"'I've done it; I've spilled the beans,' he says.

And the way she was cooking black beans when my uncle died.

Little did the fathers of the town anticipate this brilliant success, when they caused to be imported from farther in the country some straight poles with their tops cut off, which they called Sugar-Maples; and, as I remember, after they were set out, a neighboring merchant's clerk, by way of jest, planted beans about them.

Cut and boil the beans by the preceding recipe, and when tender, put them into a stewpan, and shake over the fire, to dry away the moisture from the beans.

For white stock, use the white haricot beans, rice, or macaroni in place of lentils or brown haricots.

You don't know beans from barley corn when it comes to the actions of anybody but yourself.

When quite dry and hot, add the butter, pepper, salt, and lemon-juice; keep moving the stewpan, without using a spoon, as that would break the beans; and when the butter is melted, and all is thoroughly hot, serve.

Thoroughly dry the beans; otherwise in roasting them a portion of the aroma escapes with the steam.

We gather now the southern-wood, The beans we reap; That for its fragrance, these for food.

After shelling the beans, put them into boiling water, salted in the above proportion, and let them boil rapidly until tender.

When very hot add the beans and then the sauce.

In the meantime, drain the beans, put into the stew-pan and stew until tender; add one tablespoon of flour and season with salt and pepper (meat gravy or soup stock will improve them).

I have seen the Nigger boiling beans over a blaze of sandal wood fragrant as an Eastern shop.

When served alone, young and tender broad beans or green peas are the usual accompaniments.

" A Somersetshire piece of agricultural lore fixes an earlier date, and bids the farmer to "sow or set beans in Candlemas waddle."

Pythagoras alone absented himself on that day, and fasted, holding in abomination the wicked custom of eating beans.

There was also an oil mill where they bought castor beans, and made castor oil on the north side of the Marais des Cygnes River one block west of Main Street.

I don't think the teacher should have asked ye, you could do all right with just the scholars, for any bit of nonsense would ha' done for them, but you will have to mind what you are sayin' before all the grown people!" Pearl soaked the beans for tomorrow's cooking, with an air of unconcern.

"New potatoes and string beans from the aft garden.

In the garden they laid out a strawberry bed of two thousand plants, helped to plant corn and beans, picked beans and other vegetables.

The chiefs could not find the poison beans.

She'll git a meal o' cold pork 'n' greens, cold string beans, gingerbread, 'n' custard pie on t' the table; then she'll stan' in the front door an' holler: 'Hurry up, Ossian!

But our Government, not being exactly provisional, prefers to go on giving the enemy beans.

He may be content, but whenever I saw him eating he had meat and rice, and often stewed fresh beans or fruitcertainly better food than most Turkish peasants or artisans are accustomed to at home.

The engine when working to 12 horses power drives one pair of flour stones, 4 feet 8 inches diameter, at 89 revolutions per minute and one pair of stones of the same diameter at 105 revolutions, grinding beans for cattle.