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"I was so hungry," she said, apologetically, after Denzil had supplied her with generous slices of cake, and large spoonfuls of jam. "I did not know that Nonconformists had such nice things to eat." "Did you think we all lay in gaol to suffer cold and hunger for the faith that is in us, like that poor preacher at Bedford?" asked Lady Warner, bitterly.
Andrews raised his head, his blue eyes looking straight before him without seeing anything. Dropping the pencil, he leaned back against the wall and stretched his arms out. Taking the coffee bowl between his two hands, he drank s little. It was cold. He piled some jam on a piece of bread and ate it, licking a little off his fingers afterwards.
"They are always sending me pies and fresh eggs and jelly; they are always afraid of my starving to death." They began the meal again, and this time Julia joined her hostess, and really enjoyed her tea and bread and jam. It was dark now, and they drew the shades at the two street windows and turned on the electric light.
It is principally used as a fresh fruit, though it is also made into jam or jelly, and it often forms part of a fruit salad, taking the place of the granadilla. It has few pests, and is one of the easiest fruits to grow. Under this heading I will include all the Anonas, such as the sour sop, sweet sop, bullock's heart, and cherimoya.
"And, to make sure you won't catch cold though I don't see how you can on such a hot day I'll give you some bread and jam!" "Oh, goody!" cried Laddie, for he knew how nice the bread and jam made by Grandma Bell tasted. "I wish I'd fallen in," said Russ. "Well, you may have some bread and jam also," said his grandmother, laughing.
"I'll put on the steak. It will be ready in five minutes." "But I've had my dinner with Granny de Neuville." "Yes, I know!" "Did she stir yer tea with one front claw an' put jam on yer bread with the other?" asked Raften, rather coarsely. "Did she b'ile her pet Blackbird fur yer soup?" said Sam. Yan turned very red.
What is marvellous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vague after you have once just open'd the space of a peach-pit, and given audience to far and near, and to the sunset, and had all things enter with electric swiftness, softly and duly, without confusion or jostling or jam?
Tasmania cannot be said to have progressed much of late years, yet it does make progress, and is not now receding as it was when Sir C. Dilke visited it about 20 years ago. I do not know that any land is now allowed to go out of cultivation as was then the case. It has not been entirely its own fault either. The protective duties of Victoria have much checked the exportation of fruit and jam.
Sometimes a bunch of wild-flowers, sometimes birds' eggs, marbles, boxes of chalk, a packet of toffee or barley-sugar, a currant bun, a tin trumpet, a whistle, a jam tart, a penny pistol, and so on, till his mother declared she would have to stop taking them in, as they were getting such an accumulation of them. 'And how is my little fellow-soldier? asked Mr.
He seemed slightly exasperated, bent his dark eyes on her piercingly. "Are you trying to make me out as criticizing you in any way, Edith?" "Not at all " She paused. Bartholomew had uttered a grunt. She turned and saw that he had left his desk and was standing at the window. "What is it?" demanded Henry. "People," said Bartholomew, and then after an instant: "Whole jam of them.
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