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Do you like sardines or canned salmon best?" "Sardines!" exclaimed both the girls. "That settles it. We haven't any ice, or we could have some lemonade. We'd better have chocolate. What do you say?" "It would be very nice, but we have no fire." "Fire enough. See here." He turned on the gas, and lighted a little stove over which the chocolate was made, condensed milk being at hand for use.
This hospital also contained one case of sardines. It was wonderful how widely spread became the fame of those sardines. Every British officer in Palestine seems to have licked his lips and looked forward to a meal of sardines when he should pass through Junction Station. Unfortunately, nobody could find those sardines.
I found the Germans dancing the german and the Dutch making dutch cheese and the Belgians combing their belgian hares and the Turks eating turkey and the Sardinians sardonically pickling sardines. Then I called on the Prince of Whales, and " "You mean the Prince of Wales," corrected Trot. "I mean what I say, my dear.
In Australia especially, and in America, India, and Africa, to a slighter extent, that definition of kindred by the family name actually includes alligators, smoke, paddy melons, rain, crayfish, sardines, and what you please.
"You lost many men?" "Thousands. What matter? we have many more to come. The Imperial Guard has landed, and the reserve, are at Constantinople." "Yes, and there are the 'Sardines," said another pointing to the new uniform. "Plenty of new arrivals. M. Soyer, the great cook, landed yesterday." "What on earth brings him?" "He is going to teach the troops to make omelettes and biscuit-soup."
The supper was sort of a makeshift of sardines and herring and crackers, with coffee for the older people. Dolly had no wish to be critical, but the viands were not tempting and she ate very little, being conscious all the time of an ever-growing lump in her throat. She tried hard to be merry and gay, but she couldn't feel the enthusiasm with which the others overflowed.
A tin of sardines or condensed milk once opened cannot be carried in a case liable to be upside down at any moment. There are however, some bottles with screw tops and india-rubber rings in which Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell send out jam. These are airtight and so very useful for when they are empty they can be cleaned and used for milk, sardines, or anything else again and again. Messrs.
Years passed, and Bessie was his occasional choice for a sleigh-ride when the long body of some farm wagon was placed on runners, and boys and girls young men and women, they almost thought themselves were packed in like sardines.
Smallpox, that is what it was, though how smallpox could come on board when there had been no known cases ashore when we left Rangiroa is beyond me. There it was, though, smallpox, a man dead, and three others down on their backs. There was nothing to be done. We could not segregate the sick, nor could we care for them. We were packed like sardines.
These chop boxes were of wood, with lids and locks, twenty of which were tin lined for use in packing specimens later in the trip, and all marked with bands of various colors to identify their contents. Two tins imperial cheese. One pound Ceylon tea. One three-quarter pound tin ground coffee. One four-pound tin granulated sugar. Two tins ox tongue. One tin oxford sausage. Two tins sardines.
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