hand, "you should write a diary. All great men write diaries which their friends publish afterwards."
'I don't quite know how, Charley, but I do. In spite of her unchanged manner of speaking, and her unchanged appearance of composure, she scarcely trusted herself to look at him, but kept her eyes employed on the cutting and buttering of his bread, and on the mixing of his tea, and other such little preparations.
Word Of The Day