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Again I quote my journal: 'JULY 5TH. Men sulky because they have nothing to eat but rancid ham, and biscuit dust which has been so often soaked that it is mouldy and sour. They are a dainty lot! Samson and I left camp early with the hopes of getting meat. While he was shooting prairie dogs his horse made off, and cost me nearly an hour's riding to catch.
We packed home the hind quarters and made a fine grizzly stew. Before this we had found that the old bears were tough and rancid, but the little ones were as sweet and tender as suckling pigs. This stew was particularly good, well seasoned with canned tomatoes and the last of our potatoes and onions.
One sees the sanctuary where the great Caliph said his prayers, and the Koran written by Othman and stained with his blood was kept; but I know at least one traveler who saw it without sentiment or any sort of reverent emotion, though he had not the authority of the "old rancid Christianity" of a Castilian for withholding his homage.
To her mother she said: "They are associated in my mind with something sweet and fine a man's aspiration. They taste good in my mouth after all these years of rancid melodrama." To herself she said: "If they succeed if they win the public my lover will come back. He can then come as a conqueror."
Listening near with rancid grin behind some greenery, O'Hara kept nodding emphatic assents of satisfaction to Hogarth's praise. "But, stop", said Loveday: "do you know why he was in prison?" "He was innocent". "Of what?" "Of stealing some diamonds entrusted him by the Pope". "Bah! he lies.
"I knowed you wouldn't be accusing him so rancid, had you been posted on his funeral." Wilfred felt a great relief, then a great wonder. "He's dead. I don't say he's better off, I don't know; but I guess the world is. I don't like to censure them that's departed. Brick Willock is still with us, and him the county can't say enough against.
You rise from table feeling that you have been soaked in rancid oil. My table-companions were disposed to be sociable. The travellers desired to know whether I was there to sell anything, and one drew from his pocket, for my inspection, a case of watch-chains.
Bulwer's style; the poetising, which may be likened unto the flatulent turnips and carrots; and the politics, which are as the gravy, reeking of filthy garlic, greasy with rancid oil; even so, we say, pursuing this savoury simile to its fullest extent, the natural qualities of young Pelham the wholesome and juicy mutton of the mind, is shrunk and stewed away.
Such were the rations and clothing of the army at that epoch; rancid grease, musty meal, tattered jackets, and worn-out shoes. And these were the fortunate ones! Whole divisions often went without bread even, for two whole days. Thousands had no jackets, no blankets, and no shoes. Gaunt forms, in ragged old shirts and torn pantaloons only, clutched the musket.
After some search, we found one, and sat down to eat it, keeping our own provision for dinner. The nut was somewhat rancid; but we enjoyed it, and then continued our journey. We were some time before we got through the wood, being frequently obliged to clear a road for ourselves, through the entangled brushwood, with our hatchets.
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