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Updated: May 26, 2025
and a roasted pullet for dinner, and I sent for a mince-pie abroad, my wife not being well to make any herself yet. 26th. Up, my wife to the making of Christmas pies all day, being now pretty well again, and I abroad to several places about some businesses, among others bought a bake-pan in Newgate Market, and sent it home, it cost me 16s. So to Dr.
Well, on this second visit the victim remembers all his misfortunes of the past two days, his stomach ache, his thirst, his stubbed toe, his failure to collect eight cents that a neighbor owes him, his nightmare after a supper of poi, not mince-pie: just poi, his discovery of a bottle too late to know what was in it, and his wife's demand for a new dress.
Old Oliver turned away comforted, and prepared his own and Tony's dinner, and put a mince-pie into the oven to be ready to tempt Dolly's appetite when she awoke. But she slept heavily all the afternoon till it was almost dark outside, and the lamps were being lit, when she awoke, restless and feverish.
He advised me to go to a tavern, which he pointed out to me 'The Rummer; he told me a circumstance, which convinced me of the humanity of the master of the house. It was suspected that he carried away some of the provision, and a waiter at length communicated his suspicions to the master of the house. He watched the stranger, and actually detected him putting a large mince-pie into his pocket.
Judson delighted to send him little surprises, once a mince-pie, which Moung Ing carried with the utmost pride to his imprisoned master. Mrs. Judson found herself obliged to wear the native dress, though she was so much taller than the Burmese women that she could be hardly taken for one of them.
He had deferred to Deborah's imperious will, but he had never been able to understand why she would not allow Ephraim to eat mince-pie or anything else which his soul loved and craved. "No, guess I don't," Ephraim replied. He gazed moodily out of the window. "Father," said he, suddenly. "What say, sonny?" "I eat some of that pie last night." "Mother give it to you?"
She had but one domestic, and at the time to which I allude, she was very busy preparing for company. Her children knew by experience that when she was in a hurry she would indulge them in any thing for the sake of having them out of the way. George began, 'Mother, I want a piece of mince-pie. The answer was, 'It is nearly bed-time; and mince-pie will hurt you.
From under this his nose curved boldly forth, flushed with a frost-bitten bloom, that seemed the very trophy of a December blast. He was accompanied by the blue-eyed romp, dished up as "Dame Mince-Pie," in the venerable magnificence of faded brocade, long stomacher, peaked hat, and high-heeled shoes.
You shall have a piece of cake, if you will sit down and be still. The boy ate his cake; and liking the system of being hired to sit still, he soon began again, 'Mother, I want a piece of mince-pie. The old answer was repeated. The child stood his ground, 'Mother, I want a piece of mince-pie I want a piece I want a piece, was repeated incessantly.
Harlowe, giving due accent to her new name, "is, as everyone must perceive, one of those ethereal beings who care for nothing more substantial than beefsteak, plum-pudding, and mince-pie. Perhaps an airy slice of roast turkey might also tempt her abstemiousness!" "Take care, Doctor, I have some one to protect me now against your lawless tongue," cried Madge, with inimitable good-humor.
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