What I have given my word to do, I must stick to', said the other; so he took the flitchand set off.
What I have given my word to do, I must stick to' said the other; so he took the flitch and set off.
So the man with the flitch thanked the other for his good advice, and gave a great knock at the Devil's door.
I ought to have this flitch for our Christmas dinner; but since you have all set your hearts on it, I suppose I must give it up to you; but if I sell it at all, I'll have for it that quern behind the door yonder.
I ought to have this flitch for our Christmas dinner; but since you have all set your hearts on it, I suppose I must give it up to you; but if I sell it at all, I'll have for it the quern behind the door yonder.
What I have given my word to do, I must stick to," said the other; so he took the flitch and set off.
Two married couples have just been examined at Dunmow, and awarded the 'historic' flitch for conjugal happiness.
Most of the men carried guns, and some had even loaded themselves with provisions--a flitch of bacon or a bag of potatoes--against a possible siege.
I've a superstition that Flitchought to drive you from the church-door.
Flitch says the accident occurred through his driving up the bank to save you from the wheels.
Here seemed to come dismal matter forFlitch to relate.
Flitch may go and whisper that down the neck of his empty whisky-flask," said Horace De Craye.
Sir Willoughby directed the footman in attendance to unload the fly and gather up the fragments of porcelain carefully, biddingFlitch be quick in his departing.
Flitch helped me out as well as in, good fellow; just dusting my coat as he did it.
That accident effected by Mr. Flitchhad fired the shot.
The custom of giving a flitch of bacon, on the well-known conditions, is not peculiar to Dunmow.
But ten to one of these have seen something more and yet made a hearty meal of flitch and potatoes.
He'd been there a week, camped out, restricted to potato and flitch diet, and had not wet a line.
Bait it wid a flitch of bacon on the one side, and a collop o' fresh meat on the other, now before the praties comes in, and you're sure of him.
Well, but does it go in the Greek against a flitch o' bacon and a wisp o' greens, your reverence?
Neither Mr. Flitch nor I can make them understand that we can only deal with cases in the immediate neighbourhood.
Mr. Flitch will put me in an omnibus at London Bridge.
I think," she said, "that if you have no more messages for Mr. Flitch I had better start.
Carlile and Isis, or rather Mr. and Mrs. Carlile, were unanimously voted to be the happiest married pair in the village, and entitled to the flitch of bacon.
We fairly won the bequeathed flitch of bacon to a year's happy marriage.
Put some at the bottom of a box or chest long enough to hold a flitch of bacon; lay in one flitch, then put in more ashes, then another flitch, and cover this with six or eight inches of the ashes.
The flitch ought not to be dried up to the hardness of a board, and yet it ought to be perfectly dry.
You slave here the year round for a flitch of bacon and a bit of linen?
Put some at the bottom of a box or chest long enough to hold a flitch of bacon; lay in one flitch, and then put in more ashes, then another flitch, and cover this with six or eight inches of the ashes.
The skin side of the pork is rubbed over with a mixture of fifty parts by weight of salt, and one part of saltpetre in powder, and the incised parts of the ham or flitch, and the inside of the flitch covered with the same.
Monsey in the corner looked aghast, and crept closer under the flitch of bacon that hung above him.
Those who succeeded in doing so for a certain length of time were publicly rewarded by the gift of a piece of boar's flesh, for which in later times, the English and Viennese substituted a flitch of bacon or a ham.
In Vienna the ham or flitch of bacon was hung over the city gate, whence the successful candidate was expected to bring it down, after he had satisfied the judges that he lived in peace with his wife, but was not under petticoat rule.
Mr. Fillet armed himself with the poker, which happened to be red hot; the ostler pulled down a rusty firelock, that hung by the roof, over a flitch of bacon.
A revival of the custom was effected in 1855 by Harrison Ainsworth, author of the novel The Flitch of Bacon, but the scene of the ceremony was transferred to the town hall of Great Dunmow.
Andrews, History of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon Customs, 1877.
Mr. Flitchhad not a single grievance here; only one day the demon seizes him with the notion of bettering himself he wants his independence, and he presents himself to me with a story of a shop in our county town.
Flitch is a wonderful conjurer, but the virtue is out of him for the next four-and-twenty hours.
Flitch appealed to his former master for testimony that he was a good and a careful driver.
That ill-omened man Flitch had sidled round by the bushes to within a few feet of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flitch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
