The next morning, while the members of the cadet corps were grinding at recitations, or boning over study desks in barracks, Mrs. Bentley and the girls rode down the slope in the stage and boarded a train for New York.
Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers?
Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
See here, you coldfeet," began the captain of the Army eleven sternly, "what do you two mean by staying in here and boning dry facts?
He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.
I'm not boning bootlick with cadets or with officers either," retorted Dick rather crisply.
No longer did he hold aloof, boning always, in his lonely room.
Yet instead ofboning in his warm room, the behemoth Senior perched on the fence and stared gloomily into space.
You'll find directions for boning and re-forming a whole chicken further on, but in case you don't have the time or desire to do it yourself, a cooperative butcher can do it for you in about five minutes.
He had just been licking me for boning a strap of his skate.
I considered myself justified in boningthe ring for my own use, so I had it enlarged to go on my finger, and there it is, on!
It is a boning knife, but doubtless one of our men used it in cutting celery for salad, or some such purpose.
Cadet Prescott was alone in their room, boning hard, at about nine that evening, when a member of the cadet guard informed him that he was wanted by the O.
So the warm nights of May found anxious young men in all the classes boning up to within a few minutes of the sound of taps.
We've some boning of our own to do before the call sounds for supper formation.
She's the one who terrorized you with the boning knife in the shrubbery, or sicked the giant tarantula on you at the dark end of the subway platform, or whatever it was, and the others are covering up for.
Actually, I've been boning so that the whole thing gets on my nerves, and stays there like a cargo of lead.
Poor fellow spent three weeks, days and nights, boning for that exam.
We'll find the class has been moving ahead while we've been boning over West Point and Annapolis requirements.
He had been in Chicago for two years, boninghis friends and living like a gutter-snipe.
You might pass me a quarter or something, just to make people think I'm boning you for a breakfast.
If anyone be culpable 'tis myself, not Fanny; but I throw myself on your mercy, and only implore that the herring-boning of my sister will not result in a whaling for me.
I must do so in justice to her, for the blame rests with me so far as the herring-boning is concerned.
Benny was developing a new trait with an old name—"boning popularity," it used to be called.
Of course, other kinds of poultry may be boned if desired, and if the directions here given for boning chicken are thoroughly learned no difficulty will be encountered in performing this operation on any kind.
Boning is not a wasteful process as might be supposed, because after the flesh is removed from the bones, they may be used in the making of soup.
When haddock is to be baked, select a 4 or 5-pound fish, clean it thoroughly, boning it if desired, and sprinkle it inside and out with salt.
The bird may be drawn or not before boning it, but in any event care must be taken not to break any part of the skin.
If the slope is steep, herring-boning is too exhausting to be kept up for more than a short time by anyone but a trained athlete, but on a gradient which will allow the skis to diverge at only a slight angle it is easy enough.
For the above method of herring-boning I am indebted, through Mr. Rickmers, to Herr Zdarsky.
In Cheshire, cheese-making had exhausted the soil, and it was said that by boning and draining an additional cow could be kept for every 4 acres, and tenants readily paid 7 per cent.
Place it on its breast, and with a small, sharp boning knife, cut in a straight line through to the bone, from the neck down to that part of the bird where there is but little flesh, where it is all skin and fat.
Where much boning is done a smallboning knife, costing about seventy- five cents, will be necessary; It should be used only for this purpose.
If nothing more were gained in the boning of a bird, the knowledge of the anatomy and the help this will give in carving, pay to bone two or three chickens.
If you do not have the large needle, make the holes with the boning knife or the carving steel, and press the pork through with the fingers.
Herring-boning is used for finishing seams on a flannel skirt, or it may be used above hems.
Herring-boning or cat-stitching] A plain quilt or cover for the baby can be made very attractive, by working herring-boning around the edge.
When you have made a row between with the lines, try to work one without lines and see if you can keep the herring-boning straight (Figure 98).
The flannel, cashmere, or canton flannel is finished by turning the edges over a quarter of an inch and herring boning or cat-stitching them to the material (Figure 66).
The work of boning is not difficult, but requires care and a little practice.
