Just upon the boil, too," he added, addressing the kettle, as he changed it from the trivet on to the glowing coals.
Right as a trivet yes'day morning and now in such a hobble as this, just like any common chap as goes and kills his mate.
I see a pump, with a trivet underneath its spout whereon to stand the vessels that are brought to be filled with water.
Moreover, Sir Thomas Trivet and Sir William Helmon are too full of ardour to act with discretion, and are ready enough to back up the bishop in his hot desire to be doing something.
To this Sir Thomas Trivetand Sir William Helmon cordially agreed.
Trivet does not refer to this motion towards the bed; he merely says that Constance and Hermegild were both in the same bed.
Trivet merely says--the other converts to the faith.
It appears that Nicholas Trivet was an English Dominican friar, who died some time after 1334.
Endlong the bord as they be set Trivet merely says that they killed all the Christians.
It is remarkable that Trivet says that king Alle caused himself to be baptized; there is not a word about others.
Gower follows Trivet rather closely, with but few omissions, and only one addition of any importance, about thirty lines long.
As to the instances in which one poet has copied the other, whilst at the same time Trivet does not suggest the phraseology which they employ, Luecke gives twenty-seven examples in Anglia, xiv.
A remarkable case; for Trivet makes it a new ship--'vne neef.
Trivet puts it differently--'he heaped the death hugely on the maid.
This instance is the more remarkable because Trivet says, 'saunz sigle et sauntz neuiroun,' i.
Some tell us that the trivet is a three-legged thing and must therefore necessarily stand firm, while we know by experience that a four-legged article will not always do so.
Whatever the true explanation may be the rightness of a trivet is an article of popular faith, and no theorising will have any power to upset our firm belief in its rectitude.
Boil all together in three quarts of broth or soft water; let them simmer gently on a trivet over a slow fire for three hours, and keep them stirring, to prevent burning at the bottom of the kettle.
Pour a little water into the bottom, and put under and round the trivet a sufficiency of pared potatoes, either white or sweet ones.
Boil them very carefully, and when they are done, peel them, pour off the water, and set them on a trivet before the fire till they are quite dry and powdery.
Wash it, rub it with salt, and place it on a trivet in a deep block tin or iron pan.
Lay it on a stand or trivet in a deep dish or pan, and stick it over with bits of butter rolled in flour.
Put the vinegar and spice into a jar, bung it down tightly, tie a bladder over, and let it stand on the hob or on a trivet by the side of the fire for three or four days; shake it well three or four times a day.
Trivet tells us no more about him, except that he accounts for the title 'of Cappadocia' by saying that Arsemius (the senator who found Constance and Maurice and took care of them) was a Cappadocian.
Trivet says that the old [159] Queen was then at Knaresborough, situated 'between England and Scotland, as in an intermediate place.
Trivet says that she answered Elda in his own language, 'en sessoneys,' in Saxon, for she had learnt many languages in her youth.
But this is not conclusive, since we find that Nicholas Trivet also makes mention of the same circumstances.
She waved a large hand towards a fat brown jug standing on a trivet by the grate.
She put her burden of buttered toast on a trivet in the fender, and said breathlessly: "'Ope I see yer well, sir.
But whereas in Trivet the characters are mere lay figures set up to illustrate the power of Christianity and the evil fate which befalls the opponents of Mother Church, in Chaucer they have an individuality of their own.
Trivet gives us lurid details concerning the vengeance that falls on Alle's mother.
Trivet agrees with the second statement, but obviously confuses (p.
Trivet has an account which is simply a careless abridgment of Hemingburgh (Hemingburgh, ii.
Trivet briefly says that Bruce "invited" Valence to come out and fight (Annals, p.
Now put the meat on a trivet in the kettle; half cover with boiling water; and add a tablespoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of pepper, an onion and a small carrot cut fine, and two or three sprigs of parsley.
Put a trivet or small iron stand into a soup-pot, and lay the beef upon it.
It is always better to place the meat on a trivet or stand made to fit easily in the roasting-pan, so that it may not become sodden in the water used for gravy.
No, no, after the Christmas holidays at Ambles he'll be as right as a trivet without a sea-voyage.
As it is, I shall probably never know what a trivet is; but if I had a secretary, I should ask her to look it up in the dictionary when we got home.
They'll turn up as right as a trivet in another minute or two.
I'll bind it up and I'll be as right as a trivet in the morning.
No bed-room can look really comfortable without a trivet and a kettle; a brass kettle for preference, as squat and fat and shining as it is possible to procure.
Of course I would have a trivet on the fire, or before it.
The date of the trivet is 1668, and on the top is also engraved the owner's monogram.
From the three-legged stool with hooks or handle there came a minor development in the form of a light portable trivet without legs, which could only be used when hung on the bars.
On the other side of the room there is a fine brass trivet standing in front of the hearth, on which are andirons, and logs ready for the firing; close by is a quaint old candlestick.
The trivet or revolving stool, small or large, was in the fender or on the hearth, and massive fire brasses (not irons) filled the empty spaces.
The construction of this trivet is somewhat unusual in that it is strengthened with a cross-bar; the feet are of spear-head shape.
These varieties presented the worker in brass with an excellent opportunity of showing his decorative skill, and brass trivet tops soon became very ornamental.
The convenience of being able to put the trivet stool quite close up to the bars suggested to the maker of such things the addition of hooks by which the trivet could be hung upon the bar, thereby bringing it nearer to the heat.
Trivet reports the loss of the Scotch at twenty thousand; Matthew of Westminster raises it to forty thousand.
The original authorities for this description of the Kenilworth Round-Table festival are Trivet and Walsingham, and the passages may be seen either in their histories, ad an.
Sprinkle small cubes of fat salt pork thickly over the bottom of a dripping pan, set a wire trivet or rack on pork and lay meat on trivet.
An old saucepan has been reared up in the corner, and there is a trivet on the hearth.
But she still hovered anxiously over the pot, gravely considering how many minutes longer it should rest on its trivet over the glowing coals.
After stooping to turn the coffee-pot round on its trivet she faced the room again.
It'll only knock him over for the race; he'll be right as a trivetafter it.
Meat, fish and chickens was fried in a griddle iron what was sot on a flat topped trivet wid slits to let de fire thoo.
Dey called it a trivet 'cause it sot on three legs and hot coals was raked up under it.
