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The breakfast rations consisted of Army bread heavy lumps of a doughy elasticity one would think only within the range of badness of a comic paper's 'Mrs. Newlywed' flint-hard biscuits, cheese, and tea.
I can only describe it as a hash of soaked bread and bits of tobacco, brought to a doughy consistency by the united agency of perspiration and rain. But repulsive as it might otherwise have been, I now regarded it as an invaluable treasure, and proceeded with great care to transfer this paste-like mass to a large leaf which I had plucked from a bush beside me.
The trees are stripped of their nodding burdens, which, easily freed from the rind and core, are gathered together in capacious wooden vessels, where the pulpy fruit is soon worked by a stone pestle, vigorously applied, into a blended mass of a doughy consistency called by the natives “Tutao.” This is then divided into separate parcels, which, after being made up into stout packages, enveloped in successive folds of leaves, and bound round with thongs of bark, are stored away in large receptacles hollowed in the earth, from whence they are drawn as occasion may require.
Doughy the baker, stepping down unexpectedly from the Woolpack to borrow a shilling from his wife, had found her drinking beer in the kitchen with Happy Jack. And while Doughy was hammering on the front door, Happy Jack had slipped out at the back, and was watching Doughy's antics over the shoulders of his pals.
If you have a hard pencil, it was made by using considerable clay; if your pencil is soft, by using very little; and if it is very soft and black, it is possible that a little lampblack was added. This inky mass is ground together between millstones for several weeks. Then it goes between rollers, and at length is squeezed through a die and comes out in soft, doughy black strings.
The crowd dwindled as the excitement died out, and Doughy was left muttering to himself. From the group at the corner came the roar of a chorus: You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee, I'd like to sip the honey sweet from those red lips, you see; I love you dearly, dearly, and I want you to love me; You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.
He held out his hand. On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. "Why, Holmes, you had only two yesterday!" "And one more this morning. It is a fair argument that wherever No. 3 came from is also the source of Nos. 1 and 2. Eh, Watson? Well, come along and put friend Soames out of his pain."
Say, Betty," she added, regarding the doughy mixture the result of Betty's skillful manipulation, "that looks mighty interesting I shouldn't mind learning how to make them myself." "Oh, it's lots of fun," Betty affirmed, cutting out the biscuits with an improvised cutter this last being the top of a baking powder can.
Should my brother stand lower in the social scale than I, shall I not be the more tender, and respectful, and self-refusing toward him, that God has placed him there who may all the time be greater than I? A year before, Helen could hardly endure doughy Mrs. Bevis, but now she had found something to like in her, and there was confidence and faith between them.
I did not wish your absence or the hour of your return to be known. My visitors must not be remarked upon by my servants!" "Then why did you not speak to me?" "I wished to give you a lesson." "You thought to frighten me, as if I were a doughy, half-baked English girl! Allow me to ask how you were aware I was out." Lady Ann was not ready with her answer.
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