But, betake yourself to mealy vegetables and fruits a few years, and live temperately on them, and then you will perceive the difference, especially in riding in a stage-coach.
I discovered, later, that this youth had started out with another name, but had been given this one on account of a pale, mealy complexion.
He introduced me to another boy by the queer name of Mealy Potatoes.
I worked my week out at the warehouse, and, bidding Mick Walker and Mealy Potatoes good-bye, ran away forthwith.
Our illustration shows a group of Mealy Bugs natural size, with one insect magnified.
Like many other tropical plants, Clerodendron fallax is subject to attack by mealy bug, and this pest may be dealt with by hand picking or by washing the leaves with insecticide two evenings in succession.
Good cultivation not only insures fine specimens, but is often the means of preventing the plants from failing under the attacks of Aphis, Mealy Bug, and other enemies against which the gardener has to fight an unceasing battle.
The Indian Azaleas are apt to be beset by Thrips, as the Grape-vine is by Scale, the Pineapple by Mealy Bug, and the Rose by Green Aphis.
Mealy Bug may be known by its mealy, floury, or cottony appearance.
The fellows down there will soon have their meat cooked and their mealy cakes baked.
There were, in addition, baskets of mealy cakes, which Percy declared were more to the purpose than the tough half-roasted beef.
In the mealy fields, indeed, can be seen the corn in all stages, some just rising above the ground, and the full-grown stalks of others bending with the weight of their yellow heads.
The travellers had but meagre fare, as no meat had as yet been obtained, but mealy cakes and bowls of tea were sufficient to satisfy their hunger for the present.
It contained a gourd of whey, some mealy cakes and cooked buffalo flesh.
The old fellow grimly smiled, and stroked his stomach as if he considered himself still capable of swallowing an unlimited quantity of beef and mealy cakes.
In the far distance were a few kraals with open spaces marking the mealy grounds of the inhabitants, but in other respects the whole country was a perfect wilderness.
This root being dug up, and roasted in hot ashes, yields a great quantity of a mealy farinaceous powder interspersed among the fibres; it is of an agreeable flavour, wholesome, and satisfying to the appetite.
Saccharification may be recognized by the following signs: The mash loses its first white mealy look, and changes to dark brown.
Pare and grate raw, mealy potatoes, and put to each pint of the potato pulp a couple of quarts of cold water.
Boil Carolina or mealy Irish potatoes, till very soft--when peeled, mash and strain them.
They will not be mealy if they lie soaking in the water without boiling.
Take the whitemealy kind of potatoes--pare them, and put them into just boiling water enough to cover them--add a little salt.
They are more mealy to peel them as soon as tender, and then put back in the pot without any water, and set in a warm place where they will steam, with the lid of the pot off.
And when you goes up to Steve and shows yourself, I take it the door'll be shut in the face of the mealy one what they've all been so took up with this long while.
A light mealy powder will probably have been observed afterwards on the fingers that have touched the victim's wings.
On Sundays, when he was washed and dressed-up to appear at church, his head seemed still to retain the flour, though it had gone from his clothes, and his ruddy face had no mealy vail on it.
Old Luke meantime went in his mealy garb and with his care-marked and powdered face, to his mill and back, and many an hour of sad cogitation he had, as his clappers knocked and his sacks filled, on what was to become of this wild lad.
Each member is supplied with a wooden spoon, and with these they eat mealymeal as long as there is any to be eaten.
He does not work after he has become the possessor of several wives, and the corn is planted, hoed, husked and ground into mealy meal by the wives.
The fat gentleman lifted his hat with a mealy smile, and the carriage rolled away.
His face was very full, and of a sort of dry, mealy pallor.
They were mealy and white, and Mike had already placed several where they were sure to do the most good.
The deft little trick he had performed many times, but never before had he been victimized by what seemed to be a rich, mealy potato.
Should he ask for any, he may be allowed Panada, light Soup, Bread, Soups made of farinaceous or mealy Vegetables, or a little Milk.
The best Diet would be that of farinaceous mealy Soups, made of various leguminous Grains, and of Milk and Water, which is much better than the usual Custom of swallowing different Oils.
They should not eat Flesh, Flesh-broth, nor Eggs; but live solely on Soups made of farinaceous or mealy Substances.
There's a beautiful piece of beef in the pot, not oversalted, and some mealy potatoes and suet dumplings.
With a convulsive unconscious movement her right hand clenched nervously within her muff and crushed the rich mealy potato it held until the flesh of the potato was forced between the fingers of her glove.
At home sixpence was sixpence, and would buy seven pounds of fine mealy potatoes; but here sixpence was nothing--certainly it was not more than a halfpenny.
The plants are a pure white throughout, and both stem and pileus are covered with small chalk-white mealy tufts.
The peridium is thin and delicate, breaking into fragments; creamy white in the young stage, and clothed with delicate warts, so minute as to give the surface a soft mealy appearance, the under surface somewhat plicate.
Peridium flaccid above, with mealy coating, obtuse, at length collapsing, the sterile stratum cellulose.
Gills whitish or paler than the cap, growing mealywith the shedding of the profuse white spores, and often spotted with reddish-brown stains, adnate, ending with decurrent tooth.
Embryo long and slender, straightish or curved, in mealy albumen; cotyledons narrow.
Embryo coiled into a ring around the mealy albumen, when there is any, or else conduplicate, or spiral.
Embryo in one of the angles of the mealy albumen, somewhat curved.
Seed horizontal or vertical, lenticular; the coat crustaceous; embryo coiled partly or fully round the mealy albumen.
Seed upon a basal funicle, the embryo (in ours) surrounding the mealy albumen.
They were all getting an education, and hardly one of them knew how much the happiness of a home depends upon having the potatoes mealy and not soggy.
With mealy bags and boxes they built up a breastwork, and this they held all night, in spite of the desperate efforts of the Zulus to capture it.
White and back of a mealy white, and the blue crested or King fisher are found on every part of the Columbia and it's waters and are the same with those of the U States.
Species Somewhat larger of a light brown colour, with a mealy coloured back.
Composed of a number of capellary white flexable Strong fibers among which is a mealy or Starch like Substance which readily disolves in the mouth and Seperates from the fibers which are then rejected.
If you had spent more of your time off the farm, and seen more horses, you'd know that mealy noses like his are not uncommon.
And I learned then that mealynoses are by no means rare.
XX A MEALY NOSE It was true, as the bays had said, that Twinkleheels had a mealy nose.
Or mash a pound of mealy potatoes, and pulp them through a cullender; add two ounces of brown sugar, and two spoonfuls of common yeast.
The yellow are better than the white, but the rough red are the most mealyand nutritive.
Weigh half a pound of mealy potatoes after they are boiled or steamed, and rub them while warm into a pound and a half of fine flour, dried a little before the fire.
If the red spider or the mealy bug attack them, they may be syringed with tobacco water.
The Crotons make good window-garden subjects, although they are very liable to the attack of the mealy bug.
Where there are only a few mealy bugs, the plant may be gone over with a soft brush and the Insects crushed.
Coleus and bouvardias are among the plants upon which mealy bugs are most often found.
The most troublesome or common Insects with which the amateur is likely to meet in the window-garden or conservatory are the red spider, mite, mealy bug, aphis, and scale.
For mealy bugs, two tablespoonfuls of the oil to one pint of water will make an effective dipping or spraying solution.
