"Baste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it in a dripping pan with one cent's worth of soup greens, and put it in a hot oven to brown it quickly; when it is brown take it out of the oven, season with salt and pepper, baste it with a little sweet drippings, return it to the oven, and bake it thoroughly fifteen minutes to each pound. Meantime wash one quart of potatoes, (cost three cents,) pare a ring off each one, and boil them in ...
— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson
... along of that drunken brute, Jim O'Connel. He was smokin' in bed, bad luck to him, as drunk as a baste, and the burnin' tobacker fell out on the shates, and set the ...
— Slow and Sure - The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant • Horatio Alger
... me out of the room, eh, will you? Try, only try it, that's all.' Here a new roar of laughter burst forth, while Tim, again placing an enormous paw upon my shoulder, continued, 'Don't be sitting there, making a baste of yourself, when you've got enough. ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... cry the goodman saved himself "Out, skinker!" Grio cried grimly. "And you, say your prayers, puppy. Before you are five minutes older I will spit you like a partridge though I cross the frontier for it. You have basted me with wine! I will baste you after another fashion! ...
— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman
... it's a fine baste that same, and the two of you looks well together, with the white cockatoo feathers, and the sword all gould ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor
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