And just as the farmers back home fatten a pig for market, so the girls are fattened and sold for slave wives.

The desert sand had disappeared, and here the soil supported a good growth of grass that would fatten the cattle.

In Maryland and Virginia, peaches grow nearly wild in orchards resembling forests; but the fruit is of little value for the table, being employed only in fattening hogs and for the distillation of peach brandy.

For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistressalthough the latter was by no means an agreeable person.

He would have gone on fattening the beast for ever had he been allowed, soothing his conscience over the waste with the vague hope that this pig of exceptional loveliness and vigour would grow to the size of a donkey if it were permitted to take its time.

"Why, George, what can the pony want with sugar?" "Why, ma'am, you said some time ago that the pony looked thin, so lately I have always mixed sugar with his corn; nothing fattens a horse like sugar.

Others would prepare her, as one might fatten a lamb for slaughter.

Here, too, that bluff John Bull, whose blood boils high At such base wares of foreign luxury; Who scorns to revel in imported cheer, Who prides in perry, and exults in beer: On these his surly virtue shall regale, With quickening cyder, and with fattening ale.

On the other hand, I fatten the bulls up on grass and straw and hay for two months before the breeding season, and during that time I keep them apart from the cows.

The Essex farmers have obtained a celebrity for fattening calves better than any others in England, where they are plentifully supplied with milk, a thing impossible to be done in the immediate neighbourhood of London.

It was of a well-intentioned beetle who fattened a nice green caterpillar for its family's thanksgiving dinner, and the thing went and spun itself into a cocoon the night before!

Of that fair surface of rounded cheek, fattened chin, and noble brow not a square inch was left ungouged.

"If I gave him away, I suppose he would be fatted and killed, of course?" "I guess he'd be killed, likely; but as for fattenin' on him, I'd jest as soon undertake to fatten a salt codfish.

Foul and loathsome they were, and we knew that they owed their existence to, and fattened on, the putrid corpses of dead men and animals which lay rotting and unburied in every direction.

Then, maybe, dangling from thy gloomy gallows boughs, A human corpse swings, mournful, rattling bones and chains His eighteenth century flesh hath fattened nineteenth century cows Ghastly Aeolian harp fingered of winds and rains.

When fully fattened, the thin cuticle, that is one of its characteristics, cracks, from the adipose distension beneath, exposing the fatty mass, which discharges a liquid oil from the adjacent tissues.

One half of the room was full of swinefat, blowse-necked Jewish men, lawyers, cadets, owners of housesall the low breeds who fatten off the degradation of women.

The best time for fattening doves is about the harvest, for then the mothers are in their best condition and produce young ones not only in the largest number but the best for cramming: so that is the time when they are most profitable.

The simple way to fatten ducks is to let them have as much, substantial food as they will eat, bruised oats and pea-meal being the standard fattening food for them.

how durst you fatten upon olios and ragouts, and set trash like this before your husband?""My dear," replied Juana, meekly, "I am starving; nothing have I tasted since breakfast.

For where the Egyptians yearly see their bounds Refreshed with floods, and sail about their grounds, Where Persia borders, and the rolling Nile Drives swiftly down the swarthy Indian's soil, Till into seven it multiplies its stream, 370 And fattens Egypt with a fruitful slime:

indicating surprise wonderful, gracious *castigar* punish *castillo* m. castle *castizo* chaste, pure *causa* f. cause, sake *cé* ts (hissing sound made to call some one's attention) *cebolla* f. onion *cebón* fattened *ceder* yield *ceja* f. eyebrow; *entre y * in one's head *cenar* dine *cenefa* f. border.

I drew on the latter, fattening my figure with straw to fill them.

and with his own eye doth both fatten his flock and set forward all manner of husbandry.

The simple way to fatten ducks is to let them have as much, substantial food as they will eat, bruised oats and pea-meal being the standard fattening food for them.