"Gristly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... portion designed to be cooked in a certain manner shall have wasteful appendages which that mode of cooking will spoil. The French soup-kettle stands ever ready to receive the bones, the thin fibrous flaps, the sinewy and gristly portions, which are so often included in our roasts or broilings, which fill our plates with unsightly debris, and finally make an amount of blank waste for which we pay our butcher the same price that we pay for ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various
... on the rocks by the fire and opened the farmer's bundle. There were cold, gristly roast beef, bread and cheese, and a large, ...
— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis
... piece of grey gristly squid to Dick, who, after a fashion, buried the hook in it right over the shank, making a clumsy knob, which he held up ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn |
