"Unshelled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Michael doubted. She had only pointed out the disabilities he made for himself. She did not know what he was capable of in the way of happiness. But he thought, though without self-consciousness, how delightful it would be to show himself, the new, unshelled self, to ...
— Michael • E. F. Benson
... of shrimps; pick them clean, wash them, and put them into half a pint of good melted butter. A pint of unshelled shrimps is about ...
— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner
... beans like horsebeans soaked and boiled as opposed to the "Ful Mudammas" (esp. of Egypt)unshelled beans steamed and boiled all night and eaten with linseed oil as "kitchen" or relish. Lane (M.E., chaps. v.) calls them after the debased Cairene pronunciation, Mudemmes. A legend says that, before the days of Pharaoh (always he of Moses), the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... the vaulted roof, were a great number of poles, like the perches of a hen-roost, and here were suspended weapons, clothing, skins, and ornaments. Here, too, in harvest time, the squaws hung the ears of unshelled corn, till the rude abode, through all its length, seemed decked with a golden tapestry. In general, however, its only lining was a thick coating of soot from the smoke of fires with neither draught, chimney, nor window. So pungent was the ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman
... may possess equally as high or even higher oil content and kernel quality than the southern sorts. The better varieties of this group, however, rank high enough to compete favorably on the markets of the country in both shelled and unshelled state with ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various |
