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Updated: May 12, 2025
A broad and shallow bowl or dish half-filled with blazing brandy, at the bottom of which lay numerous toothsome raisins a rare tidbit in those days and one of these, pierced with a gold button, was known as the "lucky raisin." Then, as the flaming brandy flickered and darted from the yawning bowl, even as did the flaming poison tongues of the cruel dragon that St.
"'Why, what's the mater? 'phoned back the old man. "'Just simply this: that I have sold another man in your town, and I don't care to place my line with more than one, I answered. 'Who Is it? said he. I told him. "'Well, now, look here, he came back at me. 'That fellow's just a tidbit.
The labyrinthodon evidently thought that Ja was coming to double his portion of human flesh, so he was in no haste to pursue me to the cliff and frighten away this other tidbit. Instead he merely trotted along behind me. As I approached the foot of the cliff I saw what Ja intended doing, but I doubted if the thing would prove successful.
And he walked on down the tiny street towards the muffin which awaited him at home, well pleased with his perspicuity, and making mental preparations for the astonishing of his wife with a tidbit of news. Dion came into the Green Court, and immediately felt Welsley, felt it in the depths of him, and understood Rosamund's love of it so often expressed in her letters.
Often some tidbit of food lay there, brought for Bobby by a stranger. He had learned that a Scotch bun dropped near him was a feast that brought feathered visitors about and won their confidence and cheerful companionship.
We added a few snow cocks to our larder although they were out of their habitat, flying down into the gorge from their peaks and table-lands for some choice tidbit. All that day we marched on, and when at night we made camp, sleep came to us quickly and overmastering. An hour after dawn we were on our way. A brief stop we made for lunch; pressed forward.
All this time he had become more and more fascinated with the view without his door; one could fairly see the love of the world grow upon him. He picked at the bark about him; he began to get ideas about ants, and ran out a long tongue and helped himself to many a tidbit. When the young golden-wing had passed four days in this manner, he grew impatient.
He was always on the watch for some extra tidbit always rooting about to find some dainty that others had overlooked. Many a delicious piece of carrot, or turnip, or potato-paring rewarded him for his eager searching. Still, Grunty Pig was far from satisfied. He had a great longing to get outside the pen where he lived with the rest of Mrs. Pig's seven children.
I would salute the victor if I could. ... Ey, Melicent, I still consider you and Perion are fools. We have a not intolerable world to live in, and common-sense demands we make the most of every tidbit this world affords. Yet you can find in it only an exercising-ground for infatuation, and in all its contents pleasures and pains alike only so many obstacles for rapt insanity to override.
I have seen her sit on the edge of a table where chickens were being dressed and wait patiently for a tidbit; I have seen her left alone in the room, while on that table was a piece of raw steak, but no temptation was ever great enough to make her touch any of these forbidden things. She actually seemed to have a conscience. Only one thing on the dining table would she touch.
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