"Toothful" Quotes from Famous Books
... in this here climate. I was aboard of one of Rodneys fleet, dye see, about the time we licked De Grasse, Mounsheer Lor Quaws countryman, there; and the wind was here at the southard and east'ard; and I was below, mixing a toothful of hot stuff for the captain of marines, who dined, dye see, in the cabin, that there very same day; and I suppose he wanted to put out the captains fire with a gun-room ingyne; and so, just as I got it to my own liking, after tasting pretty often, ... — The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper |