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He sometimes tries to enlist the sympathy and attention of a chance acquaintance in details of the whistling prowess of his best canary or the dimensions of his largest beetroot; he scarcely recognises himself as the man who was once spoken about and pointed out as the owner of the Seventh Pullet.
The angry girl's face grew even redder, so that now she resembled no longer a carrot but a wet beetroot. The only person in the room to be refreshingly and youthfully indignant, and all aflame with a deep anger, she looked truly beautiful in her ingenuous exasperation. "Here is something new!" she cried. "Whispering is forbidden!
'Do you arrest us, friend? asked Otto, smiling. 'Arrest you? I? exclaimed the man. 'For what does your Highness take me? Why, sir, I make sure there is not a man in Grunewald would lay hands upon you. 'O, many, many, said the Prince; 'but from you, who were bold with me in my greatness, I should even look for aid in my distress. The miller became the colour of beetroot.
Sixty hectares, i.e. nearly 150 acres, are planted with wheat, and two-thirds of that superficies with beetroot. The young corn was as advanced as in June with us, some kinds of richer growth than others, and showing different shades of green, each tract absolutely weedless, and giving evidence of highest cultivation. Fourteen hectolitres per hectare of corn is the average, forty the maximum.
He sometimes dined off bread, the yolk of an egg, and a little wine, and would take for supper a mess of beetroot and rice and a chicory salad.
Boil your rice and when tender mix in with it the juice of a boiled beetroot to which some sugar has been added. Turn it into a mold and when cold remove it and serve it with a spoonful of raspberry preserve on the top or with some red plums round it. Take some of the best French preserved prunes, and remove the stones. Soak them in orange curacoa for as long a time as you have at your disposal.
"It wasn't me it wasn't me!" screamed the Child, beaten from one side of the hall to the other, so that the potatoes and beetroot rolled out of her skirt. The Frau seemed to be as big as a giant, and there was a certain heaviness in all her movements that was terrifying to anyone so small. "Sit in the corner, and peel and wash the vegetables, and keep the baby quiet while I do the washing."
Unless I have some luck at lansquenet, I shall have to come out soon and join you. Hem! I did you an injustice, Louvois. I see that you have not looked over these letters." The minister had sat with a face which was the colour of beetroot, and eyes which projected from his head, while this epistle was being read.
And I pictured to myself our Prussians of Bixschoote sprawling on the ground, with their teeth set and their heads hidden among the beetroot, waiting until the hurricane had passed, to get up again and rush forward with their bayonets, cheering! Sister Gabrielle had the same thought, no doubt.
Persons assumed strange forms and the shapes of things were modified or exaggerated. Our dazzled eyes were mocked by depressing hallucinations; the smallest objects took on alarming proportions, and whenever a slight breeze stirred the foliage of the beetroot field in front of us we imagined we saw a line of snipers advancing. I had great difficulty in preventing my men from firing.
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