Thus the struggle between the powers of light and darkness for the soul of Afiza continued, until at length the evil spirit deemed it wise to depart; and on the twenty-first day, when it was racking Afiza for the last time, it demanded as the final price of its departure the liver of a black-goat.

One of the curious results of what is called wild life, is a blessed release from many of the timidities that assail the easy liver in the centres of civilisation.

Season a calf's liver with salt and pepper; put a few slices of bacon in a saucepan; let get very hot.

So, make yourselves at home, I beg you both, while I go down and cook the liver for our dinner.

I had to throttle him to save my liver from his knife.

The blood of the vein which goes from the liver to the right side of the heart was then found to contain a higher percentage of sugar than is present in the arteries.

The liver and gizzard should be placed in the wings, the liver on one side and the gizzard on the other.

The pear is a hardy tree, and a longer liver than the apple: it has been known to exist for centuries.

There were adulterers, secret loose-livers among them.

In brief, blood is brought to the liver and distributed through its substance by two distinct channels,the portal vein and the hepatic artery, but it leaves the liver by one distinct channel,the hepatic vein.

Cut a sheep's liver into pieces and stew with the sheep's head in 4 quarts of water.

'I'd cut the livers out of the likes of them.' 'Now will you mind what you're sayin', and the priest listenin' to you?' 'Your reverence, will the child be always a Protestant?

Run a skewer through the pinion and thigh into the body to the pinion and thigh on the other side, and press the legs as much as possible between the breast and the side bones, and put the liver under one pinion and the gizzard under the other.

They ate a little fish and thrust the liver through the opening in the floor, the better to escape its nauseating odor.

Then, at the end of his life, being filled with fear and remorse (as must always happen with evil livers at the last), he sent for Rector Kindersley of Dorchester to confess him, though a Protestant, and wished to make amends by leaving that treasure so ill-gotten from King Charles (which was all that he had to leave) for the repair and support of the almshouses.

They were hanging in the buttery, with their hearts and livers inside them; mother does not believe in gizzards.

She also gave us permission to cook our pieces of liver over her bed of live coals.