Frying

Examples

• Mrs. Sparsit sat in her afternoon apartment at the Bank, on the shadier side of the frying street. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The whole town seemed to be frying in oil. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the Fire and the Frying Pan to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You must rub the place with the fat of other adders, and the only way to get that is by frying them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Or would you rather smell frying bacon in the morning when you are hungry? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But I had been formerly a great lover of fish, and when it came out of the frying-pan it smelled admirably well. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Clym had by this time lit a small fire, and despatched Susan Nunsuch for a frying pan. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• On this little stove, herewith illustrated (Fig. 12), minor cooking operations can be performed, such as frying, boiling, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He could smell food now in the cave, the smell of oil and of onions and of meat frying and his stomach moved with hunger inside of him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Susan now arrived with the frying pan, when the live adder was killed and the heads of the three taken off. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I suppose--I never ventured to inquire, but I suppose--that Mrs. Crupp, after frying the soles, was taken ill. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He put some eggs in a frying pan, and stood pensively prying slabs of meat from between his teeth with a fork. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is also very serviceable for frying hot cakes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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