"Fries" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... part of each year she could rent the extra bed-room to some one, preferably a boy, like Bill, who was attending high school. There was a barn for her horse and the one cow she would keep, a neat little chicken-house for the twenty-five hens that would more than supply her with eggs and summer fries, and a small garage for Martin's car. It would seem very strange, she thought, to have so few things to care for and she wondered how she would fill her time, she whose one problem always had been how to achieve snatches of leisure. She saw herself jogging on and on, gradually getting to be less ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... not bein' yere none,' says Enright softly, an' peerin' about some cautious, 'I submits that while no more esteemable lady ever tosses a flapjack or fries salt-hoss in a pan, her figger is mebby jest a trifle too abundant. As Jestice, she'll nacherally be arrayed—as Texas says—in white, same as Nell as the Goddess. I don't want to seem technicle, but white augments the size of folks ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... keepes a worse Table: first, a brave Generall Carbonadoed[165], then a fat Bishop broyl'd, whose Rochet[166] comes in fryed for the second course, according to the old saying, A plumpe greazie Prelate fries a ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... quintet is probably not that in C, Op. 29, dedicated to Count v. Fries, previously published in 1803 by Breitkopf & Haertel [see No. 27]. It is more likely that he alludes to a new quintet which the Count had no ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 of 2 • Lady Wallace
... the Rough Riders—it is well known that a herd of those competent and loyal ex-warriors paid a visit to the big city. The newspaper reporters dug out of their trunks the old broad-brimmed hats and leather belts that they wear to North Beach fish fries, and mixed with the visitors. No damage was done beyond the employment of the wonderful plural "tenderfeet" in each of the scribe's stories. The Westerners mildly contemplated the skyscrapers as high as the third story, yawned at Broadway, ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
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