Harry had secured some slices of cold beef the day before, and these, which he shared with Jack, made a meal fit for a king when added to the regular rations that had been served out.
Not only did they drink from the brook while devouring the hard biscuit and boiled beef they had brought along, but they bathed their feet in the stream, and carefully dried them before putting on their shoes and stockings.
They then went into the cellar, set all the ale barrels running, broke the necks of the wine bottles, spilt the other liquors, and slashed a round of beefwith their cutlasses.
After this accommodation, our landlord and we sat down at a board, and dined upon shin of beef most deliciously; our reckoning amounting to twopence halfpenny each, bread and small beer included.
They were each given a plate upon which was a potato and a small piece of cold beef and the inevitable hunk of dry bread.
He ordered a hot roast-beef sandwich and coffee as he shared his joke with the waitress.
That," said Amy, settling back luxuriously and patting his waistcoat, "is my cornedbeef hash.
With all their aspirations to the character of typical Englishmen, Mr. Pendyce and Mr. Barter thought themselves far from the old beef and beer, port and pigskin types of the Georgian and early Victorian era.
Antonia stood at the sideboard carving beef for him, and in the window sat Thea with her Persian kitten.
I get Army rations," said the Major, holding a morsel of fillet of beef towards Blink.
For lunch she drank some beef tea, keeping up the fiction of her indisposition.
He awoke early, took a breakfast of fresh beef with the men in the convent yard, and then, rifle in hand, he mounted the church wall.
For them all Maggie poured cups of tea, and Ester passed bread and butter, and beef and cheese, and Sadie gave overflowing dishes of blackberries, and chattered like a magpie, which last she did everywhere and always.
Sadie, won't you come and cut the beef and cake, and make the tea?
In telling about the pickled beef he says he never has seen any beef since that looked like it; he believed that it was horse meat.
The government was allowing hard tack and pickled beeffor the negroes.
Some thin slices of beef were exposed for a considerable time to the fumes of tobacco, and afterward offered to a dog which had been deprived of food for twelve hours.
Fresh codfish fried in fat or served with butter gravy about equals beef in all respects, and so do eggs fried in fat.
Liquid food (milk, eggs in beef tea, and water) is carefully given, so that mastication is not necessary.
An American breakfast; coffee, beef steaks, eggs, tart and cakes like crumpet, made from buck wheat.
On returning to the Hotel, met Mr. Jackson and also Captain Kenney; took a piece of beef and a glass of champagne with my old companions.
The breakfast consists of coffee, bread and butter, eggs, beef or mutton with buck wheat cakes resembling crumpets also blackberry pies and potatoes; nearly the same at dinner, and again at supper with tea.
Walked on shore to Portsmouth; saw a basket of offal beef thrown into the river; a warm morning, the ice on the butter steaming, 17 dishes of hot meat besides vegetables for the people.
I have always a Piece of cold Beef and a Mince-Pye upon the Table, and am wonderfully pleased to see my Tenants pass away a whole Evening in playing their innocent Tricks, and smutting one another.
Fur the last five years Lawson has driv home the prize beef from the fall match, an' every time paw jest fairly shakes with madness over it.
Medicine won't do much good," the doctor had said; "he needsbeef and cream.
Fish and salted beef and pork fared alike for the first twenty years.
The same principle covers the beef and pork of the farmer which covers the fish of the fisherman; and such was the law, as I have shown, for the first eighteen years that these bounties and allowances were authorized.
No beef or pork for the army or navy, or for consumption in the South, or for exportation abroad, can be put up except in this kind of salt.
The same principle covers the beef and pork of the farmer, which covers the fish of the fisherman; and such was the law in the beginning.
The bounty was the same in each case; it was five cents a quintal on dried fish, five cents a barrel on pickled fish, and five on beef and pork.
Then they parted company; bounties and allowances were continued to the fisheries, and dropped on beef and pork; and this has been the case ever since.
Those tribes, as the Ute, who are unable to procure beef or buffalo skins, make beautiful lariats of thin strips of buckskin plaited together; but as these are used only for securing their horses they are usually plaited flat.
Of late years all the beef issued to the Indians on the reservations, and not needed for immediate consumption, is treated in this way.
Charlo beef, The beefwas tough, Poor Old Hundred Couldn't get enough!
As I recall it, you were the prizebeef chawer," he remarked.
Cold fowls and a round of coldbeef formed the main features of the repast; Mary poured out tea for the women at her end of the table, while the men drank two or three bottles of grocer's sherry among them.
Banish this unutterable folly of freedom, and control the breeding of human flesh as we control the output of beef and of mutton.
