"Poach" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in my mother's garden waiting for servants to come downstairs and make coffee for me and poach eggs. It was going to be a lovely day. Already the sun had coaxed the tea-olives to give out their odor of ripe peaches. "How she loves them," I thought. "If only she ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris
... the judge, "he can't suppose that my giving up the fishing would make it any easier for his friend to poach." ...
— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham
... her am home, seh, I seed she herse'f dis mornin' cum down de parf from de front poach wid ...
— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott
... me disclaim any intention of interfering with the Little Sisters of the Poor, or any other persons, who collect the broken victuals of hotels and other establishments for charitable purposes. My object is not to poach on my neighbour's domains, nor shall I ever be a party to any contentious quarrels for the control of this or that source of supply. All that is already utilised I regard as outside my sphere. The unoccupied wilderness of waste is a wide ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth
... Poach eggs as soft as possible. Butter a baking-dish; add a layer of bread-crumbs and grated cheese. Place the eggs on the crumbs; sprinkle with salt, pepper, grated cheese and chopped parsley. Cover with bread-crumbs and pour over some cream sauce. Let bake in a hot ...
— 365 Foreign Dishes • Unknown
... was convulsed with laughter, so that the glasses shook, but the bridegroom became furious at the thought that anybody would profit by his wedding to come and poach on his land, and repeated: "I only say: Just ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant
... and my father too; and it is as honest a way of making money as any other: I poach in no man's ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
... there?" inquired he, well knowing he was. "I just wanted to ask, would it be any trouble to poach that egg for my breakfast and serve it with a bit of toast; I'm feeling a little bit dainty. You'll poach it ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams
... embarrassing. If he began to slaughter calves, and poach deer, and rollick around, and learn English, at the earliest likely moment—say at thirteen, when he was supposably wretched from that school where he was supposably storing up Latin for future literary use—he had his youthful hands full, and much more than full. He must have had to put ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... boxes of books. The heat threatens the amateur with sunstroke. Then, says M. Octave Uzanne, in a prose ballade of book-hunters—then, calm, glad, heroic, the bouquineurs prowl forth, refreshed with hope. The brown old calf-skin wrinkles in the sun, the leaves crackle, you could poach an egg on the cover of a quarto. The dome of the Institute glitters, the sickly trees seem to wither, their leaves wax red and grey, a faint warm wind is walking the streets. Under his vast umbrella the book-hunter is ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... word of it," said Marcella, impatiently. "Hurd has been in good work since October, and has no need to poach. Westall has a down on him. You may tell him I think so, if ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... CREAM SAUCE.—Poach eggs as in the foregoing, and pour over them a sauce made according to direction ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... disguise. See him, with aspect grave and gentle tread, By slow degrees approach the sickly bed; Then at his Club behold him alter'd soon— The solemn doctor turns a low Buffoon, And he, who lately in a learned freak Poach'd every Lexicon and publish'd Greek, Still madly emulous of vulgar praise, From Punch's forehead wrings the ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... "Yes, and to poach too," said Mr. Forester good-humouredly. "I begin to think that Hunters' Brae favours these fellows," he called over his shoulder as he left the house with Blanche ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... salt and pepper, and a tablespoonful or two of minced celery; chop up the meat; put it in a pan with a little butter or turkey fat, to prevent burning, and just a suspicion of onion; moisten with a little broth made from the turkey bones. Poach one or two eggs for each person; arrange the minced meat neatly on slices of buttered toast; place the egg ...
— Breakfast Dainties • Thomas J. Murrey
... open gates when they see him coming. But if they presume to go to the Methodists' meeting, or to a Radical club, or complain of the price of bread, which is a grievous sin against the agricultural interest; or to poach, which is all crimes in one—if they fall into any of these sins, oh, then, they are poor devils indeed! Then does the worthy old squire hate all the brood of them most righteously; for what are they but Atheists, Jacobins, Revolutionists, Chartists, rogues and vagabonds? With what a frown ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various |
