"But there is any quantity of
oatmeal, which we often cook for breakfast.
It was Smilash's custom to make a hot drink of
oatmeal and water for himself at half-past nine o'clock each evening, and to go to bed at ten.
She began to assist the water with a slim
oatmeal diet and blister- plasters.
There was no cloth to lay; the meals were either of
oatmeal porridge or salt junk, except twice a week, when there was duff: and though I was clumsy enough and (not being firm on my sealegs) sometimes fell with what I was bringing them, both Mr.
"Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked
oatmeal mush.
The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and
oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.
Captain Van Horn gave him, first of all, a pannikin of
oatmeal mush, generously flooded with condensed cream and sweetened with a heaping spoonful of sugar.
"Uncle, are you going to make me eat
oatmeal?" asked Rose, in a tragic tone.
She would have ready a great pot full of steaming black coffee, and
oatmeal and bread and smoked sausages; and then she would fix them their dinner pails with more thick slices of bread with lard between them--they could not afford butter--and some onions and a piece of cheese, and so they would tramp away to work.
Joseph was bending over the fire, peering into a large pan that swung above it; and a wooden bowl of
oatmeal stood on the settle close by.
In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks, under
Oatmeal Crag.
She gave us breakfast--stiff
oatmeal porridge without milk, and a boiled egg apiece.