Why for the pratie crops to fail still; sure it's only the beginning o' May now, and who knows but we might have the happiness to see a right good general failure of the praties still?
We lived on praties next day, but the poor Sergeant had to foot the bill.
So once when he and a lot of diggers went in for the praties and buttermilk, the praties were not ready, and he gives the fellow who was responsible a bit of a kick behind with the side of his foot, like.
Luckily we don't often die hereabouts, or we'd never get the praties set or the turf cut.
The milk wouldn't do at all, at all, but she must have her pratiesand her bit bread wid the rest.
Hard enough," she avowed it was, "to get the praties for the mouths of her own chilther; and the little girl was growing large now.
Bait it wid a flitch of bacon on the one side, and a collop o' fresh meat on the other, now before the praties comes in, and you're sure of him.
T wasn't so long ago that you could sow praties in her face.
He had a roast goose, stuffed by thim two hands withpraties and inguns, until the tears ran down my face; and he had a pig's cheek, and lashins of cabbage.
Not of biledpraties only, but roast and biled meat.
And upon my conscience, as far as a good weighty butt o' praties goes, I'll punish him this very night.
Come, my hearties, the mate and the praties is crying, 'Who'll ate me?
Your honour won't know me, bedad, in a wake's toime if I ownly git enough praties an' mate!
Bedad, it's praties an' crame we hev fur tay, sure, ivvery day in the wake!
Ain't there pigs and praties enough for ye in poor Bantry town that her crabbedest childer must lave her.
Oh wisha wisha the poor ould home an' the green praties that day we come from it--with our luck smilin' us in the face.
Tim's only qualification for the post was that he professed to be able to boil praties with any man in the service.
Arrah, now, if there were but some praties to cook with it, we should be having as fine an Irish stew as we could wish to set eyes on.
Shure, they used to call me `little bellows' at home, and set me to make the turf blaze up when the praties were put on to boil.
Don't ye observe that he and mither will feel so bad whin they find how they have aboosed me that they'll give me two praties instid of one and then I'll have the laugh on them.
Both of ye sarch yer clothes and saa whither ye haven't a few loaves of bread, some biled praties and a pound or two of maat hidden in the same.
It is but yestherday that we were hoeing praties in the field.
Here praties grow bigger nor turnips; And though cruel hard is our work, In ould Ireland we'd nothing but praties, But here we have praties and pork.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
