The Poles would put salt upon the peelings and devour them with avidity.
Then, at about this time, a notice was posted on the wall in the little triangular yard notifying all whom it might concern that henceforth potato peelings must be deposited in a receptacle placed at the end of the corridor.
Many times I saw one of their number delve into a garbage can and extract therefrom potato peelings that had been cast there.
She and her children used to live on potato-peelings and crusts of dry bread picked out from the barrels; and in America she lives to eat chicken, and apple shtrudels soaking in fat.
You leave your water in the bowl, You put your peelings in the coal!
The potato-peelings (most poor families skin their potatoes after they are boiled) were quite a dainty to us: the heads and bones of fish and such-like refuse were also welcome to our empty stomachs.
Soon after, I discovered some plantainpeelings and the remains of a fire.
Scotty's eye to thrift ever open, he entered into an engagement with one of the drivers that he would feed his mules potato peelings if he would split fifty-fifty with him on the prize.
In order to prevent spilling the peelings at the entrance to the cookhouse, he backed the mule up against the door.
When the mule stuck his nose into the hot peelings he jerked backwards into the door of the cookhouse, the driver's back struck the wall over the entrance and he was shot clean off the mule's back head-foremost into the cesspool 10 feet away.
The peelings will supply as many fowls as there are persons at the dinner table.
A good morning meal of soft food for a few fowls may be provided daily almost for nothing by boiling the potato peelings till soft, and mashing them up with enough bran, slightly scalded, to make a tolerably stiff dry paste.
He just grabbed up the pan of apple peelings--long, curlingpeelings they were--and he threw them at the wolf!
If he does, I'll throw more apple peelings at him, and trip him up so that he bumps his nose again.
Peel the oranges, scoop out the white portion from the peelings, cut the peelings into thin strips, and add to the crab-apple pulp.
The way I deposited apple peelings to my credit in a drawer when any customers came in made Hetty Green look like a spendthrift.
Let 'em see you stuff the peelings in a drawer of your desk.
With the sharp edge of the dagger he chopped at the peelings until he had a coarse powder.
Carefully he shaved peelings from the cake to the polished black marble.
Think of the labour; think of the time; think of all the peelings and scrapings and washings and messings attending these nine hundred boilings of the pot!
Goats will pickpeelings out of the kennel and eat them.
Stand the kettle over rather a quick fire and let the peelings boil with the kettle covered until very soft.
Put the peelingsin the preserving kettle with enough water to keep from sticking.
Use the peelings of your peaches when you are through canning and preserving.
Mother had told Adelaide to save the peelings and cores of the quinces, and put in a saucepan with just enough water to cover.
The quince juice was made from the peelings and cores of the quinces she had canned the day before, by just covering them with cold water and boiling slowly for one hour.
As for Mary, the freckles had met long ago on her turkey-egg countenance, while Dum had long streamers ofpeelings hanging from her nose.
She is very grieved, however, over the new freckles on my nose and tried to make me bind cucumber peelings on that much-abused and perfectly inoffensive member.
Now freckles look healthy but these great peelings streaming from my nose make me look as though I were just recovering from scarlet fever.
I don't believe one single freckle was removed by our torture; but our skin felt soft and satiny, and Dum's peelings all came off with her mask.
Add the peelings of twelve oranges and twelve lemons, previously soaked in water, cut in strips and boiled extremely soft, the water being changed three times while boiling.
In a short time Gorilla returned furious and disappointed, and sat down to finish the breakfast he had only begun, but on putting out his hands he found only the withered peelings of yesterday's bananas.
He descended the tree, lifted the body and let it fall, then took up the basket, looked inside and outside of it, raked over the peelings of the bananas, but could not find anything left to eat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peelings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
