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Example sentences for "gruel"

Lexicographically close words:
grudged; grudges; grudging; grudgingly; grue; grueling; gruelling; gruels; grueso; gruesome
  1. If you cannot get the flour, how can you prepare the gruel from the grain?

  2. If the attack is more severe and attended by fever and vomiting all food and milk should be stopped at once in children of all ages, and only broth, barley water or some thin gruel given.

  3. Stir up the entire quart of milk, add thirteen ounces barley or oatmeal gruel and to this add one tablespoonful of granulated or two of milk sugar dissolved in boiled water, a pinch of salt and a pinch of bicarbonate of soda.

  4. Give him one or two meals daily of modified milk made up of oatmeal gruel instead of barley, and give him plenty of water between his meals.

  5. Barley gruel is better than oatmeal gruel unless baby is constipated.

  6. Thin barley gruel well strained is an excellent food for this disease.

  7. Any cereal mush may be thinned with water, milk or cream and made into a gruel, or the gruel may be made directly from the grain or flour.

  8. When can you begin to add barley and oatmeal gruel to the baby's milk?

  9. Oatmeal gruel can be substituted for barley gruel if there is constipation.

  10. Give at first one feeding of plain milk and barley gruel daily; later two feedings, then three feedings, etc.

  11. Milk two parts, oatmeal or barley gruel one part, and from ten to twelve ounces in all may be given in a cup.

  12. Pore little eejut," said Brannigan, much moved by this mark of confidence, "ye shall have some gruel quick as I kin make it.

  13. On Brannigan's gruel Mary made shift to survive, and even to grow, and soon she was able to discard it in favor of her natural forage of leaves and twigs.

  14. If the mouth is very sore give the remedies in gruel form.

  15. Give large doses of Pratts Cow Remedy in gruel form and gradually reduce quantity.

  16. Give regularly Pratts Cow Remedy mixed with warm water as gruel until animal is relieved, then mix with the feed.

  17. Like other dishes prepared from the grains, gruel needs a long, continuous cooking.

  18. Prepare the gruel as directed for Gluten Gruel No.

  19. The meal is stirred into a thin gruel and cooked by pouring over smooth, flat, heated stones, the light shining tissues being rapidly taken off and folded, and subsequently made up in bundles.

  20. Garcia and Coronado tried a little of the gruel and a good deal of the brandy and water, and found, as people usually do under such circumstances, that nothing did them any good.

  21. The smaller dose taken in a little warm water or gruel is useful as a sudorific in cases of cold and chill, to induce and promote the proper action of the skin which has been checked.

  22. A pint and a half of gruel or fat broth, a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of common salt, and a lump of butter; mix, to be injected slowly.

  23. Children who are brought up by hand, that is to say, who are not nursed by mother or wet nurse, require an occasioned change of diet, and thin gruel affords a wholesome alternation to milk.

  24. She took a pipkin from the hearth, where a small fire burned, though it was summer weather, as Dickie could see by the green tree-tops that swayed and moved outside in the sun, poured some gruel out of it into a silver basin.

  25. If I had taken her straight home without stopping to gruel her she would have reached home all right, and had her gruel there and laid down comfortably.

  26. The mare was getting leg weary, so I unwisely stopped at an inn, six miles from home, and put her in the stable to give her warm gruel with beer in it.

  27. The gruel disappeared, and the boys whispered each other and winked at Oliver, while his next neighbours nudged him.

  28. Perhaps the milk would digest more easily if it were first beaten and slightly seasoned with a pinch of salt, or if a little strained gruel were added to mechanically divide the curd.

  29. If curds persist in the stools milk is to be withheld for a time, and crushed wheat, barley gruel or other diluents should be given alone or in combination with the thoroughly beaten white of egg.

  30. The gruel is to be prepared fresh every morning, and the above quantity will last about twenty-four hours.

  31. IV-41] The Romans made their gruel of all kinds of flour.

  32. IV-42] There is but one step from gruel to bread: the Romans perceived it.

  33. Egeria, taught his subjects the art of parching corn, of converting it into flour by means of mortars, and of making that gruel with which he liked to regale himself.

  34. As this kind of gruel is a powerful cordial, it is to be borne in mind that it should never be administered unless ordered by a medical man.

  35. But the gruel did not hiss and sputter as angrily, nor did the erst glowing cinders look so black, as did Mr William Jarker when he found "the missus still abed," and Mrs Sims in possession.

  36. I have usually preferred cakes of Indian meal, or wheat meal unbolted and baked very hard, to gruel or pudding.

  37. Milk Sugar 7 teaspoons Barley Gruel to make a quart Lime Water 4 oz.

  38. Milk Sugar 6-1/2 teaspoons Barley Gruel to make a quart Lime Water 4 oz.

  39. Gruel is prepared by cooking one level tablespoon of any good barley flour in a pint of water with a pinch of salt.

  40. Milk Sugar 8 teaspoons Barley Gruel to make a quart Lime Water 4 oz.

  41. Milk Sugar 7-1/2 teaspoons Barley Gruel to make a quart Lime Water 4 oz.

  42. Milk Sugar 6 teaspoons Barley Gruel to make a quart Lime Water 4 oz.

  43. As soon as possible, I bought some rice gruel and tea for breakfast, and then once more made a personal search after my things.

  44. When I took my basin of gruel before retiring, I would not have exchanged it for a prince's feast.

  45. In directing the constitutional treatment, our chief aim must be to support the animal system with plenty of gruel until rumination is restored.

  46. Bran washes, green food, and flour-gruel should be given, with plenty of salt.

  47. The animal should have a little gruel and a bottle of porter given to her every five or six hours, and the vulva should be bathed frequently with cold water.

  48. In that case, a portion of the gruel with which the animal is drenched escapes for a few days; but I always found that the wound healed by granulation, without any particular attention.

  49. He would not taste the gruel that night, although his nurse coaxed and scolded till they were both weary.

  50. Nancy prepared the gruel to her liking, and brought it to the bedside; but to get it swallowed was another matter.

  51. While it was warming, Alice washed Ellen's gruel cup and spoon; and presently she had the satisfaction of seeing Ellen eating the broth with that keen enjoyment none know but those that have been sick and are getting well.

  52. I know how to manage you; if you make any fuss I shall just tickle you finely," said Nancy, as she prepared a bed of coals, and set the cup of gruel on it to get hot.

  53. Well, is it time for you to take your gruel or one of the little things?

  54. Never mind, it has had gruel in it; I'll set the tin pail on the fire; it won't hurt it.

  55. Let me feel your pulse: — yes, your pulse says gruel is wanting.

  56. She left the gruel to simmer by the fire, and taking the coverlid from the bed, spread it over the arm-chair, then she lifted the sick woman as if she had been a child, and placed her in it.

  57. Will I make you some gruel or a cup of tea?

  58. Why could not she have allowed one of the other women to take the gruel in charge?

  59. Then, too, her gruel was very wretched stuff, with almost invariably the smell of pine smoke upon it, like the evil taste that is said to mix itself up with a witch's best concocted dainties.

  60. After more gruel and the last cup of tea I was to have in my lonely wanderings, I renewed my search for Hubbard.

  61. Before going to sleep I made some more gruel and tea, drinking them both as a duty.

  62. The cup of thin gruel that I made from the green lumps of mould nauseated me, and I had to brew some tea to settle my stomach and stimulate me.

  63. Each boy got only one helping, and the bowls never needed washing, because, when the meal was through, there was not a drop of gruel left in them.

  64. The boys had nothing but thin gruel for their meals, with an onion twice a week and half a roll on Sundays.

  65. One day they felt so terribly hungry that one of the biggest boys said unless he got another helping of gruel he was afraid he would have to eat the boy who slept next him.

  66. They ate in a great stone hall, in one end of which stood the big copper of gruel which Mr. Bumble ladled out.

  67. When the food was ready they brought gruel for that foreign youth to drink, and it was very hot.

  68. Binti Ali took it and threw it away, saying, "Am I a woman, that you bring me cold gruel like that?

  69. And then, when the gruel is eaten up, smash the bowl on the ground.

  70. It is even hard to eat gruel if you are not used to it.


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