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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Mom," Amanda told her mother as they ate supper one night when many apples were to be pared for the next day's use, "Lyman Mertzheimer seen us pick apples to-day and he said he's comin' over to-night to the snitzin' party d'you care?" "No. Let him come." "So," teased Uncle Amos. "Guess in a few years, Manda, you'll be havin' beaus.
Mr Carker pared his nails delicately with a penknife, and smiled at the Captain, who was standing by the door looking at him. 'I excessively regret poor Gay, said Carker, 'and the crew. I understand there were some of our very best men among 'em. It always happens so. Many men with families too. A comfort to reflect that poor Gay had no family, Captain Cuttle!
And Sandy, with her protest, would lay a cool cheek against her mother's hot one. "Do you have to stay out here, Mother?" she would ask resentfully. "Can't the Culled Lady do this?" "Well, I left her to watch it, and it burned," Mrs. Salisbury would say, "so now it has to be pared and frosted. Such a bother! But this is the very last thing, dear. You run along; I'll be out of here in two minutes!"
There was a scowl on his forehead as he pared the peach daintily with a sharp silver knife. These Christians were beginning to make him nervous. There was the Lady Octavia, for instance, who must needs be so foolish as to release all her slaves just because of a silly fancy that Christians should not possess human beings as property.
He was of low birth, but having evinced, even from his cradle, an uncommon seriousness of disposition, the poor parents were encouraged to hope that their bairn, as they expressed it, 'might wag his pow in a pulpit yet. With an ambitious view to such a consummation, they pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learning.
Every one, from the manager down to the boy who pared potatoes, laid himself out to make the occasion a memorable one. The millionaire's table was placed in the very centre of the dining- room, and plates were laid for eight. At the last minute, Mr. Blithers ordered the number increased to nine. "My daughter may put in an appearance," he explained to Lady Simpson.
But the lion's paws are not yet pared; beware then, my princess! The lady would carry it with a high hand, Fairfax. But let her!
The bank had been somewhat narrowed and pared away, and it was clearly the last place in the face of the whole opening into the wood, which a rider with his senses about him would have selected for his jump. The horse knowing his master's humour, and knowing also, which is so vitally important, the nature of his master's courage, jumped at the bank, without pausing.
Mark's consternation changed to alarm when he discovered that little cylinders, like macaroni, began to roll from under the mitten. They were too white to be dirt. He felt that he was gradually being pared down to a convenient size.
Have ready a stuffing made of grated bread-crumbs, butter, minced sweet herbs, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and beaten yolk of egg. Fill with it the cavity from whence you took the seeds, and bake the egg plants in a Dutch oven. Serve them up with a made gravy poured into the dish. Having pared your cucumbers, cut them lengthways into pieces about as thick as a dollar. Then dry them in a cloth.
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