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...ar‘s lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver‘d by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger chaudron, For the ingredi...

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...who toils all day in the sun and does not know what is coffee; he drinks only gruel with salt. On the other hand, any Brahmin working in a hotel or ... ...e No matter how sever the drought, only the proletariats suffer for rice and gruel. The Brahmin would eat rice and ghee in a tender plantain leaf! ... ...he Gurukulam were fed outside. When ‘Uppuma’ was given to Brahmin boys, only gruel was poured to Non-Brahmin boys. The son of Omandur Ramasamy Redd...

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...eech could not be understood, he drooled, he couldn’t chew food so he was fed gruel and mushed pap all his life. He was mentally defective; he shit ... ...ess in a Soviet slave-labor camps once was getting a little extra meat in your gruel at the end of the day, after being forced to work in freezing co...

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... deliberation. ‘It’s very likely it will be troublesome. Give it a little gruel if it is.’ He put on his hat, and, pausing by the bed side on his way... ...y periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll of Sundays. They m... ...for this difficulty. The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people. For the first six months after Oliver Tw... ...h fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two’s gruel. But the number of workhouse in mates got thin as well as the pauper... ... in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer,... ...ers most as siduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon. Boys have generally excellent appe... ...hop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who... ...f at the copper; his pau per assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The... ...ruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; whi...

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...mall fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little sauce pan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob. Nobody under the bed... ...own and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He ... ...d was now stand ing there: perfectly winded. ‘There’s the saucepan that the gruel was in. ’ cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fi...

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... a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge has a cold in his head) upon the hob. Nobody under the bed... ...own and slippers, and his night cap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He w... ...and was now standing there: perfectly winded. “There’s the saucepan that the gruel was in!” cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fire...

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...endance, as would have laid on the point of a needle. They fed me on water gruel, and I speedily be came a skeleton above ground. But, after all, I h... ...ss, according to the full measure of their capacity. Zenobia brought me my gruel every day, made by her own hands (not very skilfully, if the truth mu... ...dale,” said she one day, as she saw me watching her, while she arranged my gruel on the table, “I have been exposed to a great deal of eye shot in the... ...ost ungratefully began to wish that she would let me alone. Then, too, her gruel was very wretched stuff, with almost invariably the smell of pine smo... ...ainties. Why could not she have allowed one of the other women to take the gruel in charge? Whatever else might be her gifts, Nature certainly never i... ...uperintend the laundry, and you, Mr. Coverdale, another nurse to make your gruel, the next time you fall ill. It was, indeed, a foolish dream! Yet it ...

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..., hopeless old gang; to hold out a trembling hand for a sickly pittance of gruel, and say, “Thank you, ma’am,” to Miss Prim, when she has done reading...

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...alth made him grieve that they would eat. Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, rec... ...your journey! You must go to bed early, my dear—and I rec- ommend a little gruel to you before you go.—You and I will have a nice basin of gruel toget... ...a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel.” Emma could not suppose any such thing, knowing as she did, that bot... ...d two basins only were ordered. After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by every bo... ... but the evening did not close without a little return of agita- tion. The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said— much praise and many comme... ...ver had been able to un- derstand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. Often as she had wished for and or- dered it... ...nt rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel. After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with, “I shall ... ...ort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome; and the day wa...

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...course of treatment for only one week, accompanied with small doses of water gruel, weak broth, and barley water, led to their entire disappearance. I... ...total abstinence from all stimulants, and forbidding any sustenance but weak gruel; he then took twenty ounces of blood, applied a blis ter under eac...

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...s lips, Finger of birth strangled babe Ditch deliver’d by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingredients o...

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...g, whilst their entertainer, through his wound, was kept to diet drink and gruel. These gentlemen were Whigs, and great admirers of my Lord Duke of Ma... ...h; “and require a nymph that can tuck my bed-clothes up, and make me water-gruel. Well, Tom Lockwood can do that. He took me out of the fire upon his ... ... gown. Eh! cousin, a goddess in a mob- cap, that has to make her husband’s gruel, ceases to be di- vine—I am sure of it. I should have been sulky and ...

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...her and asked her pardon. “’Tis time for me to go to roost. I will have my gruel a-bed,” said my Lord Mohun: and limped off comically on Harry Esmond’... ... and this was no other than the Lady Castlewood herself with the toast and gruel, which her husband bade her make and carry with her own hands in to h... ...o run down the gallery fast enough,” Harry goes on. “I am sure that taking gruel at night is not so pleasant as claret to your lordship; and besides i...

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... housemaid, who used to do his bedroom and sitting-room out, bring him his gruel, and warm his bed. When the little housemaid came to him in the morni...

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...lease. But you’ve caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have some gruel to drive it out.’ The worthy woman bustled off, and I crouched nearer... .... I’m annoyed how I should dream of chattering on at such a rate; and your gruel cold, and you nodding for bed! I could have told Heathcliff ’s histor... ...had a fever. He bled her, and he told me to let her live on whey and water-gruel, and take care she did not throw herself downstairs or out of the win... ...ater in her pitcher and decanter, desired a renewed supply, and a basin of gruel, for she believed she was dying. That I set down as a speech meant fo...

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...him comfortably in bed when he got to Faro that night, and made him a warm gruel and put his feet in warm water. The men clung around him, and almost ... ...g away from the shore, and who knows when that meek bishop got home to his gruel? I think these were the notables of our party. I will not men- tion t...

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...to give great imperial presents, and the fool would beg only for a dish of gruel, he would be rightly considered a rogue and a scoundrel who treated t...

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...youth with all its admirable pleasures, in the hope of a better quality of gruel in a more than prob- lematical, nay, more than improbable, old age. W...

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...ew Murray edition of Byron, Vol. IV. 96 (footnote) BURGOO: a thick oatmeal gruel or porridge used by seamen. According to the New English Dictionary t...

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...aynim Saracens. Simpleness of diet was prescribed to them, roots, pottage, gruels, eating flesh but thrice a-week, because the accustomed feeding on f...