And the only use that is known for their ridiculous wealth is to attract to their larder a continual supply of food.
Eager to replenish his larder in so welcome a way, he rose and crept forward once more in the thicket.
Beef, whether smoked or fresh, as an exclusive diet, would become tiresome, and since they might be in for a long stay on the island he meant to fill their larder as best he could.
She had to get up again and drag her aching feet to the little larder for the butter, and as soon as she had settled herself again she had to get up and get a teaspoon.
While the kettle was coming to the boil she laid the cloth and cut some bread and butter; then she went to the larder and brought out an apple pie.
The cooking things and the larder were all present, and dinner-hour was at hand; but, alas!
Our larder having been low of late, we effected the purchase of a sheep here, for which we paid two shillings.
It’s not every body who has a taste for meat that has been hung a fortnight in the larder to give it a flavor.
Why, Kate, you were a good while in the larder yourself at Timahoe before you got a husband,” replied my uncle.
Looking in the larder to lay out the supper, Mark saw the mushrooms which had been forgotten; he hunted out the gridiron, and put two handsful of them on.
Such a dish serves us for either bread or meat, or for both on a pinch, therefore if we lads are careful not to waste our time, Captain Smith may never come without finding in the larder something that can be eaten.
It is quite possible to get them fat enough for the larder by increasing the supply of maize during the last fortnight or so before your shoot takes place.
Rats are the ducks' worst enemies, and I have known one old doe rat which had no less than sixteen wild ducks' eggs in her larder when she was dug out and killed.
The larder of Stone Dean had spoiled the appetites of both; while its cellar had only sharpened their craving for drink.
The larder lay temptingly open--as also the wine-cellar; and although the captors of Henry Holtspur had foraged freely upon both, the short time allowed them for ransacking had prevented their making a clear sweep of the shelves.
I did not care for these--the larder was already stocked with them; I had killed a brace on the preceding day.
It might be welcome at the mess-table, since I hear that the larder is not overstocked.
Braesig waited as long as Bolster had often done before, expecting the larder door to open every minute, and when it did not, he returned to Joseph in the parlour with his ears hanging like Bolster's under the same circumstances.
I can't go down to the larder myself, but let us have no blunders.
While Tom thus spoke Kenelm had summoned his servant, and ordered up such refreshments as could be found in the larderof a bachelor in lodgings.
We would also have an opportunity of doing old Jerikoff a favour by filling hislarder for him.
Not that we wanted food, however; Jerikoff the farmer's larder was well stored, and he was very good to us indeed.
Such sacrifices as they made from year to year are not to be lightly esteemed, yet the supplying of the larder and of the crib was the smallest part of the sacrifice required for such an offering to the Lord.
The best bed in the best cabin of the settler was at his command, and the best food of the fattest larder of the neighborhood was set before him, and this was often both abundant and luxurious.
Master," said Morano, "if they find him in less than his usual health they will get their dinners for themselves in the larder and dine and afterwards sleep.
And later Rodriguez sat down alone to his supper at a table well and variously laden, for the doors of mine hosts' larder were opened wide in his honour; but Rodriguez ate sparingly, as do weary men.
But Felipe knows a trick or two more than the dogs, and if he do not fill your larder by sunset, may his left leg be withered like his right!
Well, it might not please folks accustomed to city feasts; but Ardlaugh was not yet without a joint of venison in the larder and a bottle of wine, maybe two, maybe three, for any guest its master chose to make welcome.
I'm persistent in wantin' to get up which ary side my larder is; don't you see, all on yer?
In the cabin active preparations were making for an extended hunting-expedition, which the empty state of the larder rendered absolutely necessary.
From the size of the morsel, the stock in the larder seemed to have run low, even in this article, which is nothing but codfish salted by British heretics for the benefit of the souls and bodies of the true sons of the Church.
One of his companions offered for sale two rabbits and some partridges he had shot on the moors, which L'Isle bought, like a provident traveler, who does not rely too much on the larder of the next inn.
It was a townish place, with a greatlarder set out; the house throughout dirty.
