Acton smacked him on the back, and called him a trump; while Jack Vance presented him on the spot with a mince-pie, which had been slightly damaged in one of the donor's many tumbles, but was, as he remarked, "just as good as new for eating.

Order the chickens as for fricassy, and form the pie deep, lay in the bottom a mince-meat made of the chicken's livers, ham, parsley and yolks of eggs; season with white pepper, mace, and a little salt; moisten with butter, then lay the chicken above the minc'd meat, and a little more butter; cover the pie and bake it two hours; when baked take off the fat, and add to it white gravy, with a little juice of lemon.

It's no good mincing matters, old boy, the woman is crazy mad about methere you've got it straightin a nutshell.

Willy shall be welcome to a mince pye, and a bout at Commerce, whenever he comes.

You need not mince matters.

Her face changed expression, and in her nasty mincing manner she began to throw out hints that Nora Glynn would not suit the nuns.

Deliro's wife, and idol; a proud mincing peat, and as perverse as he is officious.

" "Well, sir, is not a race-horse a poor mincing thing until her blood gets up galloping?"

The men among these had a pride of place as butlers and coachmen, painters and carpenters; the women fitted themselves trimly with the cast-off silks and muslins of their mistresses, walked with mincing tread, and spoke in quiet tones with impressive nicety of grammar.

It is idle to mince phrases.

I once bore this in mind after being several times teased in this manner; and resolving not to be so deceived again, I succeeded in regaling myself with a mince-piewhich appeared to me quite in the light of a triumph.

'Tis very true Sir, O the pyes, The piping-hot mince-pyes! Prig.

Miss Sallianna was a young lady of thirty-two or three, with long corkscrew curls, a wiry figurea smile, of the description called "simper," on her lips, and an elegant mincing carriage of the person as she moved.