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In the field the authorized allowances must often be reduced and supplemented by grazing and other kinds of food, such as green forage, beans, peas, rice, palay, wheat, and rye. For unshelled corn, add about one-quarter weight. On the march the grain ration is the only forage carried. It consists of 12 pounds of grain for each horse and 9 pounds of grain for each mule.
They are the scavengers of the shore, eating everything, and thus acting as conservators of health, as do the lank pigs of the Philippines. They were in myriads, rushing about seemingly without purpose, and diving into their holes beneath the palm-roots. Their legs, unshelled, are as excellent food as the crabs of the Atlantic.
"I'm leaving to-day," he announced, dryly, not without a feeling of pride. "What are you going to do?" "I haven't decided... Perhaps...I don't know ... I may become an insurance broker." Brauer picked through the mess in his plate for an unshelled shrimp. "That takes money," he ventured, dubiously. "Oh, not a great deal," Starratt returned, ruffling a trifle.
But he had scarcely seated himself in the rocking-chair before Miss Macy appeared, carrying with both hands a large tin basin of unshelled peas. "There," she said pantingly, placing her burden in his lap, "if you really want to help, there's something to do that isn't very fatiguing. You may shell these peas." "SHELL them I beg pardon, but how?" he asked, with smiling earnestness. "How?
She boiled the asparagus for an hour and was grieved to find the heads cooked off and the stalks harder than ever. The bread burned black; for the salad dressing so aggravated her that she could not make it fit to eat. The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
As the few pages which I have found, and which contain merely scattered hints of thoughts, are numbered as high as 232, it is possible that the preceding part of the work may have been sufficiently complete to go into the printer's hands, and that there, like so many more of his "unshelled brood," it died without ever taking wing.
Gabriel Parsons, as he passed the bottle, ‘there I remained till half-past seven the next morning, when the housemaid’s sweetheart, who was a carpenter, unshelled me. The old dog had nailed me up so securely, that, to this very hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out.’ ‘And what did Mrs.
The almost unprotected coast of the American continent has been kept free of invaders; its large helpless cities are unshelled, because "out there" in the North Sea the British navy maintains an eternal vigilance.
Take three pints of unshelled shrimps and shell them, one-half pint of cream, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of catsup, one wine glass of sherry, paprika, chili powder and parsley. Brown the flour in the butter and add the milk until it is thickened. Color with the catsup and season with paprika and chili powder.
He caught the eye of the wizened man, and stopped again. "Have you been in Mervo long?" he said, as the ball fell. "I only arrived this morning. It seems lovely. I must explore to-morrow." She was beginning to move off. "Er " John coughed to remove what seemed to him a deposit of sawdust and unshelled nuts in his throat.
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