Muffins. Take 1 quart of warm milk, 1/2 cup of yeast, 1 teaspoonful of salt and flour enough to make a stiff batter; let stand to raise until light.

Let it stand to cool a little, then strain it through a piece of muslin into jars for use.

These successes were not gained, however, without hard fighting, the Roumanians making a desperate stand to prevent the Teuton invasion which threatened their capital.

But your wrath will 'stand to cool;' and you will hate to make a girl cry as you would hate to send a criminal to the electric-rack, the lightning-stroke, or the vivisection-table.

You shall not stand to this.

I dare stand to her choice 'twixt him and me. LACY.

"'And you stand to lose a sight o' money,' ses Sam Jones.

But I have found an art to cure this wound, For I with fancies pencill will so draw Your picture in the table of my hart, Your absence shall but like darke shadowes stand To sett you of and see you, Lady, better Then Love will lett me when I looke upon you.

And, in verity, whilst I stood dazed with a great joy that the Maid did live, I knew within me, concerning the fear that she was utter far off; and what peril might come anigh to her, before that I should stand to her side, to do battle for her life and well-being and mine own joy.

In short, as matters stand to-day, there is only one power which can replace the Turks as master of Constantinople, and that power is Russia.

221-25.] a breach of faithbut these having been issued, he thought we must stand to them.

If one of the Sages of the East could be called up and put on the stand to be questioned, he would say, substantially: "You are right in regard to your ether, and to prakriti being ether that has been dropped a great octave in vibration.

They are all derived from the relations in which finite beings stand to each other; and are therefore heterogeneous and, except by accommodation, devoid of meaning and purpose when applied to the working in and by which God makes his existence known to us, and (we may presume to say) especially exists for the soul in whom he thus works.

And does not the old Elizabethan "My dear dread" express the noblest voluntary relation in which two human souls can stand to each other?

By eight p.m. we were abreast of the South Cape, when the wind veered round to the North-West, and compelled us to stand to the southward.

I stand to clean up twenty thousand on the winter's work.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S reputation depends upon his work in Punch and his writing of plays, of which nearly seventy stand to his credit.

The following is an additional illustration of Mr. Macaulay's sketch, from Bishop Hall's Byting Satyres, 1599: "A gentle squire would gladly entertaine Into his house some Trencher-chapelaine; Some willing man, that might instruct his sons, And that would stand to good conditions.

If your news be true, I stand to lose fifty thousand; and shall be worth about as much as a Nabob spends yearly on his liveries.'

Those sensations stand to our total private minds in the same relation in which our private minds stand to the absolute mind.

Each could make it stand to reason that a man could not bear the heat and burden of harvest labor without beer.

There was an auction in the village to-day, as I passed through, and I stopped at a cake-stand to get a glass of water, as it was very hot.

With many of the celebrated characters of literature this interest has grown quite apart from interest in the plot, and they stand to-day as the embodiment of phases of human nature.

And all these (almost invincible labours) performed for your Mistris, to be in danger to forsake her, and to put on new allegeance to some French Lady, who is content to change language with your laughter, and after your whole year spent in Tennis and broken speech, to stand to the hazard of being laught at, at your return, and have tales made on you by the Chamber-maids.

[Footnote 208: Maeterlinck has made a charming picture of this habit of propinquity of the bee-stand to the human habitation.