Do we say good or well

good 127187 occurrences

Don't you know what a scelping is, my boy?a good whipping.

"He's all right," I heard the teller say as I went out, and understood that the bank-clerk had assured Trego that my character was good enough for him to be friendly with me on the passage to Hong-Kong.

We'll manage all right with the chinks on deck, if we can get some good helmsmen.

"Come right along with it, my good men, but leave it below.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"Your red-headed chap is a good man at the helm," said Riggs to me.

"Tell all you know, my good man," said Meeker despite the caution Riggs had given him about interfering.

" "You looked it over in good shape with a light," said Captain Riggs, evidently in doubt as to what he should do.

"Pry it open a bit more, Harris, and let me have a good, square look at it.

"That settles Mr. Matey, well and good.

We'll take the bridge and keep the old tub going until day and then pick out a good place to drop her when we've got what we want.

"Good God!" cried Riggs, and he backed toward the companion, holding up his hands in terror as he thought that I had captured Rajah.

I took a measure of pride in writing the story, too, for I knew there was a good chance that it might be my last, and I had visions of it being printed in the newspapers some day.

"That's the Zambales coast of Luzon, and they have been making a good easting all night; but we are running north nowsee that point ahead?

"They went in behind that point, and it's a good chance they'll be back if they see she's still afloat.

Now we had a good opportunity to stalk them and give them a surprise.

A little delay does 'em good; gives 'em a chance to think.

He was a great gunman and he was pretty good in scheming up ways of dodging the law and picking the best booty.

That was easy money for Piotto, but that was the beginnin' of the end for him; because while they was waitin', them two kids seen Joan and seen her good.

Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.

" "Yes, I suppose a good many people have killed time over this book.

Now as they relaxed, Anthony perceived first of all that most of the grimness passed away from the narrowed eyes and they lighted instead with good-humoured banter, though of a weary nature.

Chances may be good that he'll put up at some place near the old ranchhouse, but not right on the spot.

well 131560 occurrences

Clear the flead free from skin, and slice it into thin flakes; rub it into the flour, add the salt, and work the whole into a smooth paste, with the above proportion of water; fold the paste over two or three times, beat it well with the rolling-pin, roll it out, and it will be ready for use.

Blanch the almonds, and dry them thoroughly; put them into a mortar, and pound them well, wetting them gradually with the whites of 2 eggs.

Blanch and pound the almonds to a smooth paste with the water; mix these with the butter, which should be melted; beat up the eggs, grate the lemon-rind, and strain the juice; add these, with the cream, sugar, and wine, to the other ingredients, and stir them well together.

USES OF THE APPLE.It is well known that this fruit forms a very important article of food, in the form of pies and puddings, and furnishes several delicacies, such as sauces, marmalades, and jellies, and is much esteemed as a dessert fruit.

Beat these ingredients well together; then melt the butter, stir it to the other things, put a border of puff-paste round the dish, and bake for rather more than 1/2 hour.

The room should be dry, and well aired, but should not admit the sun.

Apple pudding is a very convenient dish to have when the dinner-hour is rather uncertain, as it does not spoil by being boiled an extra hour; care, however, must be taken to keep it well covered with the water all the time, and not to allow it to stop boiling.

Mode.Pare, core, and cut the apples into small pieces; put sufficient moist sugar to sweeten them into a basin; add the lemon-peel, which should be finely minced, and the cream; stir these ingredients well, whisk the eggs, and melt the butter; mix altogether, add the sliced apple, and let these be well stirred into the mixture.

Apples, when peeled, cored, and well cooked, are a most grateful food for the dyspeptic.

Beat the butter to a thick cream, strew in, by degrees, the sugar, and mix both these well together; then dredge the flour in gradually, add the currants, and moisten with the eggs, which should be well beaten.

They are well calculated to allay heat and thirst in persons afflicted with fevers.

The berries, arranged on bunches of nice curled parsley, make an exceedingly pretty garnish for supper-dishes, particularly for white meats, like boiled fowl à la Béchamel, the three colours, scarlet, green, and white, contrasting so well, and producing a very good effect.

Beat the pudding well, and put it into a buttered basin; tie it down tightly with a cloth, plunge it into boiling water, and boil for 1-1/4 hour; turn it out of the basin, and serve with sifted sugar.

Melt some butter to a paste, and with it, well grease the mould or basin in which the pudding is to be boiled, taking care that it is buttered in every part.

Here Raphael and Michel Angelo, in their youth, and Benvenuto Cellini passed many hours, copying and recopying what were then the first masterpieces of painting, the traces of which study are distinctly visible in their later productions; and here, too, according to Cellini, the famous punch in the nose befell Buonarotti, by which his well-known physiognomy acquired its marked peculiarity.

If you feel that I do well by you, do then the like by me.

Still the chiefs did not lose sight of one another, but beating off their inferior foes as well as they could, each refusing to loosen his hold, clung with mortal grasp to his antagonist.

"Well, good day, sir! I'xpect

well, git yer bunnet an' go out to the coop with Mr. Greene, 'n' show him the turkeys an' the chickens, 'n' tell what dre'ful luck we hev

"And she is such a very pretty girl," continued Peggy,"so intelligent and graceful; don't you think so, Sam?" "Aw, yes, well enough for a rustic," said I, languidly.

When the Rector refused to let poor Hans lie in the same ground with many of our townspeople who (God rest their souls!) had lived scarcely so honest a life as he had done, I was far from imagining that he was to be thrust into the tower, of all places in the world, and just when it was well known I had bargained for it.

Goethe's "Autobiography," in so far as it relates to his early days, is a bad book; and Wordsworth might well say of the "Wilhelm Meister," that "it was full of all manner of fornication, like the crossing of flies in the air."

The roof, though moveable through all its length As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed, And intercepting in their silent fall The frequent flakes, has kept a path for me.

But well thou playedst the housewife's part, And all thy threads with magic art Have wound themselves about this heart, My Mary!

The policy of Morocco, in former times, was so well managed, that it made all the Christian powers pay a certain tribute to that country, to insure themselves against the piracy of its cruisers.

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