" The necessary orders were given and a short time later the men were eating heartily.

He was so weak that he could scarcely eat the food that she put in his mouth, so she let him lick some milk from her finger.

We ate them greedily, because we had nothing else to do.

The animal food had been provided for me, for the Brahmin satisfied his hunger with the ghee, sweetmeats, and biscuit, and ate sparingly even of them.

The meal was delicious, and the girls ate ravenously, but from time to time one of them would shift uneasily in her seat and look nervously over her shoulder into the dark corners of the room.

The deadly nightshade is a plant of ill omen, and Gerarde describing it says, "if you will follow my counsel, deal not with the same in any case, and banish it from your gardens, and the use of it also, being a plant so furious and deadly; for it bringeth such as have eaten thereof into a dead sleep, wherein many have died."

USES OF THE TRUFFLE.Like the Morel, truffles are seldom eaten alone, but are much used in gravies, soups, and ragoûts.

"Trench, though a capital fellow, was so hungry that he ate voraciously.

At Las Uvas they keep up all the good customs brought out of Old Mexico or bred in a lotus-eating land; drink, and are merry and look out for something to eat afterward; have children, nine or ten to a family, have cock-fights, keep the siesta, smoke cigarettes and wait for the sun to go down.

The sweet potato is but rarely eaten in Britain; but in America it is often served at table, and is there very highly esteemed.

" Tom swallowed his coffee and hastily ate a sandwich, but the others, without Tom's reason for haste, ate hungrily.

She breakfasted at the buffet in the railway station, eating hurriedly, as if she was afraid of missing this train; then she dragged herself into the dusty garden, going from bench to bench in the pale, mild sunshine, among omnibuses and hackney coaches.

She ate it hungrily, and sipped from her cup of fragrant coffee.

The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with cocoanut oil, of which my crazy comrades ate eagerly, but I only tasted a few grains, understanding clearly that the object of our captors was to fatten us speedily for their own eating, and this was exactly what happened.

Yet, so used are their highnesses to this trade, that they eat as comfortably and heartily as you or I could do in our own parlours.

"That," she said, calmly eating her dessert, "was a glance of scornburning, bitter scorn!"

Their taste is, perhaps, too much inclined to that which is accounted solid and substantial; but they really eat more moderately, even of animal food, than either the French or the Germans.

Adèle Haggage and Hugh Van Orden were conversing in low tones at one end of the table; the Colonel was eating his luncheon, silently and with a certain air of resignation; and so Billy Woods was left alone to attend and marvel.

It is so light that the most delicate organizations may readily eat it.

Thus the horse-parsley was so called from its coarseness as compared with smallage or celery, and the horse-mushroom from its size in distinction to a species more commonly eaten.

She had a smile and a kind word for every one as before; she had eaten mechanically; but she had lain with wide-open eyes all night, and still no one had seen a single tear upon her cheeks.

"Great care should be used," be says, that the child "eat bread plentifully, both alone and with everything else; and whatever he eats that is solid, make him chew it well."

"Never in all my bohn life," says the Colonel after eating steadily for some time"never in a year, sah, have I thought as much about food as I do in a day on thistrail.

Nig! Colonel, don't do it!" He dashed into the circle of firelight, and beheld Nig standing with a bandaged paw, placidly eating softened biscuit out of the family frying-pan.

"It is true," said Cais, "that I am dying of hunger, but by Him who abides always, and will abide forever, I came not here merely to eat your victuals.