He curdled half the milk and set it aside in wicker strainers, but the other half he poured into
bowls that he might drink it for his supper.
Gringoire, still followed by his three persecutors, and not knowing very well what was to become of him, marched along in terror among them, turning out for the lame, stepping over the cripples in
bowls, with his feet imbedded in that ant-hill of lame men, like the English captain who got caught in the quicksand of a swarm of crabs.
Deep had been the consultations at supper as to the order of going in, who should
bowl the first over, whether it would be best to play steady or freely; and the youngest hands declared that they shouldn't be a bit nervous, and praised their opponents as the jolliest fellows in the world, except perhaps their old friends the Wellesburn men.
Speak for such a one, the wife of so-and-so!" Now and then some bold child would be allowed the honour, and Purun Bhagat would hear him drop the
bowl and run as fast as his little legs could carry him, but the Bhagat never came down to the village.
That
bowl of rack punch was the cause of all this history.
The scouts were hot and tired; the bowlers were changed and
bowled till their arms ached; but Dumkins and Podder remained unconquered.
I have now no chela, but I will take the alms-
bowl and thus enable the charitable to acquire merit.' He nodded his head valiantly.
``Art thou in condition to do good service, friar,'' said Locksley, ``or does the brown
bowl still run in thy head ?''
I shall pour my medicine into Nana's
bowl, and she will drink it, thinking it is milk!"
A MAN to Whom Time Was Money, and who was bolting his breakfast in order to catch a train, had leaned his newspaper against the sugar-
bowl and was reading as he ate.
Still, if you can
bowl a bit your low cunning won't get rusty, and always looking for the weak spot's just the kind of mental exercise one wants.
We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the
bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?
When Morel had drunk some vodka and finished his
bowl of porridge he suddenly became unnaturally merry and chattered incessantly to the soldiers, who could not understand him.
Afterwards it used to turn up in all sorts of places--at the bottom of small drawers, among my studs in cardboard boxes--till at last it found permanent rest in a large wooden
bowl containing some loose keys, bits of sealing wax, bits of string, small broken chains, a few buttons, and similar minute wreckage that washes out of a man's life into such receptacles.
Down the sides of every great rib of pure ice poured limpid rills in gutters carved by their own attrition; better still, wherever a rock had lain, there was now a bowl-shaped hole, with smooth white sides and bottom of ice, and this
bowl was brimming with water of such absolute clearness that the careless observer would not see it at all, but would think the
bowl was empty.
