While they were eating, I took a boiled capon and cut it up in a masterly manner.
The capon should be a golden brown all over, except on the back where it touches the bag and underneath the bacon slices.
CAPON is the best of all poultry, having been specially treated and fattened for the table.
And when the servant had brought back this message to the King, he cried out, "You have eaten half the cake and fifteen of the biscuits and didn't hand over the caponat all.
On the way the servant ate half the cake and half of the biscuits and hid the capon away for his supper.
Prepare and truss a capon as for roasting, rub all over with butter and place in a casserole with a good sized slice of salt pork.
In the meantime cook a cupful of rice, season it with a little curry powder and pimento, and place around the capon on the platter on which it is served.
The rent amounted to about one cent an acre, and some twenty cents or a live capon for each of the two or three arpents of frontage which a farm would have.
Marquise eating that roast capon and drinking that Burgundy rose before my eyes, my ears caught some fragments of the excited conversation which was going on all around me.
I committed a grievous sin when my hungry eyes fastened upon that roast capon and that bottle of Burgundy.
With blind instinct, too, I had clung to thecapon and the wine, the price of my infamy.
I was still hugging the roast capon with one arm, with the other I clung to him as together we walked in the direction of the Rue des Pipots.
I saw that brute Dompierre pick up the largest roast capon from the front of his shop, together with a bottle of that wine which I had coveted; then he thrust both these treasures into my trembling hands and said: "En avant!
After supper the master of the house thus addressed his visitor: "Friend, I thought thy carving at dinner somewhat peculiar, but thy distribution of the capon this evening seems to me extremely whimsical.
Various amusements made the afternoon pass very agreeably to the stranger, until supper-time, when a fine capon was placed upon the table, which the master desired his guest to carve for the company.
The 123rd novel of Sacchetti, in which a young man carves a capon in a whimsical fashion, finds its original in the following Talmudic story: The Capon-Carver.
When the girl saw that the prince was asleep, she said to her brother: "I will wager that you do not know why the prince divided the capon among us in the manner he did.
The capon formed none of this energy, and he could not develop a perfect body, be industrious, gallant and brave.
The capon will rush up to the food, with one foot crushing the life out of a chicken and the other crushing the life out of another chicken; he hurriedly eats the food and does not offer any to the old hen and her chickens.
A tree there is, that lowly grows, And some do call it rue, sir; The smallest dunghill cock that crows Would make a capon of you, sir.
We almost expect to see the squire of the last picture enter from behind, bearing aloft in both hands a fat capon on an ample pewter platter.
The little waiter trotted down stairs, and Simon sat greedily down to discuss the capon and the white wine.
I wish I could see a capon and a bottle of white wine.
I'll dine you on goose and veal and capon and nappy English ale.
And if they spy your colors, they're not apt to welcome you aland for roast capon and grog.
Hawksworth wondered absently how long his bloat--too much capon and port wine--would last if Mackintosh had him on the third watch for a month.
Capon hardy, wyll syt downe by his Maister, or els go cheeke by cheeke with him in the streete.
Wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it?
So you have him crimped here in his own house, stuffing him like a penned capon before you wring his neck.
I had scarce finished picking the bones of the capon before sleep came again to drag at my eyelids, a drowsiness so masterful that I could make no head against it.
So both sat down and began to feast right lustily, so that when they were done the bones of the capon were picked as bare as charity.
Because a capon loses not his moisture by treading of the hens.
