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"Larder" Quotes from Famous Books

... I left Kalgan my larder was enriched from another and unexpected source. Thanks to the friendly introduction of an American gentleman in Peking, His Excellency, Hou Wei Teh, the Senior Vice-President of the Wai-wu-pu, most courteously sent instructions to Chinese ...

— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall

... contemporaries. On the same floor as himself lives a family who left Paris before the commencement of the siege. Necessity knows no law; so the other day he opened their door with a certain amount of gentle violence, and after a diligent search, discovered in the larder two onions, some potatoes, and a ham. These, with a fowl, which I believe has been procured honestly, are to constitute ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... sais I, "we have seen all that is worth notice here, let us go into one of their houses and ascertain if there is anything for Sorrow's larder; but, Doctor," sais I, "let us first find out if they speak English, for if they do we must be careful what we say before them. Very few of the old people I guess know anything but French, but the younger ones who frequent ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... 'I expec' the larder'll be in a swim,' she replied, 'but old bottled stuff don't take any harm from wet.' She returned with a tray, all in order, and they ate and drank together, and took observations of the falling flood till dawn ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... the inn, Mattie at once proceeding to show Alfaretta that she could do some fine cooking herself; and between them they made Mrs. Roderick's larder suffer, so eager was each to outdo the other and to suggest some further ...

— Dorothy on a Ranch • Evelyn Raymond

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