Eagle had invited all his friends for a feast, so theyate all the porpoises.
They had no fire at all, so they ateall their food raw.
So the wolves looked at the tree and at once ate the head.
Now Big Bear ate people, and he had eaten many Indians.
Little Tim's thin face seemed to be almost bulging when he had done; and he ate his sixth doughnut in gallant style.
It began to grow cloudy at midday, and some light flakes of snow fell, as they ate their luncheon and drank their coffee, beside a fire of spruce and birch at the summit of the mountain, near the head of the slide.
I'd like to see that Royal Bengal tiger that ate up three of his keepers alive.
She ate little, drank less, and scarcely spoke at all.
He ate and drank, but it was like an automaton eating and drinking.
He ate enough for three, and drank enough for a dozen.
Hertha climbed down from the stone, ate the blackberries which she had put down beside her, and thought of her journey home with some anxiety.
They ate their meat raw, like the Querechos and the Teyas, and were clad in tanned bison-skins, not having any cotton; but they cultivated maize.
They ate cassava bread, made in round white cakes from the root of the manioc.
The Spaniards ate the pineapple for the first time.
I don't forget how the scamps drove a whole herd of swine into my garden, which ate up all the cabbages and cucumbers; I don't forget how those sons of devils refused to thrash my rye for me.
He ate his supper cheerfully, and after he had finished, did not sit down as usual to copy documents.
He ate fresh apples every morning, and cleaned his teeth with extreme care, using five different tooth-brushes for three-quarters of an hour daily.
I should have been hungry; perhaps I was, but I was so excited and anxious that I ateonly a few mouthfuls.
I hastily ate my morning meat and, while the smoking was going on, saddled and bridled the horse.
I liked it, and always atemy share, although never without some misgivings as to the effect of the sharp and indigestible particles of pounded pits in my stomach.
Then took out his knife, cut it in three or four pieces, spread the butter on and they ate it.
And it did run until the shave money and interest more than ate up the principal.
After the ox got down, and we could not get him up he still ate and seemed to have a good appetite.
He said they knew what was good, for they ate all the "Johnny cake" and butter he had left.
A repast of the most delicious viands and fruits and wines was spread before them by invisible hands; and they both ate to satiety, taking copious draughts of the various wines.
She then gave me to drink a cup of wine; and I ate and drank, and put down the purse, and was about to depart; but she said, Whither wouldst thou go?
And I wondered at this; but he said to me, Wonder not; nor say in thy heart that I atewith thee with my left hand from a motive of self-conceit; for rather to be wondered at is the cause of the cutting off of my right hand.
The Prophet's favourite fruits were fresh dates[201] and water-melons; and he ate them both together.
In fact, 'he ate the little book,' as one of the legendary kings it celebrates had done before him.
There we ate our meal, or rather I ate and my companion watched, running out ever and again for a wider survey, and returning to me like a faithful dog, to shout snatches of his inconceivable language at me.
And while I ate I watched, and listened, not at all displeased with my entertainment.
I ate because I was ravenously hungry, but also because, while eating, I was better at my ease.
But meanwhile Richard Anson and I smoked Shangaan tobacco, and Miss Moore ate sweets out of a screw-topped bottle.
Then I gave him some bread and sausages, and he ate away ravenously.
I soon revived by his fireside, ate my supper, and smoked and talked with him to my great content.
Then they ate their food, and drugged themselves belatedly with quinine against those perils of the night.
Once he tried to feed all the animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.
Then he went to his camp and filled his hat with cake-crumbs, for the Parsee never ate anything but cake, and never swept out his camp.
Miss Mapp ate her egg in three mouthfuls, had no marmalade at all, and putting on the Prince of Wales's cloak tripped down into the High Street.
Before it had flown many yards, a starlingate most of it up, so the starling enjoyed itself too.
Go as soon as you've ate your dinner, so's to have it ready, for Uncle Piper has got to get home before sundown.
By Olive Thorne Miller 282 *Who Atethe Dolly's Dinner?
Now there were only eleven buildings in the whole of Plymouth village, four log storehouses and seven little log dwelling-houses; so the Indian guests ate and slept out of doors.
You ate your Thanksgiving dinner without me, but I have come back to spend the evening with you.
So they ate their supper at home for the first time, happy as new-nested birds, and far more grateful.
He ate it in two bites, and I came a quick way to our lane.
Before I could get to it, that spider ate that mosquito up.
He ateit in a hungry way, like Brave Horatius does eat his supper when we are come back from a long explore trip.
And Minerva had joy feels when I did tell her, and she ate all the grain in my hand while I was telling her.
My husband and I ate lobster, but my mother ate only a bit of it; she preferred coffee and milk and a slice of buttered toast.
Their life was like that of the prisoners; they lived in similar cells, ate the same food, were insulted by the women just as I and others were, but they remained quite unruffled and patient.
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