"Pork" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been astir since the first drum had beat to arms at two of the clock. He gave one glance at the boiling cream and the slices of crisp pork swimming in it, as he gasped forth the words, "Getting breakfast in Concord THIS morning! MOTHER MOULTON, you MUST ...
— Twilight Stories • Various
... Hereward himself, to take service with him for that or any other quest. So they ballasted their ships with great pebbles, stowed under the thwarts, to be used as ammunition in case of boarding; and over them the barrels of ale and pork and meal, well covered with tarpaulins. They stowed in the cabins, fore and aft, their weapons,—swords, spears, axes, bows, chests of arrow-heads, leather bags of bowstrings, mail-shirts, and helmets, and fine clothes for holidays and fighting days. They hung their ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... bright-looking lad of ten or twelve years; "Don't you see Mr. Archer's come?—away with you and light the parlor fire, look smart now, or I'll cure you! Supper—you're always eat! eat! eat! or, drink! drink!—drunk! Yes! supper; we've got pork! ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... bread more or less common. The cowpeas and corn fodder usually kept one or more cows through the winter when they could not secure a living in the brush. Tobacco, the principal "money crop," was depended on to buy clothing, and "groceries," which included more or less fish and pork, although some farmers "raised their own meat," in part by fattening hogs on the acorns that fell in the autumn ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins
... I'm raising the wind, But the storm once abated, I'm gentle and kind; I see kings at my feet, Who wait but my nod, To kneel in the dust Which my footsteps have trod. Though seen by the world, I'm known but to few; The Gentiles detest me, I'm pork to the Jew. I never have past But one night in the dark, And that was with Noah, Alone, in the ark. My weight is three pounds, My length is a mile, And when I'm discover'd, You'll say, with a smile, My first and my last Are the wish of ...
— Notes & Queries,No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 • Various
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