Then my Beltane put his hand within his pouch and taking thence a gold piece held it out upon his palm; said he: "Friar, I will buy the half of thy pasty of thee!"

Faces, pasty as her own, lined up alongside, greedy of the morsel about to fall.

There is some explanation for the belief that Schubert did not dare to love or declare his love, and some reason to believe that his reticence was wise and may have saved him worse pangs, in the fact that he was only one inch more than five feet high, and yet fat and awkward; stoop-shouldered, wild-haired, small-nosed, big-spectacled, thick-lipped, and of a complexion which has been called pasty to the point of tallowness.

Ah, not that!" Job laid down knife and fork with their points resting on the rim of his plate, and, with a lump of pasty in one cheek, looked at his sister.

So saying, my Beltane dropped the pasty into the deeper waters of the brook and, thereafter, took up his staff.

They don't even grow beards like Christians; they don't go to the public baths, and don't make pasties on holidays.

"Sir Friar," said he, "behold to-day is thy soul purged of a pasty against the day of judgment!"

I eat, for then a dry crust is as good to me as a venison pasty with suet and raisins is to stout King Harry.

In his idyl of "Audley Court" he gives a most appetizing description of a pasty at a pic-nic: "There, on a slope of orchard, Francis laid A damask napkin wrought with horse and hound; Brought out a dusky loaf that smelt of home, And, half cut down, a pasty costly made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret, lay Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

The which mindeth me I grow an hungered, yet will I forego appetite and yield thee this fair pasty for but two of thy gold pieces.