Do we say beat or beet

beat 7111 occurrences

My heart beat as I dismounted and looked at the dead man's face.

The quick drum-beat to quarters for action rang sharply through the ship.

Were I a lilting bird, I'd fly with my song and my joy and my pain, And beat at your lattice like summer-rain, Till I knew that your inmost heart was stirred.

"Turgid are thy waters, Mother, As they beat upon the shore.

" When Mcher heard the voice for the third time he beat down the door and went out.

To-day or to-morrow my head will burst, or I may beat it to pieces against a stone wall.

"Grab the wounded men an' beat it!"

Directly the heavy beat of marching feet came up to the window, heard above the roar of the mob below.

"And her pawthough Lord knows who her maw wasa-dressing her to beat the cars; while he ain't never made over me since the blessed day I married himnot that much!

Valerius Maximus tells us that Egnatius Mecenas, a Roman knight, beat his wife to death for drinking wine.

Behind the glorious saint marched Rafael and the gentlemen of the Ayuntamiento with long wax tapers; and after them the curate, grumbling as he heard the first dashes of rain beat on the large red silk umbrella which the sacristan held over him, and felt the impact of the crowd of orchard-folk, that was mixed at random with the musicians.

Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name.

The heart begins to beat before birth; it continues to beat until the end of life.

The heart begins to beat before birth; it continues to beat until the end of life.

What they themselves failed to note, was that the first beat was always given firmly; and that it was in the divisions of one measure, and by subtle compensations, that he made the difference.

He that had seen this brave fellow Charge through a grove of Pikes but t'other day, and look upon him now, will ne'r believe his eyes again: if he continue thus but two days more, a Taylor may beat him with one hand tied behind him.

1. There is another: a new cause rising from the time and distance, in which I will deliver my opinion: he may strike, beat, or cause to be beaten: for these are natural to man: your Prince, I say, may beat you, so far forth as his dominion reacheth, that's for the distance; the time, ten miles a day, I take it.

1. There is another: a new cause rising from the time and distance, in which I will deliver my opinion: he may strike, beat, or cause to be beaten: for these are natural to man: your Prince, I say, may beat you, so far forth as his dominion reacheth, that's for the distance; the time, ten miles a day, I take it.

Lyg. Then Ca[p]tain Bessus, you are a rank rascall, without more exordiums, a durty frozen slave; and with the favor of your friends here I will beat you.

do that you do not use to do; tell truth, or by my hand, I'le beat your Captains brains out, wash'em, and put 'em in again, that will I. Bes.

Well I can ask no more, you will think it strange not to have me beat you at first sight.

Here is a good Cudgel Sir. Bac. It comes too late I'me weary, pray thee do thou beat them.

Ile beat your Captaines braines out.

Well, I can aske no more, you would thinke it strange Now to have me beat you at first sight.

What brought the child's pulse to beat with feverish throbs and the hair on his head to rise, also exercised its power in Motala, over the old man from Trollhätta.

beet 204 occurrences

The root of garden or red beet is exceedingly wholesome and nutritious, and Dr. Lyon Playfair has recommended that a good brown bread may be made by rasping down this root with an equal quantity of flour.

of azotized principles adapted for the formation of flesh, and the average quality of beet contains about 2 per cent.

BEETROOT.There are two sorts of Beet,white and red; occasionally, in the south, a yellow variety is met with.

Everybody knows that the beet has competed with the sugar-cane, and a great part of the French sugar is manufactured from beet.

Everybody knows that the beet has competed with the sugar-cane, and a great part of the French sugar is manufactured from beet.

Youth, of course, can digest it; but to persons of a certain age beet is very indigestible, or rather, it does not digest at all.

FRENCH SUGAR.It had long been thought that tropical heat was not necessary to form sugar, and, about 1740, it was discovered that many plants of the temperate zone, and amongst others the beet, contained it.

Accordingly, it was ascertained that sugar exists in the whole vegetable kingdom; that it is to be found in the grape, chestnut, potato; but that, far above all, the beet contains it in a large proportion.

Thus the beet became an object of the most careful culture; and many experiments went to prove that in this respect the old world was independent of the new.

It was redder'n any beet, for I'd hit the nail square on the head, as it happened, and the ladies could scurcely keep from smilin'.

Beet, fan, kindle.

George got the colour of a beet, but he quit his foolin'.

The root vegetables should also be added in their season, raw carrot, turnip, beet, onion and leek, all finely grated.

The Turnip, Carrot, and Beet are biennials; that is, their growth is continued through two seasons.

A favorite object of their attack appeared to be a wrecked beet-sugar factory of which one side was blown away.

The German reply to the enemy's guns issued from the timbered verges of slopes at our right hand and our left; and these German shells, so far as we might judge, passed entirely over and beyond the smashed hamlets and the ruined sugar-beet factory and, curving downward, exploded out of our sight.

And that old beet-sugar factory which you saw this noon when we were at field headquartersit was crowded with badly wounded Englishmen.

Still to the garrison yonder it must have been an unhappy foretaste of what they might shortly expect, when they saw the forty- twos striking here in this field and saw what execution they did among the cabbage and the beet patches.

Barr's 21/ Collection of Vegetable Seeds contains a liberal assortment of the following useful Vegetables:Beans (Broad and French Beans), Beet, Borecole, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Capsicum, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Colewort, Corn Salad, Cress, Cucumber, Endive, Herbs, Leeks, Lettuce, Melon, Mustard, Onions, Parsley, Parsnips, Peas, Radish, Salsify, Savoy Cabbage, Scorzonera, Spinach, Tomato, Turnip, and Vegetable Marrow.

Their reason was clear and explicit: there would be a very serious shortage of labour in the beet-growing industry and in the harvest-fields, for which they had sent grain and artificial manures from Germany.

All appeals to the Prussian overlords, such as were made by Dr. Niepage, and the belated remonstrance of the Prussians themselves when they foresaw a dearth of labour for the husbandry of beet and cereals, fell on deaf ears, and I cannot see any reason for supposing that Armenian men exist any more in the Empire.

She went down to Skåne to work in the beet fields, and found a place at the Jordberga sugar refinery.

There it spread, with grain fields; with acres and acres of sugar beets, where the beet-pickers were at work; with low whitewashed farm- and outhouses; with numberless little white churches; with ugly, gray sugar refineries and small villages near the railway stations.

This is a rolling country of grain fields, orchards, masses of black-currant bushes, vegetable plots,it is a great sugar-beet country,and asparagus beds; for the Department of the Seine et

We rolled slowly across the beautiful undulating country of grain and beet fields.

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