The ransom agreed on was a quantity of cheeses, dried fish, and onions, together with four stags, each having three feet, two behind and one before.

Teals, wigeons, snipes, barn-door fowl, ducks, geeseyour tame villatic thingsWelsh mutton, collars of brawn, sturgeon, fresh or pickled, your potted char, Swiss cheeses, French pies, early grapes, muscadines, I impart as freely unto my friends as to myself.

While she prepared cheeses of their milk, she loved to see them browse on the maidenhair which grew upon the steep sides of the rock, and hung suspended upon one of its cornices, as on a pedestal.

The Neapolitan, whose name was Pippo; one of the indigent scholars, for a century since learning was rather the auxiliary than the foe of superstition, and a certain Nicklaus Wagner, a fat Bernese, who was the owner of most of the cheeses in the bark, were the chosen of the multitude on this occasion.

Thou hast a large stake in the Winkelried, and art at this moment thinking what punishment is good enough for an impudent soothsayer who dares dive so unceremoniously into the secrets of so warm a citizen, while all around thee wish thy cheeses had never left the dairy, to the discomfort of our limbs and to the great detriment of the bark's speed.

"The cheeses are well enough where they find themselves; if thou dislikest their company thou hast the alternative of the water.

Thou hast that which would be acceptable to me, and I have that which no owner of cheeses would refuse, did he know the means by which it might be come at honestly.

Thou flatterest thyself this is the fattest cargo of cheeses that will cross the Swiss waters this season, on their way to an Italian market?

I would that I had never seen thee or thy cheeses, or that thou wouldst relieve me of thy presence, and go after them into the lake.

Goldenhorns was yielding well, the goats had dropped their kids and were yielding well; Inger had a row of red and white cheeses already, stored away to get ripe.

It was her plan to save up cheeses till there were enough to buy a loom.

Inger churned and made cheeses; there was no serious danger; folk that had their wits about them and could work need not die for the sake of one bad year.

He drove down with Inger's goats' milk cheeses, and brought back woollen thread, a loom, shuttles and beam and all; brought back flour and provisions, more planks, and boards and nails; one day he brought home a lamp.

And all the cheeses that'd go to your people instead of mine...." "Oh, you wicked creature to think of such a thing!"

" Isak had the ten Daler for that yearit was the money he had got for his loads of wood, and for the cheeses Inger had laid by.

"Those cheeses, Eleseus," went on Isak again, "wasn't it ten you counted on the shelf this morning?" "Ay," said Eleseus.

" "What good Os-Anders ...?" "Ay, since I'm to give him cheeses in return.

He takes a couple of cheeses with him, for Fru Geissler. Half-way down to the village a new settler has appeared.

He got through his business with the shoemaker, and, Fru Geissler having left the place, he sold his cheeses to the man at the store.

Isak had himself taught the boys their A B C on Sundays, but 'twas not for him, not for this born tiller of the soil, to give them any manner of higher education; the Catechism and Bible history lay quietly on the shelf with the cheeses.

Oline took Inger aside, led her out into the larder where she knew all the cheeses were stored, and closed the door.

'It's like tasting a lot of cheeses, till you get the one that suits you,' said Jane.

Cheeses went from Marlow's store loft, and never a pig trough was safe from him.

The cheeses for which Cheddar is also famous are not the exclusive product of the locality but are extensively made throughout Somerset.

Leicester cattle and sheep are noted, and its Stilton cheeses.