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Updated: May 15, 2025
"So this is the result," said the old Captain. "It's just like putting new wine into old bottles!" "Precisely," replied the lieutenant, joining in his laugh. "But, don't you feel hungry, Captain Dresser?" "I do," he promptly rejoined. "This sea air give; one the very deuce of an appetite; and I confess to feeling slightly peckish."
The story books will have come true oh, it will be too lovely." "I'm thinking of the supper," said Boris. "I expect I'll get awful peckish sitting up so late. I hope there'll be jellies I love jellies; don't you, Nell?" "Yes; I heard Hester say there was to be a real band. I wonder if they'll play any of the airs out of Faust. I do so love the Soldier's Chorus, don't you?"
"Three months," said Pelle. "Then you must be peckish. Here with the beef! More beef here!" they cried, to the cook's mate. "You can keep the potatoes and welcome! We've eaten enough potatoes all our lives!" "This is Tom Tiddler's land, with butter sauce into the bargain! This is how we've always said it ought to be good wages and little to do, lots to eat and brandy to drink!
They stood looking around for a few minutes and then Tricksy's voice broke in, with a little laugh in it, 'Yes, these are very nice chairs, and it's a very nice table; but are we going to get anything to put on it? All the others laughed. 'Well, said Allan, 'now I come to think of it, I am a bit peckish. What do you say, Hamish?
And so Walter Harding went on to his business; while Tom Leslie, the member of the party who was "peckish," accompanied the two girls, who were decidedly hungry, to that over-gilt and tawdry caricature upon some of the palace-halls of the Old World, known as "Taylor's Saloon."
"No; it is hovering over the gentleman." "What does that mean?" said the Prophet, anxiously. But at this point Eureka suddenly seemed to lose interest in the matter. "Oh, you're all right," she said carelessly. "I'm tired. I should like a wafer." "Mother's peckish. Mother, I see an ostrich by your left elbow. That's a sign that you're so peckish you could swallow anything. Waiter!" "Sir!"
I hope I shan't dream about them." "No fear of that," Dick said laughing. "The countess said that some supper should be ready for us when we got back. I feel tremendously peckish. After the night air, and plenty of hot tea and a good tuck-in, we shall sleep without dreaming, I can venture to say." The countess and her daughters had gone to bed long before the return of the sportsmen.
Shortly, the whole number of girls arrived. "I feel peckish!" Pao-yue shouted; and again and again he tried to hurry the meal. It was with great impatience that he waited until the eatables could be laid on the table. One of the dishes consisted of kid, boiled in cow's milk. "This is medicine for us, who are advanced in years," old lady Chia observed. "They're things that haven't seen the light!
I say, you Dan," he went on, "you'd better serve round some biscuit and bacon to the lads, for they must be getting peckish after what they've gone through. I say, Sir Humphrey, what do you say to making a hand-grenade or two out of pound powder-tins and pieces of rag?" "To throw on board the canoes?" said Sir Humphrey: "horrible!"
Abe's all right good man and all that but he's no sailor," Cap'n Amazon added, shaking his head. "Now, here!" he went on briskly, "we ought to have breakfast, hadn't we? I left that woman Abe has pokin' around here, to dish up; and it's 'most six bells. Feel kind of peckish myself, Louise." "I'll run to see if the biscuits are done," said the girl; and she hurried to the kitchen ahead of him.
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