"Drippings" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow," said Tom, "it would be a charity to pop him into a rattler, and drive him home; and do you see, he is standing close to a mud cart, the delicate drippings of which are gently replenishing his ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... put out the light, and stood on the back steps. The frost had settled in a silver sheen over the roofs of the barns and the sheds, and a scum of ice had frozen over a tub of drippings at the well. Dannie was bitterly cold. He went home, and hunted out his winter overcoat, lighted his lantern, picked up a heavy cudgel in the corner, and started to town on foot over the path that lay across the ...
— At the Foot of the Rainbow • Gene Stratton-Porter
... that I know of in which the mine could be flooded intentionally," replied the caretaker. "There is a large drain, of course, in what is known as the sump. Considerable water runs off in that way, and the rest of the drippings are taken out by the pumps. If this sump drainage could become clogged, the mine, of course, would become flooded though not to such an extent, unless the pumps were ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... tablespoonful of drippings in a pan; add the brains, 1 sliced onion, some parsley, salt and pepper. Let stew fifteen minutes. Thicken the sauce with butter and flour; let boil up. Serve hot with spinach and sprinkle all ...
— 365 Foreign Dishes • Unknown
... drink as if a worm had bored its slow way in and out of it. I can see him now, cross-legged, beyond the flames, big, unshaven, heavy-jowled, dirty, what he thought dripping from his mouth like the bacon drippings he was too lazy to wipe away. I won't tell you what he talked about; you know, the old thing; but not the way even the most wrong-minded of ordinary men talks; there was a sodden, triumphant deviltry in him that was appalling. He cursed the country for its lack of opportunity ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
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