Cut tough ends from the asparagus; scrape and boil in salted water until tender.

Remove the core and scrape out the inside of the apples.

Now if you, readerfor I assume you to be one of the gathering audiencewere of the kind careful on scrubbing days to scrape your feet upon the iron outside and to cross the kitchen on the unwashed parts, then it is likely that you stood in the good graces of the cook.

Every time I got in a scrape he bought me out of it, filled up the house with rough talk, and let it go at that.

There was a moving about within, the scrape of a match, and finally the door opening slightly, a figure peering out.

" "Has Dan been caught in any scrape?

He heard the rhythmic squeak of the halliards through the sheaves, and the scrape of the gaff going up.

Of this foul sacrilege beyond, report: For Rome still flays and sells Him at the court, Where paths are closed, to virtue's fair increase, Now were fit time for me to scrape a treasure, Seeing that work and gain are gone; while he Who wears the robe, is my Medusa still.

'The rascal shall not escape me!' This was all very well, but it seemed to me, as I sat on a great round cheese eating my supper, that this youngster was thinking rather too much of his own family affairs and too little of the fine scrape into which he had got me.

Maggie, as a childalthough in her father's opinion "too clever for a gell"is foolish, vain, self-willed, and always in some silly scrape or other; and when grown up, her behaviour is such, even before the climax of the affair with Stephen Guest, that the dislike of the St. Ogg's ladies for her might have been very sufficiently accounted for even if they had not had reason to envy her superior beauty.

Have to go work scrape about and find something else to eat.

Far spent the man was when they found him, for he had lain there three nights and two days with a bullet-smashed thigh and the scrape across his skull that had led the rest of his night patrol to count him dead and so abandon him.

It was true, and had reference to a sight scrape of a bullet across the tip of the nose of a Towers private, and the ribald jests and laughter thereat.

she cried, holding out the bracelet in her left hand and shewing a scrape which had drawn blood on her right wrist.

Now were fit time for me to scrape a treasure, Seeing that work and gain are gone; while he Who wears the robe, is my Medusa still.

There are two children, Sylvia, the younger, and a son, Carhart, a fine-looking blond fellow when I knew him, but who got into some bad scrape the year after he left college,a gambling debt, I think, that his father repudiated, and sent him to try ranch life in the West.

Of course, she was well aware that Mark had never forgotten, even over all these years, the dreadful scrape into which she had got herself by going to those gambling parties in the pleasant, quiet, Jermyn Street flat where she and Varick had first become acquainted.

The only person among them capable of getting into any real scrape was poor little Bubbles.

There came a little pause, and then Blanche exclaimed: "I'm sorry, very sorry, if he's got into a new scrape, Mark; and I'm surprised too.

Well;I have got just a few hundreds; what I could scrape together to bring me and a few others as might be wanted over to England.

Many persons hold that a torpedo boat is likely to be more useful in terrifying an enemy than in doing him real harm, and we can safely say that the captain of an ironclad who saw half a dozen of these vessels bearing down on him, and did not wish himself well out of a scrape, has more nerve than most men.

Perhaps he had been, like Bishop Sumner, "bear-leader" to a great man's son, and had won the gratitude of a powerful patron by extricating young hopeful from a matrimonial scrape.

Shortly the bottom began to scrape on invisible obstacles.

"That I shall know when next I hear his voiceand, if it be he whom I think, thou shalt scrape the flesh from the bones of his face with thy knife and put his eyeballs in his mouth.

Why they do say, that if a poor body contrives to be smart enough to scrape together a few dollars, that your King George always comes down upon 'em, and takes it all away.