"Bilin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I kep' my two eyes open, an' I sabed de sauce from burnin', an' de roun' 'taters from bilin' over, an' de onions from sco'chin' an' de sweet-er-taters f'om bein' charcoal on one side an' baked raw on de odder. Glo-ree! dat was one 'citin' ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill
... pretty slow molasses, Mr. Cheeseman," he said. "I ain't used to bilin', except in the way of gettin' mad once in a while, and I don't do that real often; but ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... a-bilin' out of the river. It'll take all day to get anywhere. Hadn't you better anchor at the mouth of the river till it turns? We can run up the river in the night, so ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... laid awake nights, till he came all to skin an' bone, on' sorra a ha'porth o' the little rid hin could he git at. But at lasht there came a shcame intil his wicked ould head, an' he tuk a big bag one mornin', over his shouldher, and he says till his mother, says he, 'Mother, have the pot all bilin' agin' I come home, for I'll bring the little rid hin to-night for our shupper.' An' away he wint, over the hill, an' came craping shly and soft through the woods to where the little rid hin lived in her shnug bit iv a house. ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... fly in a honeypot. Everything turned out well, which was a mercy, Hannah said, "For my mind was that flustered, Mum, that it's a merrycle I didn't roast the pudding, and stuff the turkey with raisins, let alone bilin' of it ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... settles breakfast better than digestive pills; Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills; When the hired help have riled me with their slipshod, careless ways, An' I'm bilin' mad an' cussin' an' my temper's all ablaze, If the calf gets me to laughin' while they're teachin' him to feed Pretty soon I'm feelin' better, 'cause I've ...
— Just Folks • Edgar A. Guest
... ye have a receipt for toddy? Av whiskey ye take a quart, I think; Thin out av a pint av bilin' wather Ivery dhrop ye ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... the pot all bilin' Agin the time I come; We'll ate the small Rid Hin to-night, For ...
— Stories to Tell Children - Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling • Sara Cone Bryant
... over to our hotel an' take your meals, eh?" The Texan went on, after a short pause. "I've got a pot of coffee bilin' an' a mess o' bacon fryin'. No?" He grinned sardonically. "How'd you like me to give you some o' this here cabareet stuff, while you're waitin'? I ain't no great shucks as a entertainer, but I'll do what I can. Mebbe, ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... an hour. He was talking with some of these garrison soldiers here just after the men had come in from the herd, and what I'm afraid of is that he'll go up into the post and get bilin' full there. I've sent other non-commissioned officers after him, but they cannot find him. He hasn't even looked in at the store, ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... was warm now, and on tiptoe Johnson and Rosy-Lilly went about their work, setting the table, "bilin' the tea," and frying the bacon. When Red McWha came in from the barn, and stamped the snow from his feet, Rosy-Lilly said "Hush!" laid her finger on her lip, and glanced meaningly at the moveless ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... Nater be your Dick Tater!" In depressin times like these here, keep the pot a bilin' so to speak; and stand firm to the three hesses, Soup, Shampane, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 20, 1892 • Various
... an' cold," said Joe Dumsby in the tones of an oracle. "Just fill your mouth with bilin' 'ot water, an' dip your face in a basin o' cold, and it's ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne
... Anthony, reaching for his chequebook, "it was a good bilin' of soap. Let's see—you had $5,000 ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... in an' 'ave a drop of tay-warter, miss, the kittle's bilin'; and I have the table laid ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin
... darter, an' take a look at the finest litter o' pigs as ever was seen in this county, barrin' none! A litter as clean an' sweet as daisies in new-mown hay, an' now's the time for ye to look at 'em, Passon, an' choose yer own suckin' beast for bilin' or roastin' which ye please, for both's as good as t'other,—an' there ain't no man about 'ere what desarves a sweet suckin' pig more'n you do, an' that I say an' swear to. It's a real prize litter I do assure you!—an' Mattie my darter, she be that proud, ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... found among the vitreous lavas with pitch-stone and obsidian bases, blocks of real greenish-grey, or mountain-green phonolite, with a smooth fracture, and divided into thin laminae, sonorous and keen edged. These masses were the same as the porphyrschiefer of the mountain of Bilin in Bohemia; we recognised in them small long ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... a drowsy tone, "I dunno 'bout'n that. I'm sorter banged out, 'kase I hev had a powerful hard day's work a-bilin' sorghum at our house. I b'lieves I'll rest my bones hyar, an' ...
— The Young Mountaineers - Short Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... no time for um 'scouse dis mornin'—too busy bilin' beef; but breakfast in um brace of shakes," replied the darkey, grinning from ear to ear and showing his white teeth and full lips to ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... [ecskiutres] Executrix, n. [ecskiutrics] Albacea, ejecutora. Babaing tagaganap ng huling bilin ng namatay. ...
— Dictionary English-Spanish-Tagalog • Sofronio G. Calderon |
