dish fit for a king
Example Sentences
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Eaten thus they make a dish fit for a king.
From Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley
An onion salad, dressed only with salt, vinegar, and pepper, seemed a dish fit for a king, but last night the soldiers quartered near made a raid on the garden and took them all.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable
An onion salad, dressed only with salt, vinegar, and pepper, seemed a dish fit for a king; but last night the soldiers quartered near made a raid on the garden and took them all.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by George Washington Cable
In twenty minutes they were done, the heads were cut away, the skin with its load of scales peeled off, and our hungry hunters sat down to a dish fit for a king.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis
About five minutes is enough for the transaction; and then, with a squeeze of lemon and a dash of cayenne, you’ve got a dish fit for a king!
From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene
