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The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

We had new potatoes for dinner, boiled with their skins on, and Liszt threw one at me, and I caught it.

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

Potatoes also are extensively planted, and I never saw a more vigorous growth.

A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

You know the fable about the dog who dropped his meat in the water, trying to snap at its reflection?

They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.

Three men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

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OCTOBER 26, 1985