Why, gentlemen, I haven't eaten a civilised meal, with all the trimmings, for over two years.

" If the Master was taking a meal, and there were any in mourning beside him, he would not eat to the full.

" It was two hours later when we reached the tent; and, without delay, we set to work to prepare a meal; for we had eaten nothing since our lunch at midday.

We finished our evening meal while the sun was yet above the western hills, and sat with our pipes around a smudge, made upon the broad flat rock, which recedes with a gentle acclivity from the shore, where the Bog River enters the lake, looking out over the stirless waters.

While in camp he busied himself in carrying wood and water, attending to the fire, and preparing and cooking the meals, never asking me to do a thing.

At noon they found a real old English chop house, where they enjoyed a famous meal.

" The afternoon was now ending, and we were given a meal of corn-cakes and roast deer's flesh.

And in another district: "As we went along our wonder was not that the people died, but that they lived; and I have no doubt whatever that in any other country the mortality would have been far greater; that many lives have been prolonged, perhaps saved, by the long apprenticeship to want in which the Irish peasant has been trained, and by that lovely, touching charity which prompts him to share his scanty meal with his starving neighbor.

One man cooked, another brought wood and water, another stood guard, and so on, each having some duty to perform while getting meals.

I'll tell Misery to bring all your meals to this room, and no one ever comes to this end of the garden.

By God's blessing, in a few weeks we may be making our meal together, or sitting in the front row of the pit at Drury Lane, or taking our evening walk past the theatres, to look at the outside of them, at least, if not to be tempted in.

"Johnnie," said Mavity Bence, keeping behind the girl's chair as she served the meal to her at the end of the long table, "I ain't never done you a meanness yet, have I?

I even order his meals.

They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters.

On the day that I left hospital, with a month's sick leave in hand, I went to dine at my favourite Soho restaurant, the Mazarin, which I always liked because it provided an excellent meal for an extremely modest sum.

One day he appeared to be having a meal on the shop counter, and it was explained that he had been "rather in a hurry" in the morning, so Mrs. Bird had given him his breakfast to take with him.

It was afternoon when he awoke and after obtaining a meal he strolled out into the village and entered the newspaper office.

In smaller families, where there is only one nursemaid kept, she is assisted by the housemaid, or servant-of-all-work, who will do the rougher part of the work, and carry up the nursery meals.

At length a menial approached, followed by a line of servants, and placing the boar's head on the table, the guests rushed forward to begin the meal; when, to their horror, they discovered, not a boar's but a bull's head,a sign of death.

He had not enough money in his pocket to buy a meal, but he was not thinking so far ahead.

your basin, by pouring a little hot water into it; then put a small quantity of finely-ground linseed-meal into the basin, pour a little hot water on it, and stir it round briskly until you have well incorporated them; add a little more meal and a little more water; then stir it again.

Shah Mirza also collared a fowl, which no doubt formed his next meal.

In this way I would eat about three times the quantity of vegetables as I took the first time before I finally ended my meal.

Mr. Hatchard, supping on bread and cheese, more than once left that wholesome meal to lean over the balusters and smell the hot meats going into Mr. Sadler.

During the brief rest that followed the meal, however, Midshipman Pennington made it his business to try to meet Dave Darrin alone.