Handy Solomon continually wetted his lips, like an animal licking its chops.

" "Who are you calling the Whistler?" asked the cabman; "Jim Corbett, or John Sullivan?" "Jeffries ate five lamb chops to his breakfast this morning," said the man of information, "and Johnson ate a chicken.

"They took me to their village and were going to burn me at the stake, only the butcher didn't bring it, then they decided they'd chop me to pieces only the butcher didn't bring the chops" Oh, boy!

She was closely watched, the task was very difficult, and dangerous; I was within the fraction of a second of discovery, but I took one chop of my big shears.

Eggs and bacon?' 'No, no!' 'Well, then, 'ave a chop?' 'No, no!' 'Ye must 'ave something.' 'A cup of tea, a slice of toast.

what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.

And Iah, my dear, I must confess that my hair is growing gray, and that my life has not been entirely empty without you, and that I ate and enjoyed two mutton-chops at luncheon, though I knew I should see you to-day.

about come to the delusion that I needs a good po'k-chop.

"'Is eyes was snappin' like two ends o' a live wire, and 'e 'andled them guns as business-like as a butcher cutting chops.

While I stood there a rather thin, respectably-dressed man entered, and seating himself upon one of the plush lounges at the further end, removed his bowler hat and ordered from the proprietor a chop and a pot of tea.

Season mutton chops with salt and pepper; put a tablespoonful of hot drippings in a saucepan; add the chops, some sliced turnips, potatoes and onions, salt and pepper.

Boswell was now provided for, in part, and the landlord prepared some mutton chops, which we could not eat, and killed two hens, of which Boswell made his servant broil a limb; with what effect I know not.

The father talked so much that his daughter Edith took the carving-fork from him and served out the mutton-chops herself.

I s'pose whar yeh come from they lay biscuits 'n' pork chops.

At twenty-five minutes and a half past six,in these serious cases it is important to be particular about time,Mr. Jay finished his chops and paid his bill.

*** A miner, fined one pound for wasting bread, was said to have thrown his dinnera mutton chop, onion sauce, and two slices of breadon the fire because he could not have potatoes.

He goes on to evince his affection, in the fashion of West Indians, by giving it a chop with his cutlass; but not in wantonness.

Here are enormous scales for weighing the chests; here, where the light falls in from the roof, are tables placed for superintendents, who carefully watch the workmen; farther off, are foreigners inspecting a newly arrived chop; at the extreme end is the little apartment where the tea merchant receives people upon business; and through the high door beyond, we see the crowded river, and chopboats waiting for cargoes.

Do ye know how t' chop er hoe er swing a scythe?" "Yes." "Wal, then, if ye don't ever git t' be President, ye won't have t' starve.

I allers found out that when a man is gettin up in the world, that, like carrion crows hoverin over a sick animal, grumblers fly about him, lickin their chops and watchin a good opportunity to scratch him ragged.

Throughout the whole of the long wars that succeeded the French Revolution, the part of the ocean which lay off the chops of the channel was vigilantly watched by the English, and it was seldom, indeed, a vessel could go over it, without meeting more or less of their cruisers.

" Mr. Sewell paused in the act of lifting a chop from the fire, and, resting the point of his fork against the woodwork of the mantel-piece, grinned from ear to ear.

If his patron be given to music, he opens his chops and sings, or with a wry neck falls to tuning his instrument; if that fail, he takes the height of his lord with a hawking pole.

On each one of these rounds place a chop and cover the top with Bechamel sauce.

You must send up the mutton chops in the dish with the hotch-potch.