" "I don't understand you," she replied with her usual gentle frankness and simple logical consistency.

Prepare a rich well-flavoured brown stock, rubbing through the greater part of the German lentils, &c., to make it of a thick creamy consistency.

Jellies are the juices of fruits boiled with sugar to a pretty thick consistency, so as, upon cooling, to form a trembling jelly; as currant, gooseberry, apple jelly, &c. 5.

No doubt he felt a kind of poetical consistency in recovering his money through this ominous insignium.

Dr. Bullions's notion on this point, is stated with so little consistency, that one can hardly say what it is.

BROWN SAUCES, generally speaking, should scarcely be so thick as white sauces; and it is well to bear in mind, that all those which are intended to mask the various dishes of poultry or meat, should be of a sufficient consistency to slightly adhere to the fowls or joints over which they are poured.

The fat of the best beef is of a firm and waxy consistency, of a colour resembling that of the finest grass butter; bright in appearance, neither greasy nor friable to the touch, but moderately unctuous, in a medium degree between the last-mentioned properties.

He answers Strauss as he answers Renan, by producing the interpretation of a character, so living, so in accordance with all before and after, that it overpowers and sweeps away objections; a picture, an analysis or outline, if he pleases, which justifies itself and is its own evidence, by its originality and internal consistency.

The Ecphoneme, or Note of Exclamation, is used to denote a pause with some strong emotion of admiration, joy, grief, or other feeling; and, as a sign of great wonder, it is sometimes, though not very elegantly, repeated: as, "Grammatical consistency!!!

When quite tender mix in enough bread crumbs to make a rather stiff consistency, also 1 or 2 ozs.

Oh, rare consistency in this boasted age of light, and science, and learning!

To this purpose Mr. Pierre M. Irving has adhered with uniform consistency.

That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked the work of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not experience a serious slump.

We shall not decide on the lawfulness or otherwise of any attempt to depict such importations; we can only rest perfectly satisfied that, granting the author's premises, it is impossible to imagine them carried out with more felicitous skill and more exquisite consistency than in the heroine of "Vanity Fair."

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

There was no forced consistency.

Fechner was in fact too little of a metaphysician to care for perfect formal consistency in these abstract regions.

But short of this there can be no value in coherency and harmonious consistency as such.

This influence was derived from the purity of his life, and the holy consistency of his conduct.

His very custom of developing a principle straight on to its ultimate consequences, without regard to the needs of the heart or to logical demands from other directions, make it impossible for the results of the various lines of thought to be themselves in harmony; his vertical consistency prevents horizontal consistency.

Again I was silenced by the loyal simplicity with which she followed out ideas so strange to me that their consequences, however logical, I could never anticipate; and could hardly admit to be sound, even when so directly and distinctly deduced as now from the intolerable consistency of the premises.

Since cold water extracts the albuminous juices, while boiling water hardens them into a leathery consistency, water used for stewing should be neither cold nor boiling, but of a temperature which will barely coagulate the albumen and retain it in the meat in as tender a condition as possible; i.e., about 134° to 160°.

The sauce should be of a light, frothy consistency throughout.

Marmalades and jams differ little from each other: they are preserves of a half-liquid consistency, made by boiling the pulp of fruits, and sometimes part of the rinds, with sugar.

In point of literary consistency the hero is at all events impugnable, though we cannot say as much for the heroine.