When the piece is large, as of the South-Down or Cheviot, the gristly parts of the ribs may be divided from the true ribs, and helped separately.
Their cattle have great bunches on their fore-shoulders, in size and shape like sugar-loaves, which are of a gristly substance and excellent eating.
The tongue is always bony or gristly and immovable.
It is not a fibrous substance as other leather is, but naturally of a compact, gristly character.
If oysters, boil them four minutes, and take away the beard and gristly part; they may either be put in whole, or cut in bits.
The gristlyofficers held to their match-strings, smothering the excitement of the time.
His small, black, pointed beard and his small moustache quivered on his meagre face, with its gristly nose, like that of his father.
His big gristly nose and his yellow, sunken cheeks reminded Foma of his godfather.
This soon gives place to a watery fluid, which in a fortnight thickens to a gristly substance, strong enough to hold them in place.
Shave off the thick, gristly cord near the backbone, as this, if left on, interferes with cutting thin slices.
Cut off thegristly brisket, then separate it into sections.
Cut across from left to right where the ribs have been broken, separating the gristly breast from the upper portion.
All bones will separate easily at the joint when the cord or tendon and gristly portion connecting them have been cut.
The elder opened it with his gristly hand and intoning words that Amuel did not know, drew out from it a green powder and sprinkled it on the fire.
He would put out a gristly hand; and into it Amuel Sleggins would put the letter from China, and rejoice that his duty was done, and would turn and stride away.
He gave his postman's knock on the shut oak door, heard it reverberate through the silent house, saw the grim elder man and his gristly hand, gave up the green letter from China, and strode away.
The breast of veal consists of two parts,--the rib-bones and the gristly brisket.
In their broken state tie them up in a bag, and put them in the stock-pot; adding the gristly parts of cold meat, and trimmings, which can be used for no other purpose.
Do you remember my little boy who said he was going to the angels, and he would get lots of gristly pork up there?
The breast of veal consists of two parts,—the rib-bones and thegristly brisket.
Cut all the meat from your cold leg of lamb; crack the bone to splinters; put on, with gristly bits of meat, skin, etc.
Have all gristly parts of the beef cut away, and such bones removed as will injure the shape, or embarrass the carver.
Crack the skeleton to pieces, and put it, with the skin, stuffing, and gristly bits, into a saucepan.
Strictly speaking, it has no back-bone, or vertebra, but still Science has been compelled to class it among the vertebrates because is has a gristly cartilage where the back-bone is found in the higher forms.
Some are protected by a hard shell, while others have a gristly outer skin, serving as an armor, while others still are naked.
As also in the provision which Nature hath made for the heart; which in this Animal is very strangely secured, and lies immured in a cartilage or gristly substance.
With rise in evolution, and during the progress of human embryonic development, these bones become fewer through their early gristly union or their synostosis.
The lancelet has a spinal cord enclosed in a half-gristly canal (the notochord).
The mild acids produced by the fermentation of these materials not only neutralise the lime but also reduce the gristly nature of the skins to a soft, supple condition.
When the hides or skins are in the limed state, they are gristly and firm in texture.
It can easily be dissected out in the lamprey--a long gristly rod.
In gristly fishes, like skates and sharks, the brain is much more promising.
Except ingristly fishes, the external opening to the ear has been lost, so that sound-waves and coarser vibrations must influence the inner ear, which is well developed, through the surrounding flesh and bones.
He had greatgristly bones to gnaw and play with, and Betty Murdoch, with a little solid-rubber ball, played with him also by the hour together.
However, Jan was in earnest now; more so than he had ever been since, more than five months earlier, he had flung his gristly bulk upon the vixen fox who slew his sister in the cave.
Isn't he toogristly in the legs yet, for the weight he carries?
