Hastily setting down the pan of potatoes she was peeling, a pleasant-looking stout woman rose to her feet with a curtsy.
Spring was far advanced now, potatoes were being planted and other early vegetables already showing in green rows.
But I ain't gonna shave," he told himself, as he disposed of fried steak and potatoes sloshed down by several cups of coffee.
They were bright and hard, and they flickered stormily upon him when she lifted her gaze from the pan of frying potatoes and saw who it was standing in the doorway.
This was the signal for a general discharge, Max and Scoodrach hurling potatoes with all their might at the attacking party, and with more or less good aim.
The men murmured, and held back, as the ammunition kept flying, and they had to dodge the missiles, some of the younger men catching the potatoes and throwing them back.
The same fire built to burn the white man (Babs) is being utilised to roast potatoes for supper; only this is a mere detail.
And the play ends by the spirit of the wild woods bringing the maiden back (Babs again) to the camp fire in the forest, and--and by a supper of bakedpotatoes with salt.
I should have thought myself the happiest man in the world if I could have returned to my little hut and forty acres, which my father left me in Braintree, and lived on potatoes and sea-weed the rest of my life.
He rose betimes in the mornings and kindled fires in the kitchen and breakfast room, and by the time I came down the tea-kettle boiled and potatoes were baked and rice cooked, and my lord sat with a book superintending.
There was work to do picking rocks for the neighboring farmers; and then came potato-planting time when they could help Ben as he worked for Deacon Brown, who always paid them well in potatoes that kept them through the winter.
Joel, smacking his lips; "we don't have anything but potatoes and salt for our dinner.
We had a first course of the beef, heated in gravy, withpotatoes and pickled pears.
Instead, drop out the potatoes and have a dish of spiced fruit with the meat instead of a second vegetable.
If she will not learn, at least you can have her boil the potatoes whole first and scrape off the peel afterwards; that will save them in spite of her.
Just before luncheon the soup was taken up and put in hot cups, and the strips of veal, the potatoes and peas in the crusts were arranged on hot plates.
But why have potatoes and barley at the same meal?
Potatoes are one of the extravagances of the housekeeper, strange as it may seem at first sight.
For vegetables, a half-can of corn was already scalloped with crumbs, to be browned in the oven, and for potatoes a dishful of plain boiled ones was at hand, to be heated up in a white sauce.
If you were to have had some little hot thing which you cannot add to, fry some potatoes to go with it, and add 'sippets of toast.
By the way, sometimes cut or chop these potatoes quite fine, and after creaming them put crumbs on top and bake them; that is a good change.
And of course potatoes and apples and squashes we could put down cellar and they would be all right there.
All around it were alternating piles of browned potatoes and green peas, with sprigs of parsley here and there, so that it was appetizing to look at and delicious to eat.
But do not have potatoes all the time; boiled rice is cheaper when you are cutting down expenses.
In the kitchen a cryptic, gray woman kissed her glacially on the forehead, and pointed out the potatoes which were not yet peeled for breakfast.
Stealing potatoes is clearly against the articles of war.
Archy had never practised carrying bags of potatoes on his back, and was considerably out of breath when they reached the shelter that stood for a house for Mrs. Curtis.
Admiral Digby gave me permission to bring this bag of potatoes to your house.
Cold potatoes on my own table taste better than roast meat at my neighbor's, and the honeysuckle at my own door is the sweetest I ever smell.
He brought the potatoes from the fire and deftly turned them into the dish that Augusta had waiting.
Augusta was hanging a pot of potatoes over the fire from a long crooked iron hook that was sunk into the ground.
Captain Josiah Crawford's black schooner sailing down the channel, laden with potatoes for Bluenose ports, was a spectral ship bound for a far uncharted land, ever receding, never to be reached.
But that family always thought they were much bigger potatoesthan they really were.
I had a fine sleep the rest of the night but my dinner had to be sorter scanty--potatoes and point, as you might say.
If potatoes are served with either of these dishes they should be potatoes gaufrettes—on a separate plate.
Here is the how: Grind up raw sweet potatoes in a meat chopper until you have one quart.
You can tell when the dish is done by testing the potatoes or the fish with a fork.
Then put in a few potatoes and turnips (cut up in small pieces), and boil until done.
Place the thin sliced potatoes in the bottom of a baking dish, slice the onion over this and add the remainder of the potatoes; pour hot water over all with butter and salt.
If you have beans and potatoes do not put them in with the meat because they will go to the bottom and scorch.
The fish were small and bony, and the potatoes were a little burnt.
Mealy Potatoes uprose once, and rebelled against my being so distinguished; but Mick Walker settled him in no time.
When she came by again, a little before twelve, for her hasty dinner, they turned up the fire under the potatoesand stirred the flour thickening for the gravy.
So it was in the face of disapproval that Fanny, making deep inroads into the steak and fried sweet potatoes at supper on the eve of the Day of Atonement, announced her intention of fasting from that meal to supper on the following evening.
The settlers, however, employ what leisure time remains after their work is done, in cultivating a number of plots of ground with cereals and vegetables, potatoes especially returning from time to time an excellent yield.
Add enough cracker meal to absorb the liquid from the potatoes so that the mixture can be dropped by the spoonful into hot fat or oil.
He did talk: sometimes so compellingly that I would stand stock-still rapt in reverential ecstasy: once to the point of letting the potatoes I was handing round roll off the dish on to the floor.
I never was so rapt again; for Cherubino picking up the potatoes and following my frightened exit, broke them over my head on the landing, by way of chastisement.
The best barbers do not use hot mealy potatoes for the hair.
Simoneau was wiry, talking the slang of the New York waterfront, swearing that he would "hike for Attleboro, and hoe potatoes until he died.
The great leaves of the ape are like our elephant's ear plant, and the roots, as big as war-clubs, are tubers that take the place of potatoes here.
I give you my word that the girl eats potatoes oftener than anything else.
Then Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, dropping the pan ofpotatoes she was peeling for supper, sprang at the ferret.
I lived on potatoes on Friday, and on spinage to-day; but I have had, I am afraid, too many dinners of late.
They are commonly too hard for me, and, therefore, I take potatoes to my meat, and am sure to find them on almost every table.
Potatoes have been known to be raised in pure beds of small limestone pebbles, where the seed potatoes had been merely covered in a slight way, to shield them from the sun, until they had taken root.
Of course I could plant whole potatoes, one in each hill, but that would be wasting seed, so I cut the potatoes up into chunks and plant the little chunks, each one with two or more seeds in it.
First you pull up the vine," said Daddy Blake, and he tore one from the earth, many of the potatoes clinging to it.
In fact some of my early potatoes need looking after now.
And Uncle Pennywait kept careful count of every quart and bushel of the potatoes that were eaten, or put away for Winter.
No, but the potatoes have grown as large as they ever will be, and, there being no more need of the vine, it is drying up.
I am going to win the ten dollar prize by raising a bigger crop of potatoes than you can raise of corn or beans, little ones," and he smiled at Hal and Mab.
For they had been down under the dark earth ever since the eyes were planted in the Spring, growing from tiny potatoes Into large ones.
It has gone to seed, just as a dandelion goes to seed, in a way, though we call the potatoes 'tubers' instead of seed.
The machine has iron prongs which dig under the dirt like giant fingers, turning out the potatoes which are tossed between the rows of dirt so men, who follow, may pick them up.
The potatoes were really Uncle Pennywait's crop--at least he had planted most of them and called them his, for the tomatoes were Daddy Blake's.
When my potatoes grow up into nice green vines, and the striped bugs come to have a feast on them, you may help me drive the bad creatures away," said Uncle Pennywait to the children.
He had a basket in which were some large potatoes and these he was cutting into chunks, letting them fall into another basket.
And in digging potatoes you must be careful not to stick your fork, spade or whatever you use, into the potato tubers, and so cutting them.
Well, Mr. Porter is working among his potatoes so I guess Sammie can't do much harm," Mab said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potatoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
