19 examples of podrida in sentences

In the Olla Podrida, a collection of Essays published at Oxford, there is an admirable paper upon the character of Johnson, written by the Reverend Dr. Home, the last excellent Bishop of Norwich.

The Olla Podrida was published in weekly numbers in 1787 8.

It is a mass of earnest "abysmal nonsense," an olla-podrida of theological whimsicalities, a saintly jumble of pious staff made upif we may borrow an ideaof Hebraism, Persian Dualism, Brahminism, Buddhistic apotheosis, heterodox and orthodox Christianity, Mohammedanism, Drusism, Freemasonry, Methodism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, and Spirit- rapping.

Your grandfather's Spanish, your grandmother's French, and your father's English, all mixed up in an olla podrida.

We have nobody to talk olla podrida to now.

She missed what she called the olla-podrida phrases to which she had always been accustomed; and in her desire to behave with propriety, there was an unwonted sense of constraint.

We always had so many flowery names mixed up with our olla-podrida talk.

WELLS COLLEGE Cardinal, The. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Wesleyan Argus, The. Wesleyan Literary Monthly, The. Olla Podrida, The. Wesleyan Verse, 16mo, 1894.

Olla Podrida.

Shakspeare, in his "Midsummer-Night's Dream," has mingled the mythologies of Hellas and Scandinavia, of the North and the South, making of them a sort of mythic olla podrida.

[Footnote 1: Eopuco I take to be from the verb puch or puk, to melt, to dissolve, to shell corn from the cob, to spoil; hence puk, spoiled, rotten, podrida, and possibly ppuch, to flog, to beat.

Olla Podrida.

I was very sorry time did not admit of my witnessing one of the new president's levees, as I much wished to see the olla podrida of attendants.

Olla Podrida.

The haggis, a kind of pudding, made of the offals or interior of a sheep, and boiled in the integument of its stomach; this dish, both in odour and flavour, is usually excessively offensive to the stranger; the singed sheep's head, water-souchie, Scotch soup, (an olla podrida of meats and vegetables,) chicken-broth and sowens.

Olla Podrida, iv. 426, n. 3. OMAI, iii. 8. OMBERSLEY, v. 455.

299; mentioned, ii. 438; Methodists, rise of the, i. 58, n. 3, 68, n. 1; expulsion of six, ii. 187; Murray, William (Earl of Mansfield), matriculates, ii. 194, n. 3; New Inn Hall, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 46; Johnson walks in the Principal's garden, ii. 268, n. 2; Olla Podrida, iv.

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

Had Don Quixote not forsaken the exercise of the chase and early rising, if he had not taken to eating chestnuts at night, cold spiced meat, together with onions and 'ollas podridas', then proceeding to read exciting, unnatural tales of love and war, he would not have gone mad.

19 examples of  podrida  in sentences