Now a vast roast turkey, stretched on the broad of his back, with his heels in the air and the rich
juices oozing from his fat sides ...
Another reason which Sag-Harbor (he went by that name) urged for his want of faith in this matter of the prophet, was something obscurely in reference to his incarcerated body and the whale's gastric
juices. But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale -- even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them.
Greatly to their surprise he raised himself, looked at his watch, and remarked that, as it was now half an hour since luncheon, the gastric
juices had had sufficient time to secrete; he was trying a system, he explained, which involved short spells of exercise interspaced by longer intervals of rest.
Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive
juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating.
Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Froom Vale, at a season when the rush of
juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate.
When the Queen sees them doing this she signs to the servants to wash up and put away, and then everybody adjourns to the dance, the Queen walking in front while the Lord Chamberlain walks behind her, carrying two little pots, one of which contains the
juice of wall-flower and the other the
juice of Solomon's Seals.
I split the melons with an old corn-knife, and we lifted out the hearts and ate them with the
juice trickling through our fingers.
Thus, like figs, do these doctrines fall for you, my friends: imbibe now their
juice and their sweet substance!
Certain plants excrete a sweet
juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from their sap: this is effected by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the back of the leaf of the common laurel.
No mystery, Valeria, in that claret--I'll take my oath it's nothing but innocent
juice of the grape.
"Pshaw, it was just the potato
juice," scoffed Dan.
However, the green limes that I gathered were not only pleasant to eat, but very wholesome; and I mixed their
juice afterwards with water, which made it very wholesome, and very cool and refreshing.