Do we say roes or rose

roes 33 occurrences

Sure Weira's antelopes, or Tudah's roes Thro' yonder veils their sportive young survey!

Caviare, prepared from the roes of sturgeons, is the national ragout, which, like all other fish dishes, they season with aromatic herbs.

Clean the fish, take out the roes, and fill up with forcemeat, and sew up the slit.

Flour, and put them in a dish, heads and tails alternately, with the roes; and, between each layer, put some little pieces of butter, and pepper and salt.

Take, for 6 persons, the roes of 2 carp; [Footnote: An American writer says he has followed this recipe, substituting pike, shad, &c., in the place of carp, and can recommend all these also, with a quiet conscience.

Will, go fetch my bow: A berry[310] of fair roes I saw to-day Down by the groves, and there I'll take my stand, And shoot at oneGod send a lucky hand!

H. Then wend ye to the greenwood merrily, And let the light roes bootless from ye run.

Vitellius had one made of such prodigious size that he was obliged to build a furnace on purpose for it; and at a feast which he gave in honor of this dish, it was filled with the livers of the scarrus (fish), the brains of peacocks, the tongues of parrots, and the roes of lampreys caught in the Carpathian Sea.

They always git Ossian to sing 'Fly like a youthful hart or roe, over the hills where spices grow,' an' I tell him he's too old; youthful harts an' roes don't fly over the hills wearin' spectacles, I tell him, but he'll go right on singin' it till they have to carry him up on the platform in a wheeled chair!"

On the road they met with horrid barren mountains and vallies, and with a great number of animals like roes, besides abundance of fowls, such as hasel-hens, and heath-cocks, which were as white as snow, and pheasants the size of a goose.

The shape of these, and the varied colour of their skins, is much like roes, but in size they surpass them a little and are destitute of horns, and have legs without joints and ligatures; nor do they lie down for the purpose of rest, nor, if they have been thrown down by any accident, can they raise or lift themselves up.

I'm offen he-roes, too.

Large stores of fish are dried and smoked, and the roes, prepared like caviare, form their winter bread.

She was the very petted child of her father; and when Mr. Fletcher saw her, she was running about the palace like a wild, playful creatureI may say, our bonny little roes of the Highland hills, or maybe another creature she used to speak about, I think they call it gazelle, with such wonderful eyes for shining, that you cannot look into them no more you could at the sun.

I collected in a bag a few delicacies from the under-regions of this house, Lyons sausages, salami, mortadel, apples, roes, raisins, artichokes, biscuits, a few wines, a ham, bottled fruit, pickles, coffee, and so on, with a gold plate, tin-opener, cork-screw, fork, &c., and dragged them all the long way back to the engine before I could eat.

They are fond of caviar, made of roes of fish, and scarcely less disgusting than huigal.

In the first row those killed by the king himself were ranged; and he numbered forty-six roe-bucks, and one marcassin (young wild boar;) the spoil of the dauphin was thirty-eight roe-bucks, being eight less than his royal father, while the rest of the company destroyed among them fifty-four, making a grand total of 138 roes, and one wild boar.

Margaret V. D. Bevans, Barbara V. D. Klaw & Anne V. D. Roes (C); 12Feb75; R597867.

Margaret V. D. Bevans, Barbara V. D. Klaw & Anne V. D. Roes (C); 12Feb75; R597867.

* * Scalloped Fish Roe Boil three large roes in water with, a very little vinegar for ten minutes.

They have no lions, bears, deer, swine, roes, or goats; neither have they any horses, mules, asses, or dogs; sheep likewise and cows are not to be found among them.

The roes of fish or the livers are particularly nice prepared in this way.

SCALLOPED FISH ROE Boil three large roes in water with a little vinegar for ten minutes.

The reason is, that the young count over there is an ardent hunter and has enlarged his stock of game, so that his stags and roes come out of the forest like sheep and completely ruin the product of my toil and sweat.

I spend a great deal of time up therenot always, to be sure, in sentimental contemplation of nature; it is my usual evening watchpost, from which I shoot the stags and roes out of the Justice's corn.

rose 21776 occurrences

At this Patrick rose up with his followers and he blessed the people of the Deisi and not them alone, but their woods and water and land.

Then Declan rose up with his foot healed and joined in praising God.

And at his words they rose up immediately and spoke to all.

The side banks of water rose high because there was no passage up or down, so that the ridges were very elevated on both the sea and stream sides.

The dwelling was wedged like a bird-box between two fragments of rock, and behind it the land rose rocky, high, and steep, so as to form a natural wall.

Thence she could see far off, not only down the dim, sombre abyss, but out to the blue Mediterranean beyond, now calmly lying in swathing-bands of purple, gold, and orange, while the smoky cloud that overhung Vesuvius became silver and rose in the evening light.

Nor is it to be wondered at, if this same duke's son, after a week or two, did not know whether he was on his head or his heels, or whether the sun rose in the east or the south, or where he stood, or whither he was going.

Of course, the rose of love, having gone through all its stages of bud and blossom into full flower, must next begin to drop its leaves.

She knew the first gun had been fired when Jarvis rose to speak.

A tall, pleasant-faced young man rose and tried to cover his surprise.

"Yes, I think he is," she admitted, as she rose.

He rose mechanically, and followed the boy into a very large and ornate office.

" Jarvis rose, furious.

Bambi rose to meet the foe, who never glanced at her.

Jarvis rose.

She lifted her veil and rose slowly from her seat, as if to rearrange her dress.

Across the river rose the steep embankments that shut in Buffalo Prairie, and still beyond that the mountains, thick with timber rising billow on billow until trees looked like twigs, with gray rock and glistening snow shouldering the clouds above the last purple line.

" Aldous rose to his feet slowly.

He rose, dropped his birds, and stared.

Her lips were colourless, and her bosom rose and fell swiftly.

A rose-flush of colour spread over her cheeks.

He rose to his feet, and stood before her.

Like one in a dream John Aldous rose from his chair and went to her.

Rose Wilder Lane (A); 19Sep55; R156401.

Mrs. Weston rose.

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