"Pone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the dupe of Mosca the knavish confederate of Vol'pone (2 syl.). He is an old man, with seeing and hearing faint, and understanding dulled to childishness, yet he wishes to live ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... bread is the first step, and here we find that the darkies of the South found good use for the remnants of the pork after lard was tried out at hog-killing time, by mixing the cracklings with their corn meal and making a pone which they cooked before an open fire on a hoe blade, the first of this being called "cracklin' ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords
... but it always got listened to. And the first reaction to it was likely to be one of indignant opposition. This was well expressed by the cartoon of black Matilda in the kitchen: "Mistah Hoover goin' to show me how to cook cawn pone? Well, I reckin not." So with the business man. But the second reaction, the one that came after listening to Hoover and thinking about the matter overnight, ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg
... among yowe. Which wordes of Paule ar not to be vnderstonded of the synne / for the greke word is in the masculyne gendre / ton pone:ron / and therfor he meanith by it / the wicked man. The same wordes I will now sumwhat bend / vse / and turn / vnto the profite of you that be weake / and thus saye vnto yowe. Put awaye your own selues from the euell men that ar emongst you: for ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr
... might forget our hunger in thankfulness for fire and shelter such as it was. But still better was in store for us. One of our tired forage trains had gone into park near us, and the teamsters offered to share their supper with us. They had corn "pone," some salt pork, and for a rarity some newly arrived coffee. We sat on the corn-stalks around the fire with an iron camp-kettle in the midst containing the black coffee which we dipped out with battered tin cups, and we held in our hands pieces of ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... arrogancia y sus vicios, Caballeresca apostura, Agilidad y bravura Ninguno alcanza a igualar; [135] Que hasta en sus crmenes mismos, En su impiedad y altiveza, Pone un sello de grandeza Don ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... mistake 'bout Pony," declared the little old woman in a bewildered tone. "Pone ain't but risin' sixteen, ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... exclaimed. "John 's be'n in the house an hour, and ain't had nothin' to eat yet! Go in the kitchen an' spread a clean tablecloth, an' git out that 'tater pone, an' a pitcher o' that las' kag o' persimmon beer, an' let John take ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt |
