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A large force of laborers hired by Major Burleigh at Gate City early in the spring had been sent to Warrior Gap under strong escort, and the unseasoned timber and fresh-cut logs were being rapidly dovetailed and mortised, and long wagon trains laden with stores and supplies, purchased by Major Burleigh's agents, were pushing out across the Platte.
One such toothless sufferer, a carpenter, having little ready money, offered to pay his physician in hay-rakes; and he took a revengeful delight in manufacturing the rakes of green, unseasoned wood. After a few days' use in the sunny fields, the doctor's rakes were as toothless as their maker.
Try your egg without salt. Please please try it without salt! HARRY: An egg demands salt. CLAIRE: 'An egg demands salt. Do you know, Harry, why you are such an unseasoned person? 'An egg demands salt. HARRY: Well, it doesn't always get it. CLAIRE: But your spirit gets no lift from the salt withheld. HARRY: Not an inch of lift. CLAIRE: And pleased so pleased with itself, for getting no lift.
The estate had only recently been put on to the new reformed system, and the new mechanism worked, creaking like an ungreased wheel, warping and cracking like homemade furniture of unseasoned wood. Nikolai Petrovitch did not lose heart, but often he sighed, and was gloomy; he felt that the thing could not go on without money, and his money was almost all spent.
But I say again, he ought to be married. 'That there may be two victims? Cecilia said it smiling. She was young in suffering, and thought, as the unseasoned and inexperienced do, that a mask is a concealment. 'Married settled; to have him bound in honour, said Mrs. Lespel.
Corporation securities were few and unseasoned; lands were liable to wear out and were painfully slow in liquidation; but slaves were a self-perpetuating stock whose ownership was a badge of dignity, whose management was generally esteemed a pleasurable responsibility, whose labor would yield an income, and whose value could be realized in cash with fair promptitude in time of need.
From the roof the tobacco hung in a fantastic decoration, shading from dull green to deep bronze, and appearing, when viewed from the ground below, to resemble a numberless array of small furled flags. On the hard earth floor there were three parallel rows of "unseasoned" logs which burned slowly day and night, filling the barn with gray smoke and the pungent odour of the curing tobacco.
The Thames, launched in 1815, was the first true steam-boat the river had seen. The old hoy, or lighter, was probably sloop rigged. Our enemies. Lamb refers here to the attacks of Blackwood's Magazine on the Cockneys, among whom he himself had been included. In the London Magazine he had written "unfledged" for "unseasoned." Gebir. This detestable Cinque Port.
Or peel and slice, leave unseasoned, and lay in the pan bacon has been cooked in, first pouring away most of the fat. Cook five minutes in a hot oven, and send to table with hot bread, crisp bacon and coffee for breakfast. A thick slice of banana, along with a thick slice of tart apple, both very lightly seasoned, makes a fine stuffing for squabs.
Therefore I adopted the system of raised beds common enough. Returning home, however, after a year's absence, I found my oak posts decaying unseasoned, doubtless, when put in. To prevent trouble of this sort in future, I substituted drain-pipes set on end; the first of those ideas which have won commendation from great authorities. Drain-pipes do not encourage insects.
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