"See here," said Dorothy, determined to defend her pets, "I think we've treated you all pretty well, seeing you're
eatables an' reg'lar food for us.
He had already eaten many during his numerous voyages, and he knew how to prepare the eatable substance.
For the moment, they were chattering with parrots of all colours, and grave cockatoos, who seemed to meditate upon some philosophical problem, whilst brilliant red lories passed like a piece of bunting carried away by the breeze, papuans, with the finest azure colours, and in all a variety of winged things most charming to behold, but few eatable.
Happy Ned proposed to return to this enchanting island the next day, for he wished to depopulate it of all the eatable quadrupeds.
The girl withdrew into a corner, while Miss Brass took a key from her pocket, and opening the safe, brought from it a dreary waste of cold potatoes, looking as
eatable as Stonehenge.
And she managed to find something which looked
eatable. That's all I know as I had no opportunity to observe the more intimate effects of that comestible.
Oh, we won't do that, sir; we'll take all the good
eatable parts of it, and, if you'll let me, I'll cut him up just as well as the chairman of the honorable corporation of butchers of the city of London could do."
MONTGOMERY interrupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o'clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and other
eatables, a flask of whiskey, a jug of water, and three glasses and knives.
Cypher's store of
eatables she poured out upon us with royal indifference to price and quantity, as from a cornucopia that knew no exhaustion.
The table had been spread with substantial
eatables nearly two hours before he presented himself-- a tall, stout man of sixty, with a face in which the knit brow and rather hard glance seemed contradicted by the slack and feeble mouth.
"And so it seems," returned the curate, and he told the canon what he proposed to do, on which he too made up his mind to halt with them, attracted by the aspect of the fair valley that lay before their eyes; and to enjoy it as well as the conversation of the curate, to whom he had begun to take a fancy, and also to learn more particulars about the doings of Don Quixote, he desired some of his servants to go on to the inn, which was not far distant, and fetch from it what
eatables there might be for the whole party, as he meant to rest for the afternoon where he was; to which one of his servants replied that the sumpter mule, which by this time ought to have reached the inn, carried provisions enough to make it unnecessary to get anything from the inn except barley.
Back went he to the pantry to see what
eatables were laid by.
If only the flowers had been
eatables, one might have suspected a thief of quite another shape--"
The leaders briefed the Director Education regarding the sale of unhealthy
eatable items in the schools.
He said that each household would be given 21 kilogrammes (kg) nonfood items comprising necessary
eatable goods.
