The ham of that day was a different thing from the flabby, flavorless so-called "sugar cured" counterfeit of the present day, and thousands of other well meaning citizens besides General Jackson were fond of the ham of the olden time.
Louisiana, the, an American war vessel, blows Sir Edward's sugar barrels to pieces, 192.
On the other hand, the Louisiana and a water battery did fine work with their raking fire, and soon blew the sugar barrels into thousands of pieces.
The hope of the ever-alert commander in chief was fulfilled, for the young clergyman soon found himself a prisoner in the famous Sugar House, in New York.
I remember eating a lot of brown sugar and candy at his store.
But he fill up de glass jus' de same an' put in er extra spoon of sugar an' give it to me.
I wurked on de farm durin' slavery times, among de cotton, corn, an' sugar cane.
Dey gives me a half peck of meal and a pound o' meat, a little oat meal, and canned grape juice, a half pound o' coffee and no sugar or lard and no flour.
About this time, the "NOBLE BARON," began to loom on horizon with his Sugar Bounties Convention.
Government stood gallantly by "NOBLE BARON;" in the end, amid the jeers of Opposition, Sugar Bounties Bill withdrawn to avoid Ministerial defeat.
Beneath the hot skies of the South--where flourished the much sought for crops of cotton, rice and sugar cane--was the land to which with unerring instinct the Trader piloted his craft freighted with ignorance and woe.
The prince was twenty-three years old; he noticed the elk and also the splendid coffin between its antlers, whereupon he took a pound of sugar from his bag and gave it to the elk to eat.
If salt or sugar be employed in these cases, people are tempted to regard them as excellent specifics.
The finest plantations of sugar are in the valleys of Aragua and of the Tuy, near Pao de Zarate, between La Victoria and San Sebastian, near Guatire, Guarenas, and Caurimare.
The cane is now found only in the island of Palma, near Argual and Tazacorte,* where it yields scarcely one thousand quintals of sugar a year.
But the consumption of the provinces of Venezuela, in papelon, and in raw sugaremployed in making chocolate and sweetmeats (dulces) is so enormous, that the exportation has been hitherto entirely null.
As we were absolutely destitute of large vessels for holding and mixing liquids, we poured the water of the river, by means of a calabash, into one of the holes of the rock: to this we added sugar and lime-juice.
Henry used all his faculties, and, by making his pretty canes, he got money, not to buy sugar plums, but to pay for instruction.
You will say, "Why, aunt, letters are not only better than sugar plums, they are better than dollars.
Think, then, my dear Frank, how much better it is to be able to fill a letter with these curious strokes to send to a friend than to have bushels of sugar plums to send him.
As a consumer it made little difference to England whether she got her wheat from Russia or India, or her sugar from Germany or Mauritius, so long as the supply was plentiful, cheap and constant.
More sugar is actually produced in temperate than in tropical countries, though the export from tropical countries largely preponderates.
The mousse may be in white sugar cases, if you prefer these rather than the melon mould.
The cream may be in the form of cradles, as has been suggested, or a white cream may be served in spun sugar cases, or, if neither of these is to be had, a plain cream may be served in slices with whipped cream around each.
The ices may be of strawberry cream or of raspberry ice or a mixture of both, they are to be heart-shaped, as has been said, and each one should have a sugar arrow stuck through it.
Put white of eggs on top; sprinkle with sugar and brown in oven.
Put enough water over a cup of white sugar to dissolve it; grate into it two squares of chocolate, and boil until thick enough to spread.
Beat the eggs and sugar well; then add milk and flour.
One cup butter rubbed with two cups white sugar to a cream, one cup sweet milk, three and one-half cups flour, three level teaspoons baking powder, and whites of eight eggs.
Put a thick layer of brown sugar on bottom of jar; then a layer of bunches of grapes; sprinkle on a few whole cloves, allspice, and stick cinnamon.
One pound of sugar to each pint of juice; boil, and skim.
Moisten a tablespoonful of corn starch, and stir it into the water; when it boils, pour it over the sugar and butter, and stir in the rind and juice.
Whites of three eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, juice and grated rind of one orange, sugar to give the right consistency to spread between the layers; put white frosting on the top.
White of one egg (beaten stiff), one teaspoonful of baking powder to the white of an egg; thicken with powdered sugar to drop from the spoon; add one small cup of nuts.
Put the sugar and remainder of cold water in a large pitcher; squeeze the juice into the pitcher; add it to the gelatine after it is dissolved; strain into the can, and freeze.
The Sugar House, with its five or six low stories, was crammed with American patriots, and the passerby in warm weather could see its little grated windows filled with human faces, trying to catch a breath of the external air!
Sears had returned to the prisonship about the last of March, and in the month of May he and Van Arsdale, with other prisoners, were picked out and removed again to the Sugar House.
Van Arsdale had dragged out some two months of miserable existence in the Sugar House, and in all nine months and a half as a prisoner, when the day of happy deliverance arrived.
The privates had all been removed from the Sugar House, October 24th, and put on board a prisonship, anchored opposite Governor's Island.
Crackers and sugar might be all right, he may have thought, but he needed hay and oats for a real meal.
But first they tied Toby to a tree and gave him his piece of sugar and the crackers.
Bunny almost dropped the bag of sugar he was carrying.
But you might have a lump of sugaror a sweet cracker for him.
But I need some lumps of sugar to make Toby do it right.
Sue, as she put her arms around her pet, who came up to her, rubbing his velvety nose against her sleeve, as though asking for a lump of sugar or a bit of sweet cracker.
That was his way of asking for sugaror other things that he liked.
Whether Toby knew all that Mr. Tallman said to him, or whether the pony had learned to go for the measure because he knew there was a lump of sugar in it, I can't exactly say.
The lump of sugar had been put in the measure, and the measure was covered with a bushel basket, turned upside down.
He had given him a careful sponge bath, then fed him another intravenous dosage of the combined liquid protein, salt, sugarand glucose.
Many a really bad animal goes through its share of the performance solely to secure the bit of meat, the lump of sugar or the prized biscuit that never fails to show up at the proper moment.
Next, he poured tea into a cup, put in sugarand cream, took tea from the spoon, then drank from the cup.
The sugar and the wheat, the cotton, coffee and all the other requirements of the home population of these islands had still unceasingly to be provided.
Sugar was the first article for which Government took responsibility, first and early.
But the butler came in with the coffee on a large silver tray, and the under-butler followed with the cream and sugar on another large silver tray.
Louie sucked at her sugar a little longer, with her hands round her knees.
He watched his wife in gaping astonishment as he saw her approaching Sandy, with blandishments which, rough and clumsy as they were, had nevertheless the effect of beguiling that young man on to the lap where barley-sugar was to be had.
Louie sat for a while, sucking at a lump of sugar she had swept that morning into the omnium gatherum of her pocket.
The sugar biscuits are all spoilt, for I forgot them in the oven; and my daughter Berta fainted on the top of the stove, and is so seriously singed, she will be unable to appear at the party.
Upon sugar alone duties were surrendered to an amount far exceeding all the advantages offered in exchange.
The Government has recovered from the American Sugar Refining Company all that it is shown to have been defrauded of.
The area over which the sugar beet can be successfully cultivated is very large, and another field crop of great value is offered to the choice of the farmer.
I do not anticipate that free trade between the islands and the United States will produce a revolution in the sugar and tobacco production of the Philippine Islands.
The state of the revenues was such that we could dispense with any import duties upon coffee, tea, hides, and the lower grades of sugar and molasses.
Nation-wide experiments have been conducted to ascertain the suitableness as to soil and climate and States for growing sugar beets.
The number of sugar factories has been doubled in the past two years, and the ability of the United States to produce its own sugar from this source has been clearly demonstrated.
The agreement is an important element in our international commodity policy with far-reaching implications for our relations with developing countries, particularly sugar producers in Latin America.
International Sugar Agreement, thus fulfilling a major commitment of this Administration.
He stuffed some sugar between the wet lips as he came, and his hand caressed the streaming neck.
His pockets were stuffed with sugar which both she and Bunny helped to distribute, and not till dusk came upon them did they realize the lateness of the hour.
The sugar is obtained from the Indians, and is made from the maple tree.
Nauvoo, is the lower end of Dobson's slough, which receives a stream charted by Nicollet and Owen as Sugar cr.
But on the borders of the lake is some oak, with large groves of sugar-maple, from which the traders make sufficient sugarfor their consumption the whole year.
This sarkhara is the same word as sugar; it was called in Latin saccharum, and we still speak of saccharine juice, which is sugar juice.
Yet sugar came from India, and it is there called sarkhara, which is anything but sweet sounding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sugar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
