When I got up I found the house was empty, so I went to dine at the pastry-cook's, where I found Zenobia and her husband, who had come to enjoy the leavings of our supper.
Many other of our wild creatures take up with the leavings of their betters or strongers.
Do you think Jacinto Quesada will be satisfied with your leavings and the leavings of your brats and wenches?
I ascertained that the cause of the row was, that Sarah had accused Mrs. Birrell of tearing the pages out of my diary to wrap up some kitchen fat and leavings which she had taken out of the house last week.
Mrs. Birrell had slapped Sarah's face, and said she had taken nothing out of the place, as there was "never no leavings to take.
Every morning little closed box-like carts, lined with zinc and furnished with ventilators, drew up in front of the larger Parisian kitchens and carried away the leavings of the restaurants, the embassies, and State Ministries.
These leavings were conveyed to the market cellars and there sorted.
M81 Ideas and customs as to the leavings of food in Melanesia and New Guinea.
In Tana, one of the New Hebrides, people bury or throw into the sea the leavings of their food, lest these should fall into the hands of the disease-makers.
M82 Ideas and customs as to the leavings of food in Africa, Celebes, India, and ancient Rome.
M81) Ideas and practices of the same sort prevail, or used to prevail, in Melanesia; all that was needed to injure a man was to bring the leavings of his food into contact with a malignant ghost or spirit.
And will God take your lip-labour, or the leavings of your flesh by way of alms, while the world and fleshly pleasure have your hearts?
She still knits and crochets and hooks rugs--not from leavings of the family's wearing clothes--but from leavings she buys from the mills.
Do, do me a favor and let me send you up a can of the leavings every night.
Yes, there were good times coming; and, when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer, Tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town.
Nay e’en when Bráhmans first have fed, They loathe the meal for others spread, And from the leavings turn with scorn, As bulls avoid a fractured horn.
Of the cleft belfry like a fiery wedge, Then sank, a huge flame on its socket edge, With leavings on the gray glass oriel-pane Ghastly some minutes more.
As a dog, however, I suffer a great deal of trouble, I do not get enough food: my only food is the leavings of your supper, but that is not sufficient to fill the maw of such a large beast as you have made me.
In the hut, however, there was a mouse, which used to live upon the leavings of the Rishi's supper.
Much more he that glutteth his own and his family's and retainers' fleshly desires first, and then giveth to the poor only the leavings of luxury, and so much as their fleshly lusts can spare.
And the Baron paid the rent of her little apartment, furnished, as we know, with the leavings of her friend Valerie's former boudoir and bedroom.
To seats around the first The skilful, vigilant, and strong are beckon'd: Their hunger and their thirst The rest must quell with leavings at the second.
I worked so hard," continued Billy, "that she said if I would throw the leavings in the woods, then I could come after you to see about the bugs.
Where did you put the leavings from that grape juice?
Yes, there were good times coming; and when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer, Tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town.
The dinner, not very luxurious, consisting of the leavings from the day before, passed off without incident, almost silently.
Madame, at lunch, as they were finishing the leavings of the dinner.
Tis a chance such as comes but once in a kobari's life, who must needs fill his belly a many times with other folk's leavings ere he find a grain of corn to stay his own hunger withal.
The baleful heat of faction rapidly warmed into life poisonous creeping things which had long been lying torpid, discarded spies and convicted false witnesses, the leavings of the scourge, the branding iron and the shears.
