The one-eyed Arab led our horses to the stable, and while my two attendants were inside unpacking the tinned food and the wine I carried with me on a mule, I entered into conversation with the Spahi, who spoke French fairly well.
The officers took up their quarters in the stern deck house, where we had cocoa, tinned meat, etc.
In the great hotel there I found a prodigious supply of tinned provisions.
He took with him his sister and his mother and most of our tinned provisions.
And frequently I found supplies oftinned provisions in the store-rooms.
The place became a charnel house, and in the middle of the night the survivors fled forth, taking nothing with them except arms and ammunition and a heavy store of tinned foods.
And on the third day, putting what small store of tinned provisions I possessed on the pony's back, I started on across a very lonely land.
A few tomatoes sliced and fried along with, or instead of the carrot, or a cupful of tinned tomatoes would be a great improvement.
Add a tomato peeled and chopped, or a little of the juice from tinned tomatoes, a teaspoonful grated onion, and a very little flour.
Tinned tomatoes may be used when fresh ones are not at hand.
When fresh tomatoes are not to be had tinned ones will do.
A barrel of flour, some tinned goods, canvas and rope for a tent.
Andy and Terence at once made for the provision-room, and returned laden with flour, salt beef, tinned goods, and some small chests of pressed tea.
If he hadn’t, we wouldn’t be eating tinnedgoods would we?
He dashed off to the boat as he spoke, and soon returned with a beaming face, his arms piled high with tinned goods.
At the moment of their approach, Alex was taking the fish from the fire, Clay was opening tinned goods, and Uncle Zeke stood mourning over the fact that he had not sooner discovered the presence of the yellow-legged chicken.
Copper, Mill saws, Iron and tinned rivetts, Brass kettles of all sizes, &c.
Vessels defective in this respect, or tinned with tin containing lead, exert an injurious effect upon the aroma of the water.
The flowers to be extracted are piled upon tinned metallic plates, and the trays containing the fat and the flowers are placed in an air-tight chamber arranged as shown in the illustration.
The only luxury was a small ration of tinned milk.
By December the milk-farms outside the town had been looted, and fresh milk began to be very scarce; even tinned milk could not be bought without a doctor’s order, countersigned by the military officer who was in charge of the stores.
The biscuits and tinned meat had been stored four years in a tropical climate; the meat-tins were covered inside by a coating of green mould, and the biscuits were either too hard to bite or were half-eaten already by weevils.
But instead of plants it contains about four dozen of drying pans, made of copper, 7½ feet by 4½ feet, and tinned inside.
The little Frenchwoman brought me some dinner at one o'clock, pork, tinned tomatoes, and a cup of coffee.
I took with me a gun, fishing rods and tackle, a mosquito net, plenty of cigars and a hamper of tinned meats, tea, coffee and biscuits.
I lived most regularly and monotonously; rising at eight I partook of coffee made by my landlady, accompanied by tinned fruit for which I formed a great taste.
And Faiz Ullah laid his long thin hand carefully on Scott's chest to be sure that the fever was all gone, ere he went out to open tinned soups and discourage such as laughed at his swelled nose.
Dinner at the Martyns' was a decided improvement on the goat-mutton, twiney-tough fowl, and tinned entrees of the Club.
Of course, no fresh meat can be had, so we shall have to manage on tinned meat and vegetables, of which, fortunately, we have an abundant and varied supply.
When the poison is derived from the tins, as it was in some cases of poisoning from tinned cherries, death is not very common.
It is of great importance to recognise what the poison in tinned meats is, and where it comes from.
A quantity of one of these alkaloids (occasionally found in tinned sardines), which is so small as to be almost impossible to demonstrate, has killed a whole family in twenty-four hours.
For some years back we have been able to get tinned pears, peaches, apricots, etc.
This is a great mistake, for although tinned goods do sometimes become contaminated with the metal of the tins, this is only very seldom the case.
As is usual in such arguments, the truth lies somewhere between these extreme points, and we will endeavour to explain what are the various good and bad qualities of tinned foods.
The public has been completely fogged over the subject of tinnedmeats for years past.
Again, it must be remembered thattinned goods will not keep when once the tin has been opened.
This development of poisons intinned meats is a totally different phenomenon from putrefaction.
Some persons have tried to prove that tinned articles are better than fresh ones; whilst others have decided that all preserved foods are poisonous, and that those who partake of them do so at the risk of their lives.
In the first place, we must notice that tinned eatables are very much better now than they were some years ago.
It may be said that all the tinned articles which are allowed to come into London are perfectly wholesome while they are fresh; it is only after they have been kept some time that they become injurious.
This is particularly the case with the tinned fruits from California (the preparation of which is, we believe, entirely carried on by girls).
A large number of deaths have occurred from eating tinned meats which have been opened several days previously.
We must push on and get touch with our loose squadron to-night," said the brigadier, as he and his staff made a hasty midday meal off tinned sausages and eggs cooked by the terrified women of the farmhouse.
None the less it was the best that the house could produce; and as the guests had taken the precaution to bring their own liquor, it was a change from the tinned delicacies of the modern active service meal.
Tinned fish often gives rise to symptoms of poisoning, and shell-fish are not uncommonly contaminated with pathogenic micro-organisms.
The most wholesome material for culinary utensils is thin sheet iron, or tinned iron plate (TIN), which is very durable if kept clean and dry when not in use.
To construct it, a plate of tinned iron is made into a circle of about 12 inches diameter; a raised border is then turned up for about half an inch, and the extreme edge is turned outwards over a wire to avoid a sharp border.
Another firm sells candlesticks of inferior packfong as Britannia metal, and another actually sells tinned Bessemer steel-plate cups as guaranteed Britannia silver.
Foils were formerly made of copper, tinned copper, tin, and silvered copper, but the last is the one wholly used for superior work at the present day.
And they all offered the same bill of fare--tea with tinned milk, eggs, and spring onions!
At fixed hours the latter carries food to his lord in tinned copper bowls on a large round tray, knives and forks not having penetrated to Kochanes.
As a result of this strenuous life, though we were often very cold and very hungry, we were, with few exceptions easily traceable to bad tinned food, never sick or sorry for ourselves the whole time.
Two or three times during my stay at Ingolstadt I remember the meat was quite good, and, if it was eatable at all, we enjoyed it enormously, as fresh meat was such a welcome change after the tinned food which we ate continually.
Every man to his taste," growled Tarrant; "and if a chap likes tinned meat he's welcome.
With tinned meat and no beer, and more flies in the open in the middle of winter than you get over a stable at home in August!
Of course I do, just as if you were my brother; but just now I forget whether it is tinned meats or bullocks.
And there was church parade; and afterwards came dinner of tinned roast beef, fish which some of the persevering had caught in the Nile, and an ostrich egg, which a friendly native had brought in, and which proved fresh.
You may despise tinned food at home, when you can get fresh-killed meat and poultry not so overcooked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
