Sedley had prepared a fine
curry for her son, just as he liked it, and in the course of dinner a portion of this dish was offered to Rebecca.
The demagogues, to
curry favour with the people, drive the nobles to conspire together, either by dividing their estates, or obliging them to spend them on public services, or by banishing them, that they may confiscate the fortunes of the wealthy.
Curry, of Washington, who is the general agent for these two funds, and Mr.
And just now we've come out from two weeks in the real wilds of
Curry County."
A
curry was exactly the medium which would disguise this taste.
Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to
curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother."
I gave them a pea soup and lobster a la portugaise, and a
curry, and a cocoa-nut salad -- you've never had one of my cocoa-nut salads, have you?
When we gave a dinner at home, we had gravy soup, turbot and lobster-sauce, haunch of mutton, boiled fowls and tongue, lukewarm oyster-patties and sticky
curry for side-dishes; wild duck, cabinet-pudding, jelly, cream and tartlets.
Now, mother, a little rice and some dried fish atop - yes, and some vegetable
curry.'
Falk isn't a man to make mistakes unless on purpose." His firm conviction was that Falk had been trying all along to
curry favour on the cheap with Hermann.
With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to
curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit--and, worst of all, how paltry, unliterary, commonplace it would all be.
At table, while eating rice and jack-rabbit
curry (the latter shot by Ferguson), they talked it over, and Daylight found the little man had no food "views." He ate whatever he liked, and all he wanted, avoiding only such combinations that experience had taught him disagreed with his digestion.