"Broth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anxiety, which showed that it was the coming of death itself that she dreaded, rather than the loss of her husband. The old woman was busy at the fire-place, airing linen, and preparing some mess of broth which it was not likely the patient would ever eat. The sick man lay with his head propped up by pillows, his coarse face deadly pale, and his great hands wandering uneasily about the coverlet. Phoebe had been reading to him, for an open Testament lay among the medicine ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... tops of the common nettle are still made by the peasantry into nettle-broth, and, amongst other directions enjoined in an old Scotch rhyme, it is to be cut in the month of June, "ere it's ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... will you permit me to send you a little mulligatawny?" said Captain Drawlock: "If you prefer it, there is sheep's head broth at the ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... they had finished supper, Ali Baba, charging Morgiana afresh to take care of his guest, said to her, "To-morrow morning I design to go to the bath before day; take care my bathing linen be ready, give them to Abdalla (which was the slave's name), and make me some good broth against my return." After this he went ...
— Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know • Various
... where we found old Tosh making the witches' broth," and Nort looked closely at his brother to see what was attracting his attention. "I mean in Smugglers' Glen," went on Nort, for Dick had not turned. "What you ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley - or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery • Willard F. Baker
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