It was Mrs. Scone who advised her to rear capons for the market.
I always thought capons were fish, and that monks ate them for Friday's dinner.
The great scheme for supplying fat capons to the Jesuit College (not for Friday's dinner, of course, but as an article of nourishment proper to monasteries) never materialised.
Aware of his errand, one of them said, "well, Santi, have you capons to sell there?
On hearing the jest they had put upon Santi, and his business leading him that way, he determined to carry on the farce, and have a little sport; having met Santi, he asked him what he would sell the two capons for?
Well, the capons learned to ba from the goat and kids, as children learn to prate from their mothers and nurses.
True," said the driver, "but were not the capons and kids in the same place?
Nay," said one, "feel again, for they are capons to a certainty.
Or you may tye it up in a loose thin linnen cloth, or boulter, as they do Capons à la mode, or Brawn, or the like.
He quotes from Leland’s Itinerary that capons of Grease were served up at an entertainment, under Edward IV.
You capons face, we shall have you turnd out of the 475 parish one of these dayes, with never a tatter to your arse; then you are in worse taking then Jack.
Few Capons are cut now except about Darking in Surry; they have been excluded by the turkey, a more magnificent, but perhaps not a better fowl.
Capons in Grease occur in Birch's Life of Henry prince of Wales, p.
For to boyle Fesauntes, Partyches Capons and Curlewes .
Was sent to Caister by his father on the Saturday before Fastolf's death with capons to be sold to John Rus, purveyor of victuals for the household, but on inquiring for him, found he was absent, and delivered the capons to Sir Thomas Howes.
I present to you also my nephew Mathurin's wife, native of Le Mans, and familiar with that illustrious school of fattening animals, which produces those pullets and capons known as one of the glories and riches of France.
Why, do you suppose the Coll McSheens and Gillises and their kind could subsist unless the Argands and Capons of the Time supported them?
The Argands and the Canters are the aristocrats of the community, and the Capons are the fit priests for such people.
They did not sober us; quite the contrary; we fell to doing what Manzoni's capons did.
One of the Queen's insolent purveyors, to insult the mayor, seized twelve capons out of twenty-four destined for the mayor's table.
The burghers presented to the Duke of Clarence a load of claret andcapons which it took four men to carry.
On the other hand when Edward was again triumphant officers and commissioners of the king of every degree accepted pheasants, geese, capons and red wine.
I hope I can live plain Sancho still, upon a luncheon of bread and a clove of garlic, as contented as Governor Sancho upon capons and partridges.
Upon one long iron spit before the fire fourteen trussed capons turned in unison; the wooden shoes of the basting-maid clattered industriously; and from the chimney came the clank of the invisible smoke-vanes and the be-sooted chains.
For with her secret closets she might make him stand well among the princes, and with her goodly capons set grease upon his ribs, poor soul!
You just had to sit down and eat your fill of roast veal or roast pork, of fattened capons from his farmyard or of fogas[4] from the river, or of the scores of dishes of all kinds of good things which stood temptingly about.
The banquet for to-morrow was prepared, the ox roasted whole, the pigs and the capons stuffed.
My efforts for the good of his soul may prove for the benefit of my own body; and the discourse that is held over venison and capons comes with a fervour and an unction which is marvellously convincing.
Know that capons or chickens be arrayed after one sauce; the chickens shall be sauced with green sauce or veriuyce.
Had you not better have gone home without Lymons to eate Capons with your frends then to stay here without Capons to taste Lymons with us that you call Enemyes?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
