"Plenty of onions and garlic and a dash of red pepper.
The place was a sort of store-house; containing bags of potatoes and baskets of carrots, onions and turnips.
Danglars felt his own not to be very well supplied just then, and gradually the man appeared less ugly, the bread less black, and the cheese more fresh, while those dreadful vulgar
onions recalled to his mind certain sauces and side-dishes, which his cook prepared in a very superior manner whenever he said, "Monsieur Deniseau, let me have a nice little fricassee to-day." He got up and knocked on the door; the bandit raised his head.
A reddish, hook-nosed man, with a jaunty, wicked look, came and smiled upon me in the friendliest fashion; the smell of
onions became more than I knew how to endure.
In the course of her digging with her pointed stick Mistress Mary had found herself digging up a sort of white root rather like an
onion. She had put it back in its place and patted the earth carefully down on it and just now she wondered if Martha could tell her what it was.
A pleasant odour of
onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:
I need no more be afraid lest on the day of a riot the shopkeepers of the town and the sailors of the port should come and tear out my bulbs, to boil them as
onions for their families, as they have sometimes quietly threatened when they happened to remember my having paid two or three hundred guilders for one bulb.
The Dodger had a vicious propensity, too, of pulling the caps from the heads of small boys and tossing them down areas; while Charley Bates exhibited some very loose notions concerning the rights of property, by pilfering divers apples and
onions from the stalls at the kennel sides, and thrusting them into pockets which were so surprisingly capacious, that they seemed to undermine his whole suit of clothes in every direction.
And very soon the parrot saw them again, coming up behind, dragging the onions through the waves in big nets made of seaweed.
"There is an island not far from here," said the porpoises, "where the wild onions grow tall and strong.
When they feast a friend they kill an ox, and set immediately a quarter of him raw upon the table (for their most elegant treat is raw beef newly killed) with pepper and salt; the gall of the ox serves them for oil and vinegar; some, to heighten the delicacy of the entertainment, add a kind of sauce, which they call manta, made of what they take out of the guts of the ox; this they set on the fire, with butter, salt, pepper, and
onion. Raw beef, thus relished, is their nicest dish, and is eaten by them with the same appetite and pleasure as we eat the best partridges.
"I have here an
onion and a little cheese and a few scraps of bread," said Sancho, "but they are not victuals fit for a valiant knight like your worship."
Among these is the camash, a sweet root, about the form and size of an
onion, and said to be really delicious.
Onions, garlic and leeks are crops that can be locally grown by farmers, stored and sold at good profit.
De Guzman, 45, deferred his harvest of
onions for days, waiting for farm-gate prices to increase from P20 per kilogram some two weeks ago.
