The engine on its lic’rice rails Cream puffed along so fast The pep’mint poles and chocolate cows Went simply whizzing past!
The good-natured cook seemed surprised at our bad taste, but yielded to European prejudices, and at last brought some plain rice and tomatoes, with which we made an excellent luncheon.
The kabobs and maccaroni had too much garlic in them for our taste, but a very light sort of pastry called "paklava" was excellent, and the rice was perfection.
He lived chiefly on rice, like the rest of his countrymen, but required to have his rice cooked nicely, and his meat cut properly.
The rich rice milk, sweet and perfumed, restores his strength.
Spring-Rice (afterwards Lord Monteagle) was punished in a similar fashion for two years, because he had said something deprecatory of journalism.
Industry, other than rice processing, is almost nonexistent.
Rice is the staple crop; substantial amounts of maize, sorghum, cassava, and sweet potatoes are also grown.
Once the world's largest rice importer, Indonesia is now nearly self-sufficient.
In 1985 teak replaced rice as the largest export and continues to hold this position.
A Swastika symbol is made before it with the rice flour and sugar brought as an offering to the tree.
Handful of rice or meal, in circular form, thinner in center.
Presently some good-humoured gaping rustic comes up, who wishes to learn his destiny, upon which the soothsayer suffers the canary to hop out of his cage upon one of the squares, and pick up a grain of rice ad libitum.
The Manila tobacco is a very strong narcotic; there is, notwithstanding the prevailing opinion in Europe, no opium mingled with it; one end being simply dipped in rice juice to glue it together.
We now found ourselves strolling through fields planted with rice and cotton, through cabbage and vegetable gardens, occasionally even over graves, which rose in mounds here and there along our path.
Meat of all sorts was at a discount, and was served up in small morsels ready carved;[157] on the other hand, rice and vegetables were presented in every imaginable form.
Above the limit of vegetation of the foliage trees, are seen on the slopes of the mountain groups of pines, while the level ground at the bottom of the valley is laid out in smiling rice fields.
The liquids consisted of sherry, liqueurs, Chinese wine or Samschoo (made from rice and imbibed from cups in lieu of glasses), and green and almond tea.
We then proceeded through a beautiful valley, covered with rice fields, and traversed in its entire extent by a mountain torrent, which is dammed off, and drives a number of Chinese mills with the small water-courses.
Soon he must go South for hisrice feast, for early in summer the birds of his clan descend upon the rice fields and lo----!
Manioc ripens between the sixth and ninth month, plantains and bananas once a year, cotton and rice in four months, and maize in forty days--with irrigation it is easy to grow three annual crops.
The Sugar Act was a greater grievance to the New England distiller of rum and the exporters of fish and lumber than it was to the rice and tobacco planters of the South.
Yet South Carolina, disappointing to the proprietors, was destined in the next century, when rice became its staple product, to serve in an almost ideal way the purpose for which it had been founded.
They see the mail-steamers landing ton after ton of Chinese rice shipped viâ England.
Mr. Potter, of the stores, still lives to eat rice and palm-oil in retirement; but with the energetic Macgill departed the trade and prosperity of the place.
This is the work of the uninteresting little villages, scatters of mere crates built in holes worn in the bush; all disappear during the floods, and are rebuilt in the dry season for growing rice and tapping palm-trees.
At night he left his rice incautiously on the bench of the hut where he was sleeping; and next morning the Saübas had riddled the handkerchief like a sieve, and carried away a gallon of the grain for their own felonious purposes.
McCook, on the other hand, is of opinion that the rice sows itself, and that the insects' part is limited to preventing any other plants or weeds from encroaching on the appropriated area.
As the sunset-gun boomed from the citadel, lids had been snatched off millions of cooking-pots throughout the land, and fingers had been thrust into the meat and rice of the evening feast, and their owner had gulped down a bowl of water.
On a cart laden with bread and rice two fellaheen stood and handed, or tossed out, food to the crowd--token of a death in high places.
So Busuk forgot her grief, and she watched with ill-concealed eagerness the coming of Mamat's friends with presents of tobacco and rice and bone-tipped krises.
All the guests, and there were many, brought offerings of cooked rice in the fresh green leaves of the plantain, and baskets of delicious mangosteens, and pink mangoes and great jack-fruits.
Look up in those trees and you will see monkeys that know boiledrice from padi.
It was tiffin time, and they were anxious to set before us our lunch of rice curry, gula Malacca, whiskey and soda.
A curry was made from the rice that had forty sambuls to mix with it.
In a short time we could see them building a number of small fires along the beach, and the aroma of rice curry came up to us with the breeze.
They cannot live in a mud hut, go barefooted, wear a loin cloth and subsist on a few cents' worth of rice a day.
In like manner new facilities for export have doubled, trebled and, in some places, quadrupled the price of rice in China, Siam and Japan.
Rice whiskey in tiny cups is usually served at feasts, though it was often omitted from the feasts given to us.
Travellers are expected to provide their own food and bedding and to pay a small extra sum for the rice and fodder used by their servants and mules, but even then the cost appears ridiculously small to a foreigner.
The grain of the two varieties is the staple food, few but the richer classes eating rice which is not raised in the north and is high in price.
The staple diet is rice and dried fish, with vegetables and fruits: cakes and pastry are rare luxuries, and purchased at the market or from itinerant vendors.
Rice culture is the natural pursuit of the Javanese or Sundanese native.
Seeing the white oblong-masses in the region of Bob's mouth, she very naturally concluded that they were grains of rice left by the careless quadruped.
Inundation is necessary until the rice is nearly ripe, which is naturally about August or September.
In the foreground are irrigated rice terraces, with gleaming waters and the freshest of verdure.
On the latter only the less important crops, such as mountain rice or Indian corn, are grown.
By this method he thought that he would be able both to raise the revenue and to improve the condition of the peasants by teaching them to grow valuable produce in addition to the rice crops on which they depended for subsistence.
The rice (which is to them what bread is to us) is not boiled, but steamed.
Their impatience now became ungovernable; and hearing that the rice and sugar were being served out, they retreated precipitately down the hill, where they all set to most heartily, with their wives and children, to devour the food.
After three or four had shewn off in this way, they determined they must have something to eat, saying that I had promised them rice and sugar, and they ought to have it.
She would have sailed that evening; fortunately, however, I had ordered our people to feast her commander and crew with rice and the irresistible dates.
Tis a wonderful fact that your hips swell Like boiled rice or a skin blown out," sings a satirical Yemeni: the Somal retort by comparing the lank haunches of their neighbours to those of tadpoles or young frogs.
Ibrahim then brought water and a bag of dates, and shortly afterwards some rice and milk.
Wheat and rice are imported: the price varies from forty to sixty pounds the Riyal or dollar.
Half the rice had been changed at Las Kuray for an inferior description.
At midday rice was boiled for us by the indefatigable women, and at 3 P.
Her style of eating was peculiar; she licked up the rice from the hollow of her hand.
The patient, if a man of note, is placed upon the sand, and fed with rice or millet bread till he recovers or dies.
Lieutenant Speke is of opinion that his cloth and rice would easily have stopped the war for a time: the Dulbahantas threatened and blustered, but allowed themselves easily to be pacified.
Two crops of rice are gathered, one being irrigated, and the other allowed to grow by itself.
That four fragatas be fitted up and used for nothing else than to transport rice and food, putting each fragata under command of a thoroughly trustworthy master.
Where the natives had not the kinds of goods mentioned in the question, they paid for them in rice and gold, which is very advantageous to the Chinese.
As it was the rainy season, and the troops were dying, I commanded them to withdraw, leaving garrisons at convenient points, and well provisioned, in order that they might overrun the country and destroy their rice and grain.
From this issue one gains an impression that Fort Rice must have been a dreary post.
I have got ten hogsheads of sugar, twenty-four crates of hardware, some barrels of molasses, and forty casks of spirits on board, eighty kegs of nails and a ton or two of rice and flour.
Those from Tanaserim are chiefly freighted with rice and Nipar wine, which is very strong, and as colourless as rock water, with a somewhat whitish tinge, and very hot in taste, like aqua vitae.
The gentry among them are reduced to poverty by the number of their slaves, who eat faster than their pepper and rice grow.
She had likewise much rice and other goods, of which we made small account: And as a storm now began to blow, all their men were put on board, and we left her riding at anchor.
Shortly after this, an Indian, who belonged to a Portuguese captain, who came to the port with a ship-load of rice from Bengal, came to our house to sell hens.
They are great eaters; but the gentry allow nothing to their slaves except rice sodden in water, with some roots and herbs.
For rice we paid three-pence a pound, and the same price for dates.
It has plenty of rice and other provisions; and as it has some junks which trade with Banda, nutmegs and mace are likewise to be procured there, but in no great quantity.
On land, great numbers of grey parrots, and abundance of pintados or Guinea fowls, which are very hurtful to their rice crops.
In the end, the emperor gave to every one to live upon two pounds of rice daily, and so much yearly as was worth eleven or twelve ducats, the captain, myself, and the mariners all equal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grass; oats; wheat
