1 But have some mutton, friend Chichikov.
2 When I eat pork at a meal, give me the WHOLE pig; when mutton, the WHOLE sheep; when goose, the WHOLE of the bird.
3 And he proceeded to put precept into practice by taking half the shoulder of mutton on to his plate, and then devouring it down to the last morsel of gristle and bone.
4 The only difference is that circumstances, as they stand, permit of your polishing off a stuffed shoulder of mutton at a meal; whereas in St. Petersburg you would have been unable to do so.
5 "Captain, there is soup and a leg of mutton in the kitchen," said he.
6 In the passage of the small watchhouse a Cossack with sleeves rolled up was chopping some mutton.
7 On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.
8 One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down.
9 The administration of mutton instead of medicine, the substitution of Tea for Joe, and the baker for bacon, were among the mildest of my own mistakes.
10 It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
11 He was so polite as to stop at a public-house, expressly on our account, and entertain us with broiled mutton and beer.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 12 I merely provided a pair of soles, a small leg of mutton, and a pigeon-pie.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 13 Meanwhile he took the mutton off the gridiron, and gravely handed it round.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 14 But veal is dear, and everybody in the house is sick of beef and mutton.
15 For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.