She should have gone into the Women's Exchange," suggested her cousin, "and employed some one who was out of orders for chicken pies or dolls!
There is a larder window at the side of the clergyman's house, and I saw things to eat inside - custard pudding and cold chicken and tongue - and pies - and jam.
A lot of ragged children were industriously making dust-pies in the road, two men lay on the grass smoking, and three women were doing the family washing in an old red watering-can with the top broken off.
It seemed the poor thing had accumulated several hundred dollars by washing, baking pies for the soldiers, and sewing the clothes for them that had been refitted by the tailor.
Merry, with two pies for grannie, and the horse and gig to take Nannie home.
Then when Christmas come we had cakes and pies stacked up setting about for us to cut.
We used to have plenty to eat, piesand cakes and custards.
There were other things on the table too, pickles and pies and cakes, but to these the boys paid slight attention.
For if he had to pay a whole apple pie for a tune he'd rather go another way, even if he couldn't hear the lovely music, for you can't grind out apple pies the way you can tunes.
On Saturday, just two days ago, she had been peeling apples to make pies for the Carson family.
By that time her pies were baked to a deep, golden brown, with little glazed blisters across their top crusts.
When her three big apple pies were in the oven, she washed the bread bowl in which she had mixed her pie crust; washed and dried vigorously the big yellow pine board and rolling pin, and restored them to their proper places.
Were there not spareribs and turkeys and cranberries and mince pies on the pantry shelves, and barrels of rosy Baldwins in the cellar and bottles of mother's root beer just waiting to give a holiday pop?
Don't break up the furniture," his sister advised him, as she took a peep at the piesin the oven.
They put pies and poetry, and even Purt Sweet, aside, to discuss Laura's idea.
Besides," laughed his sister, "the pies are almost done, and both you and Lance will want to sample them.
We passed the eating-house where the red lights made her face as rosy as it ought to have been; there was meat and pies in the window, and the poor thing stopped to look.
And how she found the goodly row of piessitting on the pantry shelf?
But when he saw the wonderful pies all around him, he sighed and shook his head, looking ruefully at his own simple offering.
Why may he not live where he will and yet cook the pies for us?
Hastily I put the five remaining pies in my basket and made for the window.
For the sake of the pies you stole (one of which was your own), during the siege of Kisington you shall spare from force or damage that part of the city in which stands my mother's little house.
I know that my mother would be glad to make such pies for you, even as Rafe and his Margot did for the King of old.
Suppose the man who stole those pies was starving and needed them for his comfort?
Carried on the shoulders of sturdy boys, drawn on floats by teams of ponies, wreathed in flowers and stuck over with banners and mottoes, the pies passed along before the hungry King.
And still more I regret the other five pies which I know you meant for me.
She made six of these wonderful pies for me, because she knows that I like them so much.
We shall then have pies like that first delicious one, made of fresh apples from that very same red-apple tree of his.
For there is something magic about the pies that a mother makes in her own kitchen which no factory can imitate.
I call it something else,--to steal the pies of a poor widow and deprive her son of his desserts.
The great thing to be desired in these cold pies is plenty of savory jelly in between the meat, and very light crust.
Somewhere in France these Salvation Army "lassies" are baking pies and "doughnuts for the doughboys.
Illustration: Somewhere in France these Salvation Army "lassies" are baking pies and "doughnuts for the doughboys.
Stewed eels and baked meat pies were discoverable through the steam of other windows, but the fried fish and potatoes appealed irresistibly to the palate through the nostrils, and stood first in popularity.
Mrs. Grail had supper ready, with some mince pies of her own making.
So, when she cleared away the supper-table that evening, before Oscar came home, she hid away the cake and pies with which the others had been served, and left only bread and butter in the closet.
The house was filled with savory odors from the oven, and long rows of pies began to fill up every vacant space in the closet.
These were the guests who consumed great quantities of Ellen's piesand puddings, and who sat under her festal garlands of holly and laurel.
Mince meat for pies can be preserved for years if canned the same as fruit while hot, and put into glass jars and sealed perfectly tight, and set in a cool, dark place.
In lifting pies or cakes from bright tin pans, use great caution that the knife does not scrape off flecks of bright metal.
I inquired of him "why it was that their custard pies had that look of solidity and smoothness that our home-made pies have not.
Creams for puddings, pies and fritters may be made in the same manner with any other flavoring; if flour is used in making them, it should boil in the milk three or four minutes.
Then put the skins and pulp together and they are ready for pies or for canning or putting in jugs for other use.
Take the remains or odd pieces of any light puff paste left from pies or tarts; gather up the pieces of paste, roll it out evenly, and sprinkle it with grated cheese of a nice flavor.
Rhubarb pies made in this way are altogether superior to those made of the fruit stewed.
Repeat this three times if for pies and six times if for vol-au-vents, patties, tarts, etc.
These are much more easily handled than pieces of pie or even pies whole, and can be packed nicely for carrying.
Raisins, and all dried fruits for pies and cakes, should be seeded stoned and dredged with flour before using.
Huckleberry and blackberry pies are improved by putting into them a little ginger and cinnamon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
