This one blacked his shoes, that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons.

If I can keep Pansy out of the conservatory, we three can accomplish all there is to be done; so you go and sit by the library fire, and toast your toes and read, or play with the cat, or do whatever you please.

Fresh Fruit Corn Meal Mush Snowflake Toast Oatmeal Gems Toasted Wafers Fruit Bread Baked Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Potato Soup Baked Potatoes with Tomato Cream Sauce Mashed or Stewed Peas Canned Corn Graham Mush Pulled Bread Fruit Bread Graham Crackers

"While Mrs. Somerville talked, the old gentleman, seated by the fire, busied himself in toasting a slice of bread on a fork, which he kept at a slow-toasting distance from the coals.

As an ex-doc, let me toast your health.

What halcyon days, when the aristocratic palaces* shall be purified by solacing the fatigues of republican virtue, and the levellers of all distinction travel with four horses and a military escort!But, as Robespierre observes, you are two centuries behind the French in patriotism and information; and I doubt if English republicanism will ever go beyond a dinner, and toasting the manes of Hampden and Sydney.

She toasted marshmallows over the gas jet; she spread a shawl on the trunk; or she surprised Freddy by pinning pictures out of the funny page on the wall.

The dictograph told her that nightly his uncle and he in the seclusion of their home toasted America's arch enemy, the German Kaiser.

One man, more venturesome than the others, had even dared to creep close up to the rear of the house and had seen through the window the workmen, gathered about their supper of beer and sausages, toasting the Kaiser with the unanimity of a set formality.

The woman who toasts the cakes, which is done on an iron plate suspended over the fire, is called the queen, or bride, and the rest are called her maidens.

She had seen men, in the Café des Exiles, toast their mistresses with such looks as Victor Vassilyevski reserved for the girl whom he claimed as his child.

Chorus Then toast with me our happy land, Where all that’s fair prevails, Our colour’s blue and our hearts are true, In sunny New South Wales.

And just then, hearing the old man's tread returning along the corridor, he stole back to his chair, and began toasting his wet legs before the charcoal pan.

"Not at all; for when this happened, I always made them take a little warm brandy, or wine and water, and made them toast their feet well by the fire."

That same evening Mr. Tutt was toasting his carpet slippers before the sea-coal fire in his library, sipping a hot toddy and rereading for the eleventh time the "Lives of the Chancellors" when Miranda, who had not yet finished washing the few dishes incident to her master's meager supper, pushed open the door and announced that a lady was calling.

She heated the soup, toasted the crackers, and forced Lena to eat.

So elated was he by his success, that, yielding to his natural inclination for hard drinking, he continued to revel so freely and so long with his follower, that daybreak found them over their wine, the one toasting the grocer's daughter, and the other Patience, when they both staggered off to bed.

I'll toast Britain's daughterslet all fill their glasses Whose beauty and virtue the whole world surpasses.

Ah, dear Fanny, you don't know how we poor students carry away with us to college some consuming passion which we feed and nurture;how we toast the Dulcinea at oyster parties, and, like Corydon, sigh over her miniature.

man, look cheerful, We'll toast her firstand a daintier bit never swam in a bowland play for her afterwards!

They had opened some tins of sardines and sitting around a bucket of blazing coals they were toasting the fish on the ends of small twigs.

"Forty-five" was the neutral ground where the correspondents planned campaigns for all the armies of the Union, arranged the downfall of the Rebellion, expressed their views of military measures and military men, exulted over successes, mourned over defeats, and toasted in full glasses the flag that our soldiers upheld.

Heroes were we all, last nightnay, very Titansfour 'gainst an army!whiles now, within this balmy-breathing morn you shall see Walkyn o' the Bloody Axe with grim Black Rogerkin, down at the brook yonder, a-sprawl upon their bellies busily a-tickling trout for breakfast, while I, whose good yew bow carrieth death in every twang, toasting deer-flesh on a twig, am mocked of wanton warblers

One wonders whether he got to toast "All our Friends" out of it before he died.

We lovers of sea centipedes toasted the brave governor vociferously.