Walter plucked one of the ripe fruit and bit into it hungrily, but spat out the mouthfulin disgust.
Amongst the rules of etiquette in vogue with the lower classes in Spain, is the custom of offering you a mouthful of whatever they may be eating while you are holding intercourse with them.
The Empress and Prince both struck out, the one shouting as much as was consistent with a mouthful of water, "Save my son!
Just then another passer-by begins to knock on the window--another who was dying for a mouthful of coffee.
He swallowed a pulpy mouthful of bread as if there went with it the disordered and suffocating mass of his memories.
The origin of this custom is probably due to the barren nature of this land where every mouthful of food is precious, and where a man must literally work to live.
Now, however, over six hundred miles of ice without a stick of shelter ormouthful of food stared me in the face.
There was not a mouthful of food to spare in the place, and we ate from our own stores.
That night, after the evening meal, every mouthful of food we had left was two pounds of Carnyl and fourteen frozen fish, and this must suffice for nine men and sixty ravenous dogs!
Uncas, take my steel, and kindle a fire; a mouthful of a tender broil will give natur' a helping hand, after so long a trail.
Come aloft and take a mouthful o' good, sweet air, pal.
But a mouthful left--well, here's to a bloody shirt and the Brotherhood o' the Coast.
She told me that Swallows had to fly one wing-beat at a time, and that dinners had to be eaten one mouthful at a time, and that nothing really worth while could be done in a minute.
Fowls, you know, have no teeth, and no matter how big a mouthful one takes he has to swallow it whole.
I declare," said she, wiping her eyes with her forefeet, "I can hardly gather a mouthful of honey for thinking of her.
It's so salt that sugar doesn't sweeten it," added Susie, making a wry face at the first mouthful and taking a hasty swallow of water.
There is the water, and I will pour in a mouthful of wine.
And of course she did, although Mrs. Purling looked as if she wished every mouthful would choke her.
He had an appetite for gold not easily appeased, and four or five thousand a year was to him but a mouthful to be swallowed at one gulp.
When he was older and knew more about life, he understood that this was to keep him from swallowing a loose tooth with a mouthful of meat, and that Kittens who are given all sorts of food are very likely to do this and bring on fits.
Mr. Tumble-bug gulped down his last mouthfuland answered, "I'm ready now.
He had just taken the sixth mouthful from an especially fine leaf when she alighted on him.
Then he went on thinking about how miserable his old companion must be in the guardroom, watched by sentries; and as he kept on eating for form's sake, every mouthful seemed to go against him, and he wished the dinner was over.
Frank was marched off to the messroom; but he felt as if every mouthful would choke him, and that he would have given anything to have gone and shared Andrew Forbes's confinement, even if he had only received hard words for his pains.
She still complains about her digestion, merely out of habit, but she never misses a mouthful for it.
At present it enveloped everything--not a blade of vegetation, nor a mouthfulfor a wild-goat could be seen.
We had already reached the critical point, and the ponies well know now the importance of caution--step by step, with a halt at every fourth or fifth to crop a mouthful of grass, they slowly advance.
We haven't a mouthful of food, and there's no way of our getting any.
They had eaten the lastmouthful before starting, leaving behind some food which they might have brought, but which was not deemed necessary.
Here I've worked and worked and fussed and fussed to get dinner and nobody's ate a mouthful but one, and he's the one that gets it for nothin'.
After a while Azuba came and announced that she guessed she'd get a mouthful of fresh air, if she wasn't needed.
To snatch us up at a mouthful it was necessary for him to turn on his back, which motion necessarily caused his legs to kick up helplessly in the air.
He stabbed a large piece of the vol au vent at last, and was too glad of his luck not to take a mouthful of it.
At the end^of the half hour, the young man took another mouthful of the biscuit, half emptied the tumbler, fell back on his pillow, and was soon in a sweet sleep.
The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties.
Leaning forward he spat out a mouthfulof blood, and another tooth clicked audibly upon the rocks.
You spoke a mouthful when you said we'd be'n friends--we're friends yet.
For everymouthful Ghvthisavari took she took a basketful.
I know a certain town where there is no water, and every mouthful has to be carried a great distance, and an enormous price is paid for it!
A mouthfulof water was given to the animals, and they again started at a brisk pace.
The captain unscrewed the top of the flask and poured a mouthful of wine between the teeth of the senseless lad.
Yet we know perfectly well that every mouthful of food we eat, the material for the clothing we wear and for the houses we live in, every breath we breathe must come from this Divine Source, of infinite supply.
