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Example sentences for "collop"

Lexicographically close words:
collodion; colloguing; colloid; colloidal; colloids; collops; colloquia; colloquial; colloquialism; colloquialisms
  1. Is it come to be a sin to laugh, to warm our hands at a fire, to prefer a fried collop to a wafer?

  2. Good Master Nature,' mocked one, 'hast ever a collop in thy pocket for a starved woodman?

  3. It's a dear collop that's cut out of my own flesh.

  4. Shepherd says of La Pucelle: "God knows, thou art a collop of my flesh.

  5. An' it'll heyt aught i'th world, fro a collop to a dur latch.

  6. The hide was opened in fifty places, and collop after collop of warm flesh and muscle--sliced and scooped from the bone--was borne off in triumph.

  7. A tournedos is a thin collop of beef, steeped in a marinade for twenty-four hours (personally I prefer it without the aid of the marine) and fried lightly.

  8. We wonder if in Australia the long-forgotten Scotch collop has been revived?

  9. In the old days when he had flesh and little else to eat, he could broil it on the coals; and a Scotch collop is perhaps equal to a Turkish kebob.

  10. Other Hashes or Scotch Collop of any Joint of Veal, either in Loyn, Leg, Rack or Shoulder.

  11. Cut the other collop to fry as thick as half a crown, and as long as a card: hack them and fry them as the former, but fry them not to hard.

  12. Still had he the collop he had brought from his own domain, but now, in that his hunger was great, he ate it; sorely had the sea wearied him.

  13. Then he took a great collop of it, and carried it away in his mouth.

  14. A quarter of venison and a collop or two among four!

  15. A whisper was the result of this request; but, in the end, a savoury collop was set upon the table.

  16. Matty was preparing dinner; but it was a meagre and homely fare--a little oaten bread, and one spare collop which had been given her by a neighbour.

  17. Sandy M'Collop devised a counter picture, wherein the barber-surgeon of King Edward the Confessor was drawn, operating upon the beard of that monarch.

  18. The fame of Mr. M'Collop as an artist has long since been established.

  19. M'Collop is here: he made a great figure at a cardinal's reception in the tartan of the M'Collop.

  20. No one would suppose from the gloomy character of his works that Sandy M'Collop is one of the most jovial souls alive.

  21. Collop Monday is the day before Shrove Tuesday, and in many parts is made a day of great feasting on account of the approaching Lent.

  22. PIG-FRY--This is a Collop Monday dish, and is a necessary appendage to "cracklings.

  23. I am going to ask Susanna to ask Mrs. M'Collop what it means.

  24. We are anxious to have a walk before the weather changes, if possible, but we shall be out for luncheon and in for dinner, and Mrs. M'Collop may give us anything she pleases.

  25. She came up from Glasgow to Edinburgh for the day, and went to see Mrs. M'Collop just as our telegram arrived.

  26. Mrs. M'Collop appeared from the basement, and vouchsafed the information that she had seen 'the young leddy rinnin' after the regiment.

  27. In corners where all was clean and spotless before, Mrs. M'Collop is digging with the broom, and the maiden Boots is following her with a damp cloth.

  28. If so, then the famous Stuart charm has been lost somewhere, for Mrs M'Collop certainly possesses no alluring curves of temperament.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.