Make round the dish, a border of croutons, or pieces of toasted bread; arrange the eels in a pyramid in the centre, and pour over the sauce.

[G-8] Badcock, in using the term 'index-scholar,' was referring no doubt to Pope's lines: 'How Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.' Dunciad, i. 279.

He knew very well in which direction it was best to go; and, half way to the landing, he met Dick coming up the road with a basket of eels on his arm.

At La Souleiade the table was set; Martine had an eel from the Viorne, a sauted rabbit, and a leg of mutton.

Mode.Choose small eels for boiling; put them in a stewpan with the parsley, and just sufficient water to cover them; simmer till tender.

He was also, strange as it may seem, shy; though indeed he had grown used to it, as a man gets used to a hollow tooth or an eel to skinning.

He is gone to seek a hare in a hen's nest, a needle in a bottle of hay, which is as seldom seen as a black swan: he is gone to seek my young mistress; and I think she is better lost than found, for whosoever hath her, hath but a wet eel by the tail.

I have stripped him of the wench, as a cook would strip an eel out of her skin, or a pudding out of the case thereof.

And then I thought of how I caught an eel in the Corriemuir burn and chivied her about with it, until she ran screaming under my mother's apron half mad with fright, and my father gave me one on the ear-hole with the porridge stick which knocked me and my eel under the kitchen dresser.

He threaded the throng by which it was crowded, with a dexterity that resembled the windings of an eel among the weeds of the Lagunes.

Fishing one day at Pain's Hill, near Cobham, in Surrey, I hooked an eel amongst some weeds, but before I could land him, he had so twisted a new strong double wire, to which the hook was fixed, that he broke it and made his escape.

" "True, eccellenza, and we are forbidden to cast our nets there, on pain of sleeping with the eels at its bottom.

Wash, and cut up the eels into pieces 3 inches long; put them in the stewpan, and simmer for 1/2 hour.

The guards could hardly believe their eyes when they saw this lithe girl slipping like an eel through their defense and caging the ball with a sure hand every time.

" "Here I be, sir, says the beater, with my 'eels above my 'ed.