After the scant fare of the abandoned “yard” how good the luscious, succulent fare tasted to them.
Besides, just a short stroll away lay the marsh pools, threaded thick with succulent lily roots, considered, by the hedgehog tribe, the very daintiest eating to be had.
In advance rode the guide, singing a song in praise of mutton, and descriptive of his partiality for thatsucculent meat.
Various kinds of nuts, and another glass of nalivka, precede the principal dish, which is an appetizing pilaoff, made of large quantities of rice and succulent pieces of mutton, roasted together.
Unfortunately, the tree to which the craft had been tied was one whose wood was of a soft and succulent nature,--a species of melastoma.
Their enemy, seated in his canoe, awaits their approach in silence; and then, after they have become forgetful of all save their enjoyment of the succulent grass, he paddles up to them.
These green succulent masses would be more likely to subdue the flame than contribute to its brilliancy.
There were not over a dozen plants in all, but two or three of them were large specimens, sending up their soft succulent limbs nearly as high as the live-oaks.
I thought the hens would taste salty, but found instead some of the tenderest and most succulent chicken you could hope for.
When she can prepare a succulent roast suckling pig she will be able to sing Ocean, thou mighty monster!
Still I may offer a few olives, a branch or two of succulent celery to those who have not as yet been invited to sit down.
Pogliani turning from the spaghetti theme chromatically to that of the risotto, the most succulent and appetizing risotto to be tasted this side of Bonvecchiati's in Venice .
Zachary rejoiced when Speckly or any of the younger or livelier kine approached to push him away from a succulent patch of herbage.
There would be many hundreds of the unhandy supercilious beasts there at one time, enjoying their longed-for rest, and making hearty meals on the more succulent growths of the dwarf forest.
On the plains the giraffe had often been driven to the mimosa wood, or even farther afield, in search of succulent branches and tree tops; here the meals were waiting to be eaten at every hour of the day.
This acquaintance was made one afternoon in early August when the grouse family were feeding on some succulent grasses by the side of the burn where the stag came to drink.
The cuttings may be made of either fully ripened wood of the preceding or the current season, or they may be of firm, not succulent green stems.
It did not escape me that my husband looked relieved at this news, and that Alma's face brightened as she said in her most succulent tones: "I should go if I were you, Mary.
Her movements were almost noiseless, and as she sank into the chair by my side there was a certain over-sweetness in the soft succulent tones of the voice with which she began to tell me what had happened to her since I had seen her last.
In a few moments a succulent streak of clover so engrossed him that he turned his back fairly upon me--and like a flash I was off, speeding noiselessly over the grass.
The yard is always surrounded by young trees, upon whose succulent shoots the moose feed.
The speaker did not think it necessary to explain that the undue time it had taken to roast the succulent young goat which Ncapele had caused to be slaughtered for his refection had had anything to do with the lateness of his arrival.
They moved forward at a moderate pace, having browsed so fully on the succulent grass that it was easy to keep them going, until nearly the middle of the day.
A mere globe of succulent and delicious pulp, which I would rather be deprived of than cultivate bad feelings, even toward thieves.
His head, which was covered with a transparent down, like that which clothes very small chickens, plainly permitting the scalp to show through, to an imaginative mind might have suggested that succulent vegetable.
At times his great head was wholly submerged as his long, flexible upper lip sought out the succulent roots and buds; again it was raised, while from the gently moving jaws the water dripped with a musical plash into the pond.
Lily-pads floating lightly upon the surface of the pond gave promise of white succulent roots which penetrated the ooze beneath.
The muskrat now bestirred himself and began a leisurely journey downstream, stopping when an unusually succulent root showed itself above the oozy bed.
Just outside the subterranean entrance to his abode grew plenty of sweet-flag and succulent lily stems and roots, his for the taking.
Kagh reveled in succulentlily stems and buds, and as he feasted he uttered little grunts of satisfaction.
While the corn is yet green they pull the ears down like hogs, and, tearing open the sheathing of husks, eat the tender, succulent kernels, bruising and destroying much more than they devour.
The airport is full of enlightened visitors who are taking cartons of these succulent fruits home with them.
The summit of the peak is not more arid than the promontory of basaltic lava, which stretches towards the point of Naga, and on which succulent plants, springing up in the clefts of the rocks, scarcely indicate a preparation of soil.
These succulent plants are from eight to ten feet high, and in Europe one of their groups would be considered as a little wood.
The last named is a native of Mexico; it is a climbing plant withsucculent stems and vine-like leaves, and grows with great rapidity.
The former is a strong succulent grass, rooting at the joints; the latter grows in tufts, rising to a height of four to five feet.
The dogs had been sent home; so all the work had to be done by ourselves; and from the small size of our prey and the thickness of the covert, it was almost as easy to catch as to shoot the succulent morsels.
