Wit she hath, without desire To make known how much she hath; And her anger flames no higher Than may fitly sweeten wrath.
He cherished, void of selfish ends, The social courtesies that bless And sweeten life, and loved his friends With most unworldly tenderness.
To economize our stock of coffee we were forced to make it wretchedly weak, and, for want of sugar or treacle, to sweeten it with honey, of which we had about twenty pounds.
We had now some fresh meat, but our stock of sugar was at an end, and we had to sweeten our coffee with treacle.
Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
It is a culture that tends to brighten human intercourse and to sweeten a man's own thoughts.
Nowhere does the nature of his race or the peculiar genius of his language show out better than in these terse, pithy sayings which the Malay uses to sweeten his speech or lend effectiveness to it.
The house of commons, in order to sweeten the unpalatable cup they had presented to the king, voted the sum of seven hundred thousand pounds per annum for the support of the civil list, distinct from all other services.
In order to sweeten this proposal, he declared that the land-tax for the ensuing year should be reduced to one shilling in the pound.
Labour could conquer all things, and customsweeten them in the conquest.
If any where a number assembled together, and, assuming courage from despair, were resolved to sweeten death by revenge on their assassins, they were disarmed by capitulations and promises of safety, confirmed by the most solemn oaths.
I value every custom that tends to infuse poetical feeling into the common people, and to sweeten and soften the rudeness of rustic manners, without destroying their simplicity.
Prayers, however, earnest, will not sweeten a common sewer.
Sweeten to your taste, dress with your garnish, and serve in a napkin.
I have just come from a sugarstore down-town, where I was astonished to learn that sugar is something besides what you sweeten your tea with.
These things did not, however, sweeten her temper, nor soften her resolutions.
But her dream had vanished, and under circumstances not calculated to sweeten her temper.
Wiser people may call it trifling, but it serves to sweetenlife to me, and is worst better than the generality of conversation.
There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it.
Surely your first duty, next to pleasing God, is to please your mother, and in every possible way to sweeten and beautify her life.
Well," said Lucien, "I think even at this late season we might contrive to extract sap enough from them to sweeten a cup of tea.
To sweeten the coffee some joints of sugar-cane had been crushed, and boiled in a rough manner; and for bread they had roasted plantains.
All the perfumes of Arabia will notsweeten this little hand.
With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave.
If it be so, We need no grave to bury honesty; There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth.
It wouldsweeten your slumbers--perhaps," she replied, soberly.
It would sweeten my slumbers, I am sure, and it wouldn't hurt you.
Doth his company sweeten all things; and his absence imbitter all things?
I am not such an old married man that I cannot appreciate a compliment like that, when my wife tells me with her own lips that my society can sweeten even poverty and hardship.
If you were ever sad and lonely, if life has not always been easy to you, it will sweeten your solitary hours to know that you have given enjoyment to a crippled sufferer.
There is a God who will sweeten thy ill feeling for Katherine--" "Shut thy mouth, fool!
He had lived, when in exile, upon a footing of equality with his banished nobles, and had partaken freely and promiscuously in the pleasures and frolics by which they had endeavoured to sweeten adversity.
Towards the end sweetenthem with Sugar, breaking the Apples into Pap by stirring them.
Then take above an Ounce of Nutmegs, and a quarter of an Ounce of Mace, some Cloves and Cinnamon, and put them together, and sweeten them with Rose-water and Sugar.
Sweeten it with Sugar to your tast, such a quantity of sliced Apples, as would make so much water strong enough of Apples; and then bottle it up close for three or four months.
Boil these well in water, as you make water-grewel, adding a good proportion of Cinnamon to boil also in due time, then strain it through a cloth, and sweeten it to your taste.
Make your Metheglin as soon as ever you take your Bees; for if you wash your combs in the water you boil your herbs in, when it is cold, it will sweeten much.
Set as many upright in your dish as you can: and so fill it up with Cream, and sweeten it with Sugar and Mace; and stew them between two dishes.
Do not sweeten but pass sugar and unwhipped cream with them.
Brown sugar or molasses may be used to sweeten apple pies once in a while as some people are very fond of those sweets.
When well dissolved, pour in a pint of boiling coffee, sweeten to taste, and set aside to cool.
Beat the whites of 3 eggs to a stiff froth, sweeten and flavor, and place large spoonfuls over the top of the float.
Boil 6 tart apples, after paring them as for sauce, remove from fire, sweeten a little.
