At length emerging from a narrow-throated gorge, a small house came in sight set in a thicket of fig-trees at the base of a limestone hill.

Faradjyfopeats fire and fig-leaves now; The while Hasan the Rat excites him on To doughty deeds with his loud tambourine.

No clothing concealed the tense and shiny brown skin, but there were silver bracelets on the fat wrists and massive anklets where deep creases divided the fat little feet from the fat little legs, and a representation, in chased silver, of Eve's fig leaf hung from a silver chain which encircled the sphere that should have been his waist.

Fig pudding. 1972.

FARINA WITH FIG SAUCE.Cook the farina as in the foregoing recipe, and serve hot with a fig sauce prepared as follows: Carefully look over, washed, and chop or cut quite finally, enough good figs to make a cupful.

The Leicester battery arrived at Foka just in time to unlimber and get into action behind a fig orchard in order to disperse a couple of companies of enemy infantry which were working round the left flank of the Staffordshire Yeomanry at Khurbet Meita, below the Zeitun height.

Beyond the tops of the elm, beech, and fig groves, we saw the picturesque green summits of the lower ranges of Giaour Dagh, in the north-east, while over the southern meadows a golden gleam of sunshine lay upon the Gulf of Scanderoon.

In the fig-market were thousands of boxes being prepared and packed for exportation.

Some of the nuts are shaped like a fresh fig, and 'fig-nut' seems to be the name originally intended.

In summer, when the early fruit was ripe, she used to visit his house, gather fruit in his garden, and would always come to us with full pockets, bringing us egg-plums, saffron apples, fig-pears, and many other fruits.

Immense quantities of the fruit are dried and packed in Asiatic Turkey for exportation from this city, and it is said that in the fig season nothing else is talked about there.

Nay, 'tis older news that foreign sailor With the cheek of sea-tan stops to prattle To the young fig-seller with her basket 15 And the breasts that bud beneath her tunic, And I hear it in the rustling tree-tops.

In Lancashire fig-sue is made, a mixture consisting of sliced figs, nutmeg, ale, and bread.

She'd pray that the time would come when everybody could worship the Lord under their own vine and fig treeall of them free.

The paw-paw tree (annona triloba) produces a fruit somewhat resembling in taste and shape the fig-banana, but certainly much inferior to that delicious fruit.

No, she was a footlights favourite; wore her mane in plaits and a star-spangled bearing-rein and surcingle to improve her fig-u-are; did pretty parlour tricks to the strains of the banjo and psaltery.

They will be the shape of the fig bars you buy.

Horapollo, or rather his commentator Bolzani, says, that when the master of the house is going a journey, he hangs out a broom of fig boughs for good luck.

The villagers around used to ascend the hill on Palm Sunday to eat "fig cakes" and drink sugar and water.

If I was trustin' a girl, I'll bet ye a bob she wud turn oot to be yin o' the sort that pinches a chap's wages afore they're warmed in his pooch, an' objec's to him smokin' a fag, an' tak's the huff if he calls her fig-face.'

For the same reason water is dangerous to a new fig graft because its soft wood rots easily.

FIG MARGUERITES Put in top of double boiler 7/8 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons water.