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At this proposition several of the men began to murmur. "If any are afraid they are not obliged to remain," said the Decurio dryly. "I agree," said Lupey doggedly. "I will remain here; and perhaps, after all, it is poppy-seeds you have got there it looks very much like them."
They had to be left outside. As soon as the Suffet was in the town the principal men came to greet him. He had himself taken to the vapour baths, and called for his cooks. Three hours afterwards he was still immersed in the oil of cinnamomum with which the basin had been filled; and while he bathed he ate flamingoes' tongues with honied poppy-seeds on a spread ox-hide.
Then mix 1 cup of fine poppy-seeds with the yolks of 5 eggs and 1/2 cup of sugar, some chopped raisins and nuts and the juice of 1/2 lemon. Add the whites beaten stiff; then fill with the mixture and let bake until done. English Boiled Pudding. Mix 1/2 pound of butter with 1/2 pound of powdered sugar to a cream.
At this proposition several of the men began to murmur. "If any are afraid they are not obliged to remain," said the Decurio dryly. "I agree," said Lupey doggedly. "I will remain here; and perhaps, after all, it is poppy-seeds you have got there it looks very much like them."
Mackay the "Prince of the Poets of England." The dreary solemnity with which these incidents are narrated renders them doubly tedious. A flash of humor might enliven them, but we never see a spark. Mr. Mackay's comic stories, too, of which there are not a few, are most lamentable specimens of wit, suggesting forcibly the poppy-seeds spoken of by Mr.
There were ripe poppy-seeds to be shaken out through the curious lid of their seed-vessel, in which a child's fancy found a curious resemblance to a pepper-box; I often forced it to serve as one in the imaginary feasts spread out on the door-step, though there were no guests to be invited, except plenty of wandering butterflies, or an occasional humming-bird, whizzing about the crimson blossoms of the balm.
"That we could not do, unless we had a net." "I can shoot them with small shot." "No, no," said Lucien, "the smallest would tear them to pieces. They are sometimes shot with poppy-seeds, and sometimes with water. But never mind, I would rather observe them a bit as they are. I want to satisfy myself upon a point. You may look for the nest, as you have good eyes.
Let us link our fingers instead of only touching each other." They all did so and were silent once more. And now a fear seized the doctor. He became aware that a drowsy spirit like the little sandman who threw the dust of slumber into the eyes of the children stole round the circle. In his hands were poppy-seeds and opiates, and his touch was magical with sleep.
Poppy-seeds cooked in honey, and dried in square cakes. The fat-lamp, quivering and flaring up as though in fear of something, lighted us within our cottage; the spindle hummed; and all of us children, collected in a cluster, listened to grandfather, who had not crawled off the oven for more than five years, owing to his great age.
To her eye, all untaught by man, but enlightened by the Divine light, the invisible things of God were clearly seen by the things that were visible. Once she was helping an elder sister to make some cakes mixed with poppy-seeds, to give to her brother who was ill and suffering from want of sleep.
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