Do we say stuffing or dressing

stuffing 314 occurrences

One does not make an ill-fed child strong by stuffing five pounds of oatmeal down its throat!

Diggory and Mugford fell upon his neck, and were loud in their declarations that in another round their champion would have "knocked the stuffing out" of his opponent.

What is the best material for stuffing ballot-boxes with? Answer.

Next try this farce or stuffing in boiling-hot water, to ascertain its consistency: if it is too thin, add the yolk of an egg.

Mrs. Heron subscribed to a library, and she and Isabel read the latest six-shilling novels with avidity, stuffing them under the sofa cushion at the sound of Mr. Heron's approaching footsteps.

After their first lesson it would have been easy enough for the cubs to have killed all they wanted and to grow fat and lazy as the bears, which were now stuffing themselves before going off to sleep for the winter; but the old mother wolf held them firmly in check, for with plenty of small game everywhere, all wolves are minded to go quietly about their own business and let the caribou follow their own ways.

By stuffing these skins compactly, within ropes so placed as to keep all snug, a very material defence against the entrance of cold was interposed.

They seem to take the stuffing right out of you.

I decided to knock the stuffing out of him without further preamble.

But he was nothing to a white fellow, a lumberer, who was continually stuffing himself with the Indians' moose-meat, and was the butt of his companions accordingly.

trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem &c (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c 791; ballot-box stuffing [U.S.], barney

The room was an old and rather frowsy one, with shabby leather furniture from which the stuffing protruded, panelled walls, a carpet almost threadbare, and a formidable array of calf-bound volumes in the cases lining one wall.

"Take care of your stuffing!"

This stuff, which could be had for nothing, was excellent for rifle-stoppers and for the stuffing of birds, so I took a great quantity of it with me.

" Two small boys were playing at conkers, two small boys with very earnest faces and grubby clothes which never figured in KATE GREENAWAY'S pictures, wasting precious material which five-and-thirty other scholars were diligently collecting and stuffing into sacks.

He ate very heartily, as was his custom; and, moreover, persisted in stuffing the children (as old gentlemen will do sometimes) until their mother was compelled to interfere to prevent their having a bilious attack in consequence.

Looking at the docks out of the hotel window nearly sends me to bed; there's something about a ship that takes the stuffing out of me completely.

This is another result of the economic changes caused by the Hannibalic war, and is curiously illustrated by the speech of the cook of a great household in the Pseudolus of Plautus, who prides himself on not being as other cooks are, who make the guests into beasts of the field, stuffing them with all kinds of food which cattle eat, and even with things which cattle would refuse!

"You were safe on Easter Island, and ill from stuffing yourself with fresh mutton," I prompted, "And now what?" Steve spat over the rail.

Boiled when green, the papaya reminds one of vegetable marrow; and cooked when ripe, it makes a pie stuffing not to be despised.

On the principle that it is better to make sure of the rabbit before arranging about the stuffing.

Carries eight o' the biggest and best torpedoes, any one o' which is warranted to knock the stuffing out o' the "Goeben" or any other o' Weeping Willy's super-skulkers.' 'Where are we now?' inquired Ken with interest. 'Couldn't say precisely.

" "I've changed my mind," she said inconsequently, stuffing the fabric in her gauntlet.

How lucky I hadn't seen him there!" They walked along for some moments in silence, Markham slowly stuffing tobacco into his pipe, his gaze upon the ground.

Our readers will remember how fully we have exposed the unscrupulous tricks of the old fox Plausaby, the contemptible land-shark who runs Metropolisville, and who now has temporary possession of the county-seat by means of a series of gigantic frauds, and of wholesale bribery and corruption and nefarious ballot-box stuffing.

dressing 2825 occurrences

The Spanish Moorish immigrants introduced the mode of dressing goat and sheep-skins, at first known by the name of Cordovan from Cordova; but, since the Moorish forced immigration, they have acquired the celebrated name of Morocco.

Sister's hands were much more gentle than mine, and Shelley always associated me with pain, little knowing that, if a dressing is to be well and properly done, it is always inseparable from a certain amount of suffering.

he asked of the cowboys dressing sleepily inside the bunk-house.

"Well, she's there," Skinny retorted, "somebody's corraled herthat's certain!" Hurriedly dressing, the cowboys crowded out of the bunk-house and down to the circular corral.

Ophelia was in her own room dressing to go to town.

As soon as I was able, I scuttled out of my ball dress and into a dressing gown.

Marianne and I were in my dressing-room before seven.

I insisted on dressing at once, and took as long as I could in the process of making up; still, when I was ready there was more than half an hour to spare before the first act.

In her absence she had caught the trick of dressing her hair so that it looked even more abundantbut she had not dared to try it so until to-night, when Dwight was gone.

[430] Four years later, three years after Goldsmith's death, Johnson 'observed in Lord Scarsdale's dressing-room Goldsmith's Animated Nature; and said, "Here's our friend.

Catching sight of the gold fittings, he snatched up the dressing-case, and would have wrenched off the precious metal.

Charles Grandet sent a cheque for 8,000 francs, asked for the return of his dressing-case, and casually mentioned that he was going to make a brilliant marriage with Mlle.

They'd have wasted it by dressing him up in it, if it hadn't been for me.

After an hour you will wake up, put on a dressing gown and slippers, and proceed to Lady Randolph West's boudoir, taking care not to be observed.

He was evidently dressing at full speed.

In support of the main point there was a short note to Miss Bamberger in Van Torp's handwriting, which had afterwards been found on her dressing-table.

and she was at home in her dressing-room, and there was no more effort to be made till the next day.

But even alone, she did not behave or look very differently; she twisted up her thick brown hair herself, as methodically as ever, and laid out the black velvet gown on the lounge after shaking it out, so that it should be creased as little as possible; but when she was ready to go to bed she put on a dressing-gown and sat down at her table to write to Rufus Van Torp.

A man whose eyes suggested dark almonds need not cover himself with jewellery and adorn himself in naming colours, Margaret thought; and she resented his way of dressing, much more than ever before.

The three men were let out in due time, however, and as no trace of a warrant could be discovered at that hour, Logotheti and Griggs being already sound asleep, and as Lord Creedmore, in his dressing-gown and slippers, gave them a written statement to the effect that Mr. Van Torp was no longer at Craythew, they had no choice but to return to town, rather the worse for wear.

As the latter employment engaged the great body of the Israelites, the Apostle amplifies his illustration under that head by much detailand enumerates the five great departments of agricultural labor among the Jewsvine-dressing, plowing, sowing, reaping and threshing, as the representatives of universal labor.

He had, indeed, suggested baiting the dressing-table with the farmer's watch, an idea which Mr. Negget had promptly vetoed.

CUCUMBERS IN OIL One hundred medium-sized cucumbers, sliced thin lengthwise, add one pint salt, let stand overnight, drain thoroughly in morning, add two pints of sliced onions, then add dressing, consisting of four tablespoons of black mustard seed, four of white mustard seed, two of celery seed, one-half pint of best olive oil, one-half pint of white vinegar.

Let stand twenty-four hours; bring to a boil in same solution, drain and make the dressing.

They are then ready for dressing.

Do we say   stuffing   or  dressing