Privates Bonmont, Cocot and Briqueballe were peeling potatoes and throwing them into the cauldron, and as they did so they gave vent to the most harmless of thoughts in words that were few but of an exceeding coarseness.
At the far end of the yard, clothed in his canvas trousers and dirty blouse, stood Private Bonmont, with his comrades, Privates Cocot and Briqueballe, peeling potatoes in front of a cauldron full of water.
Cut the cucumbers into small pieces, after peeling them and taking out the seeds.
Have ready a saucepan of boiling water, salted in the above proportion; put in the marrows after peeling them, and boil them until quite tender.
Cut off the heads, and truss them, the same as a roast fowl, cutting off the toes, and scalding and peeling the feet.
It is made by scalding the roots when they are green and full of sap, then peeling them in cold water and putting them into jars, with a rich syrup; in which state we receive them.
Prepare the chestnuts as in the succeeding recipe, by scalding andpeeling them; put them in a stewpan with the stock and sugar, and simmer them till tender.
Peel it carefully, and place it in the pig-stye--the peeling spoils the quality of the pork.
Throw the peeling away--on the bed in which you have sown annuals for choice--and in the late Spring you will have a row of potatoes which will do you credit.
Mrs. Lazarus was without her orange because she had to wear mittens now, and that made peeling the thing difficult.
Even here the paper waspeeling off the walls, some of the window-glass was broken and the carpet was torn.
Then she hurried to the kitchen and summoned Carmen, who was sitting at a table peeling potatoes.
Throw them into brine, together with your thickest watermelon rinds, peeling off the outside skin.
In peeling fruit, throw it into cold water to keep it from turning dark, and let it remain there till you are ready to throw it in the boiling syrup.
Billy stepped forward through the portal, and found himself in an apartment in which the paper was peeling off the wall from long neglect, and the light only streaked in through cracks in the closed shutters.
Finally, however, he produced a fat wallet, and peeling off two twenty-dollar bills and a ten, he handed them over with a sigh.
Then Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, dropping the pan of potatoes she was peeling for supper, sprang at the ferret.
Tanbark peeling was also forbidden, or only the use of bark of trees soon to be felled was allowed.
Has she visions among the pots and pans, and does she look unutterable things when she is peeling potatoes?
They give a deal more for that sort of picture now than for the old-fashioned cottage-scenes, with a young lady dressed in a drugget petticoat and a pink jacket, sitting peeling potatoes.
He was peeling off the bit of plaster on her arm, under which the scrape had turned the color of an unripe blackberry previous to vanishing altogether.
An old woman, while peeling potatoes, remarked: "All they miss is a dressmaking shop between the floors and a cemetery in the yard and their whole life would stretch before them.
Then Matvey went into the kitchen and began peeling some boiled potatoes which he had probably put away from the day before.
Apple postilla is also made bypeeling the apples and taking out the cores after they are baked, sweetening with sugar, and beating it up with a wooden spoon till it is all of a froth.
If to be fried in slices or shavings, peel some large potatoes, slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as in peeling a lemon.
The room looked, as always, dark and depressing with its sooty black ceiling and paper peeling from the damp walls.
Now from the sides of the car behind, Fanned by its flight through the rushing wind, Burst the flames in a lashing sheet Peeling the paint with its fervid heat, Vomiting sparks like a fiery hail On the cars that rocked in its lurid trail.
With toil-spent lungs and with straining feet They reel from the smoke and the peeling heat To plunge in its grateful tide.
The days when he was ill in this way were the most disagreeable ones of the voyage, and Archie often described afterward his feelings as he sat peeling potatoes with a bucket standing beside him.
There were some very pleasant passengers, but Archie couldn't see that he had a much better time than when he waspeeling potatoes corning over.
When thoroughly cooled, set withoutpeeling into the ice box until ready to use.
The question of peeling is an open one; many claim that the rind gives a richer flavor to the pies as well as a darker color, while others fear it may give a strong flavor.
Some who had little or no obvious eruption underwent a scaling or peeling of the cuticle.
And, meantime, the silver-gilt blades of the dessert-knives were delicately peeling choice fruit.
It was a long apartment, painted a light oak colour, an oily yellow, which was alreadypeeling away in places and soiled with stains in others.
The Kite, so the report ran, was diabolically ingenious with a long peeling knife, and could improvise with it for hours.
Girdling and peeling bark from standing trees on state land is prohibited.
Funny; he's been diving forty feet into an eight foot tank for several years, and never got a scratch, and then he slips on a banana peeling and breaks his arm.
Phil ambled off to the cookhouse with the intention of offering his services in peeling potatoes to the cookee in order that he might have an excuse for keeping near the fellow.
Bake in a steady oven until soft; wipe, and send to table without peeling them.
Slice fine ripe tomatoes without peeling them, and cook, held between the wires of an oyster-broiler, until hissing hot and slightly browned.
Throw off the water and set back, uncovered, upon the range to dry off, strewing with salt at the same time, Send to table in a dish lined with a napkin, peeling as you eat them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peeling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bark; cork; cortex; peel; rind; skin
