I've strained and made my spirits clear, The fatted lambs I've killed.

Eight dishes loaded stand with grain; There's store of fatted meat.

THE FATTED CALF XXI.

46, v. 21, "Also her hired men are in the midst of her, like fatted bullocks, for they are also turned back and are fled away together; they did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation."

And so the Prodigal came home, and the fatted calf was killed for him, and he was made as happy as two simple women could make him.

But I fatted him up in the barn, and he got so's he'd follow me around.

With a desire to drive away obtrusive thoughts, the captain had been much in his fields, and he was bethinking himself of making a large contribution to the good cause, in the way of fatted porkers, of which he had an unusual number, that he thought might yet be driven through the forest to Fort Stanwix, before the season closed.

We can get some idea of the expenses of his household, in the fact that it daily consumed sixty measures of flour and meal and thirty oxen and one hundred sheep, besides venison, game, and fatted fowls.

pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob^. inaugurate, install, chair. rejoice &c 838; kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox.

entertain; give a party &c n.; be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception &c n.. to kill the fatted calf.

There's such a lot to be done now he has really come; and, Uncle Edward, may they kill one of the cows in the farm that are being fatted up?

What it has bred, along with misery and pain and fatted burying grounds, is a vast and loathsome stench and a universe of flies.

A whole drove of fatted calves were metaphorically killed, and a banquet appeared with speed.

The colonel killed the fatted calf for Grandison, and for two or three weeks the returned wanderer's life was a slave's dream of pleasure.

"And let us kill the fatted calf, And all rejoice around; My son, though dead, now lives again, Though lost, he now is found.

"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.

Patteson skipped across the garden, crying, "Let a fatted calf be killed, for this my brother who was dead is alive again!" How shall we contract the charges of Sir Thomas More?

Every animal bred on the estate is fatted, but by no means with the grain and roots grown upon it.

Now, it would occasion an American farmer some wonderment to be told that this great herd of cattle is fed and fatted almost entirely for the manure they make.

He's coming to munch with us tomorrow evening, by the way, so you might sport the tablecloth for once, William old dear, and tell the cook to put it across Og, the fatted capon, and generally strive to live down your reputation as the worst Mess President the world has ever seen.

No one can kill the fatted calf for Mephistopheles.

I may return as a stowaway, but anyhow expect me, and prepare the fatted outlet.

I'll bet he's a dandy from 'way backstopping at your housebridal chamberthat's rightyou want to kill the fatted calf for them fellerssay" But further comments were cut short as I came out, jumped in, and we drove back to a good supper by candle-light.

"Cos he had ter kill the fatted calf, an' de son wasn't wort' it.

"You might as well say fatted dormice and snails," said Frank.