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Example sentences for "parritch"

Lexicographically close words:
parricide; parricides; parried; parries; parrit; parroquet; parroquets; parrot; parrots; parry
  1. Wild Robin, loathing his withered beans and unsalted broths, longed intensely for one little breath of fragrant steam from the toothsome parritch on his father's table, one glance at a roasted potato.

  2. And they needed parritch in their wee stomachs against the morning's chill.

  3. They paid for the parritch I had for breakfast, and the bit o' beef I'll be eating for my dinner.

  4. And the parritch and a' the other Scottish dishes tickle my palate something grand.

  5. How will ye like to be turned into reeky holes like this, where ye can hardly see your fingers afore ye, and be reduced to the parritch and the horn spoon?

  6. Ye dinna like my parritch sae weel as hers!

  7. Or maybe ye wad prefar a drap o' parritch an' milk?

  8. She cudna be in sic a mist o' benevolence and parritch hertitness gien she cud lippen till a wiser.

  9. The boy flurried by the presence of the audience, and in his attempt to be as explicit as possible, thus cried out, "Fayther, yer parritch is ready.

  10. Parritch may be said to have been the food of his imagination, for he continually spoke of it, but it was with something considerably more succulent that he nourished his material frame.

  11. They wadna ken their ain parritch gin ye didna haud the spune fornent their nebs.

  12. The cupboard contained pickles, spices, and a good many bottles; for his fare was dainty, and far different from the vigorous parritch on which he professed to subsist.

  13. But I maun be steerin', or it's cauld parritch I'll sup this nicht.

  14. Haud yer noise, lassie, an' licht the fire--pit on the parritch pat.

  15. I ken noo that Archie's parritch is weel made and his bannocks weel baked; and a' the wark is weel dune and naething wasted," she said to her husband.

  16. Jeannie, ye will see till 't that there is plenty o' parritch made, for if the meal gies oot ye can hae mair.

  17. Fine parritch and bannocks would then be made in this hoose; and wha kens whether the totties" (potatoes) "would come to the board cauld or het!

  18. Weel, mither, it will hae to rain parritch frae anither quarter before I set my dish to catch it.

  19. Here is that in this house wad hold all Zetland in meal for a twelvemonth, and ye grudge a cogfu' of warm parritch to me, that has sic a charge!

  20. She'll pe perfectly able to make ta parritch herself, my poy Malcolm.

  21. I canna lea' my milk parritch to come an' luik.

  22. But he had no sooner gone, than it occurred to her, that parritch for a lord ought to be made somewhat differently from those intended for a plebeian stomach.

  23. By the time his lordship came up, the parritch was ready, and a dish of them placed before him.

  24. The robin red-breast and the wran Coost out about the parritch pan; And ere the robin got a spune, The wran she had the parritch dune.

  25. The parritch has put a bit o' colour in your cheeks.

  26. He's no' to peety if he has ane o' my guid cauf beds to sleep on, and a bowl o' parritch in the morning.

  27. Meantime, I had better get the parritch ready.

  28. Noo, lad, yer parritch is ready and I'll juist dish them for ye.


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