Take from 12 to 16 lbs., after it has been in salt about 10 days; just wash off the salt, skewer it up in a nice round-looking form, and bind it with tape to keep the skewers in their places.

Remove the tape and skewers, which should be replaced by a silver one; pour over a little of the pot-liquor, and garnish with carrots.

Take them out, remove the skewers, thicken the gravy with butter and flour, and flavour with any store sauce that may be preferred.

Bone and roll the meat round, secure it with wooden skewers, and, if necessary, bind it round with a piece of tape.

Remove the skewers, put in a plated or silver one, and send the joint to table with gravy in the dish, and garnish with tufts of horseradish.

Place the pieces of orange on small skewers, dip them into the hot sugar, and arrange them in layers round a plain mould, which should be well oiled with the purest salad-oil.

If I do not tan thy hide this day as ne'er I tanned a calf's hide in all my life before, split my staff into skewers for lamb's flesh and call me no more brave man!

He came upon a hired hand splitting some sawed hickory slabs to whittle down into skewers.

The surrounding walls were as black as the opening by which we had entered the place, and we stood with quick-beating hearts staring out across the place through which the bars of moonlight appeared like silver skewers.

One of these skewers fell upon a ledge of stone some few yards in front of the spot where we were standing, and Holman stepped toward it.

The darkness of the Cavern of Skulls had been relieved by the silver skewers of moonlight, but in the night that rolled around us there was not a single gleam of light.

After that they impaled them on sharp skewers run perpendicularly the whole length of the body.

Yet even should the outcome prove contrary to our hope,and I will not shrink from mentioning even this contingency,it is better for us to fall fighting bravely than to be captured and impaled, to see our own entrails cut out, to be spitted on red hot skewers, to perish dissolved in boiling water, when we have fallen into the power of creatures that are very beasts, savage, lawless, godless.

A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in skewers lately observed to him that his nephew (an idle lad) could only assist him in making them;he could rough hew them, but I was obliged to shape their ends!

To shape the ends of wool-skewers, i.e., to point them, requires a degree of skill; any one can rough-hew them.

"I have frequently seen packages of wool pinn'd up with skewers.

Lucky wool-man, butcher, and dealer in skewers!

Fortunate Farmer, to have heard the story! and most sagacious Steevens, to have penetrated its hidden meaning, recollecting felicitously that you had seen packages of wool pinn'd up with skewers!

Slits are cut in the skin of their breast, ropes passed through and secured by wooden skewers, and then the men swing and surge until the skin gives way and tears out.

" Neckam mentions the roasting-spit, elsewhere called the roasting-iron; but I fail to detect skewers, though they can hardly have been wanting.

HE'S EATING THE SKEWERS!

[105] Kabab is meat roasted or fried with spices; sometimes in small pieces, sometimes minced, sometimes on skewers, but never in joints as with us, though they make kababs of a whole lamb or kid.

The human skeleton was also laid under contribution for the material of skewers, needles and flutes.

They did not screen the face from sun and wind, and no ladies could keep them on their heads without the help of long pins like skewers.

Against the framework thus formed the sails are stuck up on end side by side to the number of three or four, occasionally even five, and kept in their places by long sticks placed transversely, their ends as well as those of the mast being sharpened to serve as skewers which in the first instance secure the sails.