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The food, having been well chewed and mixed with saliva, is now ready to be swallowed as a soft, pasty mass.
Next, the company consumed a sort of pasty of which the precise name has escaped me, but which the host rendered differently even on the second occasion of its being mentioned.
I thought nothing whatever on this, for often there was special pasty made for my lady without hare's meat, which she disliked.
As I looked round the room numbers of their faces seemed pasty, and their shapes thick through, and soft, as if they would bruise easily if one touched them, and lived a good deal in the dark.
It was only while holding out his plate for a second helping of the pasty that Job spoke with a full mouth.
Job laid down knife and fork with their points resting on the rim of his plate, and, with a lump of pasty in one cheek, looked at his sister.
To him enter a pasty-faced Workman, with a greasy pat of something wrapped in a leaf from a ledger.
In vain, he slept like the dead; his face, always a pasty white, now like marble in the moonlight.
His hair was thin and his complexion pasty and his shoulders were too stooped for a man of his age.
Although the rain had not yet fallen long or heavily, the ditches were all running freely with red, muddy water, and the dust had already begun to cake itself into a sticky, pasty red clay.
Betty had spread a sheet of white paper, and on it had arranged the pasties according to their length.
In the kitchen, when Kitty at last reached it, Fanny was making pasties; and when Fanny chose she could make a pasty to perfection.
All the more reason that we should have a huge pasty, steaming hot, or two or three of them if necessary.
I will confess what I know without constraint; if ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more.
The poor creature's eyes had been closed, and her face, under the fallen bonnet, was of this same pasty color.
If the ground is dangerously damp or pasty, make a bed for the crop with light rich soil, plant on the level and mold up as the growth advances.
It is better to wait to the end of the month, or even far into the next, before sowing a seed than to sow on pasty ground.
The sand is too loose as the clay is too pasty, and it may be that we have to prevent the estate from being blown away.
Any good soil which does not become pasty will suit, and full exposure to sunshine is essential to the production of a rich display of color.
He certainly talked very slowly, in a dreary, monotonous sort of voice, which suited his dull, pasty face better than it suited the subject of his exciting narratives.
He ate a whole jelly, and then took four sandwiches off each plate, and four cakes and pasties off each plate.
The stools are a pale slate color, from the lack of bile, and are often pasty and offensive.
On each of her smooth, pasty cheeks might even be seen a little flush of color, and her dull blue eyes were brighter than their wont.
He was forty or forty-five, heavily built, with a rather pasty-white face, a large nose, eyes unusually deep set, and a closely clipped mustache beginning to gray.
Gresham's the only one who didn't have a pasty ready; you're supposed to dig one up for him.
It was now turned gray and pasty, and his cheeks, as firmly round as those of a trumpeter, were pouched and fallen as with the palsy of age.
On the morrow it was the same, and the five or six following days he was brought like pasties, of which he was already weary.
We see very well that they send to the hall and elsewhere, other meats; but for you there is nothing but pasties.
The stock of flour, we are told, is practically unlimited, and as no attempt is made to prevent its waste in pasty and fancy cakes, the authorities are acting apparently on this assumption.
He wants me to support him in a great railroad enterprise in his country: a new line to Strasbourg, and looks to a great traffic, I suppose, in pasties.
She was shocked at the change in her; the once pink cheeks were white and pasty, and her eyelids were red and swollen as if with perpetual crying.
I glanced at him, and saw that his face was of a pasty white and gleaming with perspiration.
There it was for her, let her take it if she would, or leave it if she would; and I set the jug down by the pasty.
She replaced the picture, and sought the kitchen, soon returning with the remains of a pasty and a flask of Rhenish, which, after again touching the spring, she handed up to her guest.
There are, I must tell you, pasties so jolly heavy that they call them 'inheritance pasties.'
There, sure enough, when I looked up, clung the poor gallant; peering down at us with pasty face, and hugging the mast with arms and legs.
In a short time a notable change will be observed in the skin, which will lose its pasty appearance, and become soft flesh and of a healthy color.
He had a mild, short-sighted expression, a pasty complexion, and the air of one who smoked too much.
His face had paled to the color of paper, and beads of perspiration stood out on his pasty forehead.
I hated her the moment I saw her face, it was so white and pasty; and she wasn't at all interesting.
He had ridden hard all night, and was pasty pale with fatigue and trouble; and his staff, mostly old men, were in hardly better plight.
Jim, on the other hand, was trembling, his face a pasty white, with great beads of perspiration standing on his forehead.
At this temperature the mixture of salts becomes partly fluid, or at least pasty, and the temperature may be kept at its highest point for, say, a quarter of an hour.
The grave, pasty-faced infant shrank into a panic of fear, and chewed the nipple nervously, clinging to it with both his thin little hands.
When at last I had resolved that a cold pasty and a bottle of Armagnac would satisfy our wants, I looked about me to take survey of those in the room.
When bread is sold by weight an excess of water is introduced to brands of dry flour, which absorb more than others, and the result is heavy, dark, pasty bread, which is often sour.
Henna is prepared by reducing the leaves to powder, and when used is made into a pasty mass with water and spread on the part to be dyed, being allowed to remain for twelve hours.
Before him a long table was spread with fruits and food of the rarest sort, while in a large chair at the further end a horse was seated enjoying a huge pasty.
As he took in the figure of the newcomer his eyes narrowed and his pasty, nasty face spread in a grin of comprehension.
The pasty white compound being hauled aloft was a self-setting refractory compound with which the rocket tubes would be lined, with the solid fuel filling the center.
As soon as it was fast, other men hurried into it with the white pasty stuff to line it from end to end.
Let them fondly imagine they can shoot us through this pasty soil, and keep their own counsel better after this!
Reedy Jenkins sat at his desk in shirt sleeves, his pink face a trifle pasty as he sweated over a column of figures.
A little pasty woman with a pinched yellowish face was already sitting there, so still, and seeming to see so little, that Noel wondered of what she could be thinking.
The surface should give the appearance of being well oiled, but not have a sticky, pasty or greasy surface.
"I tell you it's all foolishness, this losing sleep and wearing ourselves out," declared a tall, thin, pasty-faced individual.
While I was eating the beef and potato pasty which the landlady had provided for me, I thought I heard the sound of wheels, so I went to the door and listened intently, but all seemed silent.
And outside, I saw the pasty-faced crowd waiting to get in, and all the Sunday litter in the road.
It is important that the manure be so well rotted that it will not heat, and so dry that it will not become pasty when tramped into a firm, level layer.
Walking through the pasty blue mud in his bare feet, with the rain streaming through his hair and down his beard and shoulders, had been tedious, trying.
The Prince, however, had already tasted of the pasty, which proved hotter than fire with red pepper.
All were men of command, all except the pasty faced one, to whom they seemingly and surprisingly, deferred.
When I say don't work into wet color to correct, I do not mean that you are never to do so, but that to do it too much is likely to get your work muddy and pasty.
The appearance of the poor man was pale and pasty, like a plant long deprived of air and solar influence.
Never was there such a catching of flies before, nor a better pasty than the one the queen made for the fairy.
And it is certain that she poisoned pigeon pasties which were served up to guests whom she had invited.
The fat, however, is not extracted, but sugar, and sometimes other materials also, are added to the ground pasty mass, together with suitable flavoring materials, as for example vanilla.
When the spot becomes thick and pasty, it is at least weakened even if it does not come off.
The extreme type of soft cheese is a soft, pasty mass and can be easily spread with a knife.
The pale clerk gave such a sickly smile, I could have smacked some blood into his pasty face.
The secret of making a good white sauce is in cooking the flour until the starch grains have burst, which removes the raw and pasty taste one finds where this care is not used.
Pip paused, his small pasty-colored face, that without having gained any color had quieted down from its nervousness, now took on a fresh alarm, and he looked ready to run.
Rich people do not travel in this style, and I therefore have the right to ask if you can afford to pay for my pasty?
It is essentially a molding process, the iron or steel being worked at a full red, or white, heat when it is in a plastic and more or less pasty condition.
His pasty features were ghastly with fury, and Gordon, gazing up at him, found himself wondering how it came that the hot summer sun of the prairie was powerless to change its hue.
So, with the help of her friend, the queen soon made ready her pasty and carried it to the Lion Fairy.
Then, gradually recovering himself, he stumbled down the stairs, and seated himself, looking pasty and scared, by the fire below.
Whilst in a stiff pasty state it may be cut, molded or pressed into any desired shape without any danger of ignition.
Among the peculiar dishes of the Cornish cuisine, prominent is the pasty, the almost universal dinner of the working class.
His face was smooth and serene, and he was eating a white pasty looking substance from his great steel dish, using a big spoon.
Each person has a meat pasty, a potato pasty, a jam pasty, and an apple pasty, so that all we shall require will be water.
If I didn't make a pasty for you, last night, with my own hands, and I've been sitting on it all the time,' which he had, and anything like the mess he'd made of it you never saw.
What a miserable, pasty, milk-and-watery young person she is beside that magnificent, unconscious beauty!
The pasty came out of the oven baked to a turn, and smelling delicious, and Lilian felt quite a thrill of satisfaction as it was placed on the table, and Father began to cut it.
Partridges flanked one end, a pasty stood next, a cream, two chickens, a duck, and a ham of noble proportions.
This flask is accompanied by a very neat little leather case, which contains half a dozen nice biscuits, or, in some instances, a small pasty, composed of meat.
When she got near we saw that the tray contained three of the large pastry turnovers that, in outward appearance, at least, so strongly resemble Cornish pasties.
It was only when we waited for him, and discovered that he was engaged lunching on one of the hot pasties, that we understood his reluctance to join us.
When required for use, the powder is made into a pasty mass with hot water, and is then spread upon the part to be dyed, where it is generally allowed to remain for one night.
This proves that the regular descent of the material in its pasty state can take place even in a space which is narrowing downwards.
In truth, I got a great wealth of good scholarship and sound philosophy from my squire of bottle and pasty.
I had rather be frozen than stewed; rather be melted by the water like a piece of salt or sugar than baked like a pasty.
If the cheese contains too much moisture, it will cure rapidly and the body will be very soft and pasty.
When Madge, giving the knob a courageous twist, flung the door wide open, Ella's face was pasty white.
It should also be elastic, tender, and yet not pasty, evenly baked without streaks and heavy portions near the crust, and the color should be creamy rather than a snowy white.
They can be more cooked with chopped eggs, or treated like a chicken pasty, and cooked in a paste shell they are very good.
The "little cocked hat" is elsewhere described as having its flaps tacked close down to the crown, which made it look like "a triangular apple pasty".
This pasty, however, is just from the oven, as I intended supping on my return from talk with my keeper.
In this kind of pasty state it is placed in a box under a die, which descends upon it with considerable force.
At other times, if the cook desired, they were to be ready to make pasties and other things which seemed to require the gentler touch of a female hand.