"Margarine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for which Denmark is famous. The value of the butter for export reaches nearly 40% of the total value of Danish exports. A small proportion of the whole is imported chiefly from Russia (also Siberia) and Sweden and re-exported as of foreign origin. The production of margarine is large, but not much is exported, margarine being largely consumed in Denmark instead of butter, which is exported. Next to butter the most important article of Danish export is bacon, and huge quantities of eggs are also exported. Exports of less value, but ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 - "Demijohn" to "Destructor" • Various
... and margarine, and drank water from our bottles, cigarettes went round, and we charged ahead. In front was the professor falling off his horse and ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon
... maintained manzana, apple manana, to-morrow, the morning maquina a vapor, steam engine maquinaria, machinery mar alborotada, heavy sea maravillar, to surprise maravillarse, to wonder marca, mark, brand marcharse, to go away margarina, margarine marido, husband mariscos, shell fish marmol, marble martes, Tuesday martillos, hammers Marzo, March mas, but mas, more mas adelante, later on material rodante, rolling-stock (el) matiz, shade of colour matute, smuggling Mayo, May mayor, larger mayormente, ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... patience. Though he earned a very good amount, he was badly dressed and looked as if he did not get sufficient food; his breakfast, which he ate together with the others in the workshop, generally consisted of bread and margarine, and he quenched his thirst at the water-tap. At first the others made fun of his prison fare, but he soon taught them to mind their own business: it was not safe to offend him. Part of his earnings he used for agitation, ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... sunbeams. There wasn't a better bargainer in all Shoreditch than Mrs. Reed, but to-day her purchases were very small—a couple of Spanish onions, half a pound of American cheese, some bread, a tiny portion of margarine—and she had expended ...
— Good Luck • L. T. Meade
... the breakfast table in the canal-boat, and served us with rye-bread, margarine, and coffee, gave us hard looks, which made us think her heart was still in the fatherland. Conversation was naturally difficult, because no one of them could speak English, but we began to ask about Rotterdam, for we knew that that would be the port from which ...
— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung
... the variety of occupations in Norway is certainly great, and there are other industries besides those already mentioned. There is, for example, a considerable trade in skins and furs, in condensed milk, butter, and margarine, and in certain minerals and chemicals. Employment is found also for many men on the railways—in road-making, in boat and shipbuilding, in timber-dressing, in mechanical engineering, in slate-quarrying, in stone-cutting, ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Norway • A.F. Mockler-Ferryman |
