Do me the favour to leave off the business which you may be at present upon, and go immediately to the kitchens of Trinity and Caius, and make my most respectful compliments to Mr. Richard Hopkins, and assure him that his brawn is most excellent, and that I am moreover obliged to him for his innuendo about salt water and bran, which I shall not fail to improve.

"Well, she'll need suthin' to keep her strength up all the more now she ain't got nuthin' to support her;" and, gathering peas and pods into her apron with a mighty sweep of her arm, she marched into her kitchen in a fever of sympathetic indignation and evolved a dinner which was a masterpiece of culinary skill.

She went into the kitchen with Mavity Bence, and the two women worked there at the dishes, and washing out the towels, till after nine o'clock, Johnnie's anxiety and distress mounting with every minute of delay.

Wesley stole to the end of the hall and listened, then, hearing the busy clamor of the servants moving from the kitchen to the dining-room, he retraced his steps to the stairs, bounded lightly up and in three minutes reappeared, and, keeping his eyes on the half-closed doors, slipped softly to Pizarro.

She had caught herself dreading the moment when they must leave the more or less cheerful kitchen for the upper floor of the house.

All the Battery had discovered the polenta at the porter's lodge and our men crowded the kitchen at all hours of the day.

The owner was absent on an errand, and his daughter, who had been clumping about the kitchen on my arrival, was uninstructed in the price marks.

"You are wise, Sing Pete," Carolyn June laughed as she left the kitchen by the back door and started toward the corral where the Gold Dust maverick was restlessly pacing about.

The two big rooms donated by the railway for the work were charming with their blue and white checked curtains, dividing kitchen from restaurant and rest room from reading room.

I think he regarded that little hell's kitchen as merely a feed-spout for his vast enterprise.

Item, That no man come to the kitchen without reasonable cause, on paine of 1d.

Then, on returning to the kitchen after a moment's absence, Clotilde and Pascal were stupefied to see Martine sitting at her table, picking some sorrel for the breakfast.

She left the house-door open for his entrance, and passed out again through the kitchen into the space behind, which was partly an uninclosed yard, and partly rocky common.

[Illustration: Butler (the family having come down to the kitchen during an air-raid).

As they reached the great kitchen behind the house and connected with it by a trellised pavilion, only an occasional light could be seen in the house.

The dishes prepared by the cooks were placed, by the help of the esquires, on dressers in the kitchen until the moment of serving.

Now, it was close on the dinner-hour, and she stood in her kitchen beside a pot of stew that simmered over the wreck-wood fire.

" Wang-sun Kiá asked him once, "What says the proverb, 'Better to court favor in the kitchen than in the drawing-room'?"

After many experiments we tried the effect of bringing the cream into the kitchen over night, and see if warmth would make any difference.

A crowd of soldiers from our train joined a group cooking supper in the moonlight at one of the soup kitchens along the tracks.

418; kitchen under her care, ii. 215, n. 4; house, lodged in, iii. 222, 380, n. 3; leaves it, iv. 233, 255, n. 1; not complaining of the world, iv.

Her hands and arms were red and chapped, but her face had bloomed perfect in the kitchen like a flower in a marl-pit.

In an adjoining room Evadne could see a bed with its gay patchwork quilt of Dyce's making, and in the little kitchen beyond she heard her singing as she trod to and fro.

Now the Cook, in the kitchen across the courtyard, heard the loud talking between Little John and the Steward, and also the blow that Little John struck the other, so he came running across the court and up the stairway to where the Steward's pantry was, bearing in his hands the spit with the roast still upon it.

The waiter said it was unavoidablethere had been a fight in the kitchen between two lobsters.