Gruel

Examples

• In one hand he bore a light, in the other a receptacle containing a gruel-like mixture--the common prison fare of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I must really be allowed to digest my gruel. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To soothe her mother's anxiety she submitted to a basin of gruel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You must go to bed early, my dearand I recommend a little gruel to you before you go. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Briggs too well heard the creaking Firkin descend the stairs, and the clink of the spoon and gruel-basin the neglected female carried. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Give it a little gruel if it is. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Hannah says you have had nothing but some gruel since breakfast. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That is the kind of gruel which has been served out from Palestine for ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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