"Paring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... adjoining my own, in which is my stable. There has lately been imported into this part of Kentucky from England the much-prized breed of the beautiful white Berkshire. As I crossed the lot, near the milk-trough, ash-heap, and paring of fruit and vegetables thrown from my neighbor's kitchen, I saw a litter of these pigs having their awkward sport over some strange red plaything, which one after another of them would shake with all its might, root and tear at, or tread into greater shapelessness. ...
— A Kentucky Cardinal • James Lane Allen
... to you. I know it will. A potato-paring and a true heart are your beau-ideal for this world. I am made of viler stuff. I have had the true heart, and see what I have ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... provisions be set down. They were to see that the powdered and salted meats in the larder were properly kept; and vigilant supervision was to be exercised over the cellar, buttery, and other departments, even to the prevention of paring the tallow lights. ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt
... one of the ladies went through the ceremony of initiation into West Indian ways, which consisted in sucking sugar-cane, first pared for the sake of their teeth. The Negro's stronger incisors tear it without paring. Two amusing figures, meanwhile, had taken up their station close to the companion. Evidently privileged personages, they felt themselves on their own ground, and looked round patronisingly on the passengers, as ignorant foreigners who were too certain to ...
— At Last • Charles Kingsley
... apples, after paring them as for sauce, remove from fire, sweeten a little. Add a lump of butter, 1 cup cracker crumbs, stirred in 1 cup milk, yolks of 4 eggs, keeping whites for frosting, with 1/2 cup sugar. ...
— The Cookery Blue Book • Society for Christian Work of the First Unitarian Church, San
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