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I saw him tap his forehead with his finger, point his thumb toward the tent, and say to the boys outside: "He's got 'em! Head all wrong! Wants me to make him milk toast, poached eggs, green tea, and currant jelly. And I offered him bacon. Sow belly for a sick man! There isn't a loaf of bread in camp. Not an egg within five miles. And milk! currant jelly!
At noon an old woman brought her some food, which, consisting of fish and poached game, was better than might have been expected in such a place, and what would have been deemed a feast under her father's roof.
In the third act she was threatening to return home to her mother, which, if I may judge from finding you here with all your clothes on, is also the idea that has occurred to you." "But you you were so awful," whimpered Mrs. Korner. "What did I do?" questioned Mr. Korner. "You came hammering at the door " "Yes, yes, I remember that. I wanted my supper, and you poached me a couple of eggs.
But it is surely a more massive and important fact that if he is a poached egg he is not free to eat, drink, sleep, walk, or smoke a cigarette. Similarly you may say, if you like, that the bold determinist speculator is free to disbelieve in the reality of the will.
They seemed to know the every kind of dish that could be made with eggs, boiled eggs with cheese and butter; with tomatoes; poached; fried eggs; various omelettes with ham and kidney, jam or rum; the rum set afire and flaming with sparkling lights. And then there were more important dishes still which only the head cooks were handling ... pastries and delicious creams.
You might fry the eggs and toast the bread. I guess that will do for this morning." "Yes, sir, thank you," answered Zephania, politely. "Wouldn't you rather have the eggs poached?" "Er why, yes, if you can do it." "I can cook eggs eleven ways," said Zephania, proudly. "Are you going to eat breakfast in here or in there?" She nodded past Wade at the sitting-room. "Well, what do you think?"
His voice, lusty and clear as a bell, was ringing out a strange melody. I went over to him. I was looking over his shoulder, yet he seemed not to have heard me, so intent was he on his song and in his work. He was toasting the carcass of a poached rabbit, the wet skin of which lay at his side. He was a dirty, ragged rascal, but he seemed happy and his voice was good.
A hen had something was going to be the mother of a large family of them. A hen had something to sing about all right, and so had we, when we thought of poached eggs and fried chicken.
He led Glen back to the long table of smooth boards laid on trestles which stood on the grassy level. The scouts were helping themselves from great bowls filled with eggs cooked in the shell, or from large platters on which eggs fried or poached were served, according to their preference. Bob was a good cook and gave them their choice.
You must not produce a veal cutlet from your tail-coat pocket. You must not conceal poached eggs about your person. You must not, like a kind of conjurer, produce baked potatoes from your hat. In short, the canvasser must not feed the voter in any way.
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