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226. =Arrowroot Gruel.= Mix one ounce of arrowroot with sufficient cold water to make a smooth paste; into this pour a gill or more of boiling water, stirring the mixture until it is quite clear; sweeten it with a little sugar, and use it at once.
It has been a fair fight; no one can say otherwise. Let us put it to the vote. I propose that Mr. Knightley's offer be accepted. Not that I intend to take a shilling of the money. 'Nor me either, says I. 'So you three chaps will have it to share between you. I don't see that we can do better. A fight's a fight, and if Patsey got his gruel it might have happened to Mr. Knightley himself.
"Fact is, soup to me is just soup. I presume there are different kinds, but beyond knowing most of them from gruel I don't pretend to be a connoisseur." "What nonsense, Alexander!" said momma sternly.
"Once when I injured myself out hunting, and was five days without food or drink, it was the only thing that kept me alive." Mr. Clark's gibe as to the size of the photograph was lost in Mrs. Bowman's exclamations of pity. "I once lived on two ounces of gruel and a cup of milk a day for ten days," he said, trying to catch the widow's eye. "After the ten days "
To these may be added a variety of other articles adapted to a state of sickness and disease, which will be found under their respective heads; such as Beef Tea, Flummery, Jellies of various kinds, Lemon Whey, Vinegar Whey, Cream of Tartar Whey, Mustard Whey, Treacle Posset, Buttermilk, Onion Porridge, Water Gruel, and Wormwood Ale.
His eyeballs were tinctured with yellow. His right shoulder was a mass of long-healed scars from the claws and teeth of some beast. Behind him, against a solid wall of his people, young girls with shaved heads, awe-stricken, held gourds of beer as pink as coral and as thick as gruel.
If this were done before they begin to deposit their eggs on the ground, the ravages of the canker would in a great measure be prevented. CAUDLE. Make a fine smooth gruel of half grits, strain it after being well boiled, and stir it at times till quite cold. When to be used, add sugar, wine, lemon peel and nutmeg. A spoonful of brandy may be added, and a little lemon juice if approved.
He struck the palm of his hand violently on his forehead; he threw out his arm, as if in defiance, toward heaven, and groaned aloud. It seemed as though from every heaped-up grave that groan was echoed, and called to him like an invitation to join the hosts of darkness. He started, and looked again at the gruel sky. But no voice of comfort was breathed thence.
I will kill him as I would kill any other vermin." Then I was ashamed, for to say such things before women was not my way. "I could kill him myself," said my aunt, savagely. "And now do have some more of this nice, good gruel," which set me to laughing. "Let him go," said I, "and the gruel too." "And that is what you must do, sir. You must go. I am all day in terror."
Dolly's exhortation, which was an unusually long effort of speech for her, was uttered in the soothing persuasive tone with which she would have tried to prevail on a sick man to take his medicine, or a basin of gruel for which he had no appetite.
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