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A wine glassful of this to be taken occasionally. DRIED BACON. When two flitches are to be cured, divide the hog, cut off the hams, and take out the chine. It is common to remove the spare-ribs, but the bacon will be preserved better from being rusty, if they are left in.
In the further corner of the latter was a summer-house, erected on the top of the wall, so as to look over it on the fields and the distant sea. Tea was here served up to us in a manner neither French nor English, but partaking of both. Plates of cold chicken, slices of chine, cakes, sweetmeats, and the whitest bread, composed a kind of mixed repast, between the English tea and the French supper.
He knew that Wilder, well known and long trusted, had a reason for everything he did. It was not the time to question him, or discuss the prudence of the step he was taking. There might be danger before, but there was death sure death behind them. In less than a dozen paces from its entrance the chine opened into a wider space, again closing like a pair of callipers.
She tripped, and would have fallen had she not steadied herself against the table close to the stove, and as she did so she laughed under her breath. "Really this kimono is much too long." She looked down on the loosened hem. "And I oughtn't to wear my best accordion-pleated pale-blue crepe de Chine and shadow lace when I am so busy.
Had I been dreaming, I should almost have concluded it to be the genius of Africa, in the shape of its most puissant monster, who had bounded over the sea from the clime of sand and sun, bent on the destruction of the rival continent, more especially as the hue of its stony sides, its crest and chine, is tawny even as that of the hide of the desert king.
In the smoke-cloud that covered their retreat from the corralled waggons afterwards in the sombre shadow of the chine, and the obscurity of the cave, he had not observed what now, in the bright glare of the sunlight, is too plainly apparent that the nether garments of his comrade are saturated with blood.
In colour all were reddish-brown, and the chine of each arched itself like a bent bow. Five or six carried formidable tusks. These tusks, I think, must have struck terror in the breast of Mr.
In carving a quarter of lamb, separate the shoulder from the breast, or the leg from the ribs, sprinkle a little salt and pepper, and squeeze on some lemon juice. It should be accompanied by asparagus, green peas, and lettuce. PORK, HAM, &c. In cutting up pork, you have the spare-rib, shoulder, griskin or chine, the loin, middlings and leg; the head, feet, heart and liver.
And from his window he sat and watched them disappear, appear again in the chine of the road, vanish, and emerge once more for a minute clear on the outline of the Down. 'Silly brute! he thought; 'I always miss my chances. Why couldn't he be self-confident and ready? And, leaning his chin on his hands, he imagined the ride he might have had with her.
However, we were as merry as I could in their company, and we had a good chine of beef, but I had no taste nor stomach through my cold, and therefore little pleased with my dinner. It raining, they sat talking with us all the afternoon. So anon they went away; and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country," which is a very poor one, methinks. Then to supper, prayers, and bed. 26th.
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