But when he began to throw his cucumbers over our wall--'
'To throw his cucumbers over our wall!' repeated Nicholas, in great astonishment.
The Sultan, noticing that his favourite dish of
cucumber was placed before him, proceeded to help himself to it, and was amazed to and that the stuffing was of pearls.
"Criminals also can be as cool as
cucumbers," said Brown with a smile.
Before we left, Peter put ripe
cucumbers into a sack for Mrs.
Before him stood the orderly with a tray of brandy and salted
cucumbers. "Here's Yashvin ordering me a drink a pick-me-up."
"Do you mind the night I et the
cucumbers and milk to make me dream?" said Cecily.
But the interest of the day's proceedings for us is centred neither in the learned discourse of our friend Van Systens, however eloquent it might be, nor in the young dandies, resplendent in their Sunday clothes, and munching their heavy cakes; nor in the poor young peasants, gnawing smoked eels as if they were sticks of vanilla sweetmeat; neither is our interest in the lovely Dutch girls, with red cheeks and ivory bosoms; nor in the fat, round mynheers, who had never left their homes before; nor in the sallow, thin travellers from Ceylon or Java; nor in the thirsty crowds, who quenched their thirst with pickled
cucumbers; -- no, so far as we are concerned, the real interest of the situation, the fascinating, dramatic interest, is not to be found here.
It was by the same method that men, aping her, bred race-horses and
cucumbers. Doubtless, a creator of a Cosmos could have devised a better method; but creatures of this particular Cosmos must put up with this particular method.
Start her, Tash, my boy --start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--
cucumbers is the word --easy, easy --only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys --that's all.
After a velvety oyster soup came shad and
cucumbers, then a young broiled turkey with corn fritters, followed by a canvas-back with currant jelly and a celery mayonnaise.
The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the Club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh
cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner.