But look at the clock,five minutes to supper-time, and I've got to 'do' my hair all over, the braid is so frowzely.

He gave no heed to supper that dreadful night.

Buckheath had been a week at the Himes boarding-house, finding it not unpleasant to show Johnnie Consadine how many of the girls regarded him with favour, whether she did or not, when he came to supper one evening with a gleam in his eye that spoke evil for some one.

It was just before the call to supper formation when England's coast loomed up.

Certainly it was not the sort of apartment in which a High Court judge might be expected to do his entertaining, but Rolfe recalled that he had heard gossip to the effect that Sir Horace, because of his virtual estrangement from his daughter, did very little entertaining beyond an occasional bridge or supper party to his sporting friends, and rarely went into Society.

Immediately after supper the princes and distinguished strangers and W. departed.

All kinds of cold meat and solid fish may be dressed à la Mayonnaise, and make excellent luncheon or supper dishes.

We sat down to supper, "Doctor," said I, "how can you be so calm?" "Why, my boy," he said, "I counted on such, long agoand worse; besides, you know that I believe everything will come right.

" "Like other cooks I do not supper dress, That put whole meadows into a platter, And make no better of their guests than beeves, With herbs and grass to feed them fatter.

All the time Ted was as happy as a sand-boy, and one evening when Emma asked 'im to go 'ome to supper 'e was so pleased 'e could 'ardly speak.

They brought me for supper a roast fowl, rice, and hard eggs, and for dessert, oranges and tamarind-pods; the latter contain a brown, half sweet, half sour pulp, very agreeable to the taste.

We sat down to supper as glum as pump-handles, there were some frittersI never knew anybody beat your mother at fritterssmoking hot off the stove, and some maple molasses in one of the best chiny tea-cups; I knew well enough it was just on purpose for my last night, but I never had a word to say, and Nancy crumbed up the children's bread with a jerk.

In the sixteenth century they put back dinner one hour and supper three hours, to which many people objected.

I wuz beat out when I got home and Miss Huff sent Aunt Pheeny up to my room with a glass of hot lemonade and some crackers, supper not bein' quite ready owin' to shiftless works in the kitchen.

Luffe listened gravely and politely; but he was thinking of an evening when he had taken out to supper a reigning queen of comic opera.

He dreamedas they tell usthat Cæsar invited him to supper, and, upon his refusal to go, caught him by the hand and drew him after him, in spite of all the resistance he could make.

A little while after supper a large covered waggon drew up before the door.

"'Twas funnyone time Joe an' Green, two niggers on our place, et dey supper an' run 'way at night an' afte' dey was kotched, dey tol' us dat when dey was passin' through de woods dat night

Your Company to supper, Sir. Bar.

o' the toun the nightwill ye come and tak' tea and supper wi' the wife and me, and a freend or twa?' "'I dinna care though I do,' says I; 'but I'm no just in a tea-drinkin' dress.' "'Ne'er mind the dress,' says he.

Come, who will buy them of me? Buttons, a farthing a pair! HOT BOILED BEANS Ladies and gentlemen come to supper Hot boiled beans and very good butter.

I wuz beat out when I got home and Miss Huff sent Aunt Pheeny up to my room with a glass of hot lemonade and some crackers, supper not bein' quite ready owin' to shiftless works in the kitchen.

Ae night he didna come in as usual for his four-hours, and supper time cam, and we sent a' round about to seek him, but naebody had heard o' him.

That Aaron King had won the approval of the Ranger was evidenced by the mountaineer's inviting himself to supper the camp in the sycamores.

"You mark my word," said Diggory, "as soon as the prefects have gone down to supper those chaps from over the way'll come across and pay us out for throwing that soap.