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"I never played for gain of mine, or love of play," cried the old man fiercely. "My winnings would have been bestowed to the last farthing on a young sinless child, whose life they would have sweetened and made happy. But I never won." "Dear me!" said Quilp. "The last advance was £70, and it went in one night.
At last she said, in a softened tone, as if the remembrance of the Christmas legend had softened her surly thoughts and sweetened the bitter mood: "Perhaps I'm wrong to take on so. Perhaps it isn't God's fault that I and my children are deserted and starving.
The farmer's wife knew naught concerning the process for obtaining sugar, or else she might have sweetened her children's puddings from the watery liquid yielded by the sycamore, or greater maple an art well known to the aboriginal tribes of North America." "Does that mean Indians, Miss Harson?" asked Malcolm, with a wry face at the long word.
The air of a spoiled beauty which rested not ungracefully upon her was sweetened by her expression of natural simplicity and goodness. For an instant she stood listening in silence to the querulous pipes of the bird and the earnest exhortations of the teacher on the joys of cage life for both bird and lady.
This makes a very fine breakfast; it should be sweetened with real Lisbon sugar of a good quality. COLD CAUDLE. Boil a quart of spring water; when cold, add the yolk of an egg, the juice of a small lemon, six spoonfuls of sweet wine, sugar to taste, and syrup of lemons one ounce.
Virgie made up the fire, and the brass andirons took the cheerful flame upon them, while Vesta sweetened the lemonade after her father had cut and squeezed the lemons, and added some magnesia to make the drink foam. "Really," said Judge Custis, "this miserable den takes the rudimentary form of a home. I suppose there are now more comforts in his sight than Meshach's whole race ever collected.
So she grew with the wild, loving, studying, giving all her time. "I fed butterflies sweetened water and rose leaves inside the screen of a cellar window," Mrs.
"He had a lemonade stand at the baseball game last week, and I heard Doctor Streeter say to a friend: 'Come on, Bill, let's go over and get a glass, patronize the little fellow. The man said, 'No, thank you, doc, none of that weak circus stuff for me, acid and colouring matter and sweetened water. I've been an enterprising boy myself, and know how it's done.
He followed on, and watched the doughnuts being distributed to the merry party seated in a great ring like a very garland of youth under his trees; he saw them drink his sweetened water. "Don't you want some?" asked his wife's defiantly pleasant voice in his ear. "No, I don't want none," he returned. Finally, long before they had finished eating, he went home to the tavern.
Carmichael's excellent ministrations," which Papal Bull, being distributed to the furthest corner of the parish before nightfall, greatly lifted the Free Kirk and sweetened the blood of the Glen for years.
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