Roasted

Examples

• From that day to this we have eaten roasted pork. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The venison was roasted to a turn--and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I am quite roasted. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He looked to see what it could be, and--behold, he saw that it was the remains of Scraps, who had been lost in the burning house and roasted as perhaps never has a pig been roasted since. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Yet, after all, do not epicures hold the simplicity of a well-roasted leg of mutton to be a dish fit for a king. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He came back with a handful of roasted coffee beans. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Their grain they roasted, ground between stones and stored in pots, to be eaten when needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another article which Father Porter sent me was an uncooked Jamaica pigeon; it was roasted at Beaumont College. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The sun has roasted us, almost. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• As most people have discovered, the nuts have a much more agreeable taste after being roasted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was all rocky: however I got many birds' eggs; and, striking fire, I kindled some heath and dry sea-weed, by which I roasted my eggs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Editor: Vicky