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When the stately junket was concluded, it was the pleasure of M. de Chateaurien to form one of the escort of Lady Mary's carriage for the return. As they took the road, Sir Hugh Guilford and Mr. Bantison, engaging in indistinct but vigorous remonstrance with Mr. Molyneux over some matter, fell fifty or more paces behind, where they continued to ride, keeping up their argument.
To entertain by feasting; regale. II. i. To give or take part in an entertainment or excursion; feast in company; picnic; revel. JUNKET, n. A merry feast or excursion; picnic. When the author of a dictionary tries to be frivolous he only succeeds in making himself appear foolish.
We'll get this committee which Taylor suggests appointed, and send it on a junket to Alabama; you do the rest see?" "Who'll be the committee?" asked Cresswell. "Name it." Mr. Cresswell smiled and left. The winter started in severely, and it was easy to fill two private cars with members of the new Negro Education Board right after Thanksgiving. Cresswell had worked carefully and with caution.
Tris had to tell every particular about her builder and her building, and as the fishers were talking excitedly of these things, Joan gave a general invitation to her friends, and they followed her to the cottage, and heard the St. Penfer News read, and had a plate of junket and of clotted cream. And they were really proud and glad of what they heard.
All the shop had a confounded longing to junket. They wanted a merry-making of the right sort something out of the ordinary and highly successful. One does not have so many opportunities for enjoyment. What most troubled the laundress was to decide whom to invite; she wished to have twelve persons at table, no more, no less.
To keep up the pretense and show to the world that America still controlled the only proven method of manned space travel, the Joint Chiefs of Staff voted to expend two hundred gallons of the precious, small store of milk on hand for another interplanetary junket, this time to inspect the rings around Saturn.
Now won't we have a good time?" The bright face of the prospective bride fairly radiated with joy at the prospect Miss Wingate could but be sympathetically involved, and Mother Mayberry beamed with delight at the plan. "That'll be a junket that they won't never a one of 'em forget, Bettie!" she exclaimed with approval. "They ain't nothing in the world so educating as travel.
They were students, on a boating excursion, and wanted to get something to eat. 'Bring us a junket, good mother, cried they to Maie. 'Ah! if only I had such a thing! sighed Maie. 'A can of fresh milk, then, said the students; 'but it must not be skim. 'Yes, if only I had it! sighed the old woman, still more deeply. 'What! haven't you got a cow? Maie was silent.
He does not object to furmety or junket, or indeed to custards, if they are eaten at the proper seasons, and in the middle or at the end of meals. But he dislikes mushrooms, and advises you to wash out your mouth, and rub your teeth and gums with a dry cloth, after drinking milk.
The odour of coconut prevailed, delicately but abidingly; for, save for the occasioned pleasure junket, The Tigress was a copra carrier, shell and fibre. McClintock's was a plantation of ten thousand palms, yielding him annually about half a million nuts. Natives brought him an equal amount from the neighbouring islands.
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