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We were jammed on the deck like sardines in a box. No one cared. At last the boat pulled out. Men and women were still jumping for it, only to fall into the water and probably drown." The members of the Metropolitan Opera Company, of New York, were in San Francisco at this time, and nearly all of these famous singers, known all over the world, suffered from the great disaster.
Biscuit and cake and pickles and 'desecrated' vegetables and canned peaches and sardines and jam and coffee! freight cars and wagons and storehouses just filled with jam and coffee and canned peaches and cigars and " "I wish that fool would hush! I wasn't hungry before!"
Inefficient even in plundering, he found himself possessed of but a handful of crackers, a tin of sardines a comestible he had never seen before and did not like when he tasted it and a bottle of what he thought wine but proved vinegar. Disgusted, he moved to the next wagon, overswarmed like the first by grey ants. This time it was ale, unfamiliar still, but sufficiently to his liking. "Gawd!
You've met Carolyn; she's a jolly girl to know, and she told me to bring you if possible." Evelyn dropped into a chair. "Oh, how I should love to go!" she said. "I never went on a sleigh-ride like that in my life. Do you go all together in a big load?" "Yes a regular prairie-schooner of a sleigh. Holds a dozen of us, packed like sardines, so nobody can get cold.
He scooped up one of the sacks, darted behind the bar, brushed the sandwiches and most of the cans of corned beef and sardines into it, and then slung it over his left shoulder with his left hand. "The sheriff will return the money that was taken from here," he said coolly as he walked briskly to the front door.
She's for all the world like a lad put into petticoats. I should think there's a-goin' to be a feast over in Newport Street. A tin o' sardines, four bottles o' ginger-beer, two pound o' seed cake, an' two pots o' raspberry! Eh, she's a queer 'un! I can't think where she gets her money from either. 'It's a pity to see Thyrza going about with her so much, said Mary, gravely.
Line the salad bowl with crisp lettuce leaves; fill with the mixture; sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Pour over a mayonnaise dressing and garnish with anchovy fillets. Egyptian Salad. Mix highly seasoned cold cooked rice with some grated onion, chopped parsley and chives; add 2 dozen fine cut French sardines.
We had a wretched journey up to London, packed as tight as sardines in a tin, much to the disgust of Carr, who accompanied me to town, and who, with his usual thoughtfulness, had in vain endeavored to keep the carriage to ourselves, by liberal tips to guards and porters.
Therefore, during one of those leisure periods in which Mick and Dick were at work, he wrote his letter, with the paper on his knees, squatting down just within his tent on a deal case which had contained boxes of sardines, bottles of pickles, and cans of jam. For now, in their prosperity, they had advanced somewhat beyond the simple plenty of the frying-pan. It was a difficult letter to write.
"His wife's been making a row in the shop again disgraceful scene talk of the 'ole neighbourhood. She began throwing things at customers, and somebody as was badly hit on the jaw with a tin of sardines complained to the police. We shall be rid of him very soon, you'll see, sir." This gave Warburton small satisfaction, but he kept his human thoughts to himself, and presently went home.
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