1 Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
2 From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 3 On the table was spread a snow-white tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 4 First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feathers.
5 The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.
6 She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and towards evening set them before the fire, that they might roast.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CLEVER GRETEL 7 Then the woman served up four different things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 8 The two brothers wanted to catch two, and roast them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE QUEEN BEE 9 The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 10 Then, in spite of the failure of his first search, he began a second, after having told Gaetano to roast one of the two kids.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 11 Nay, devils shall roast you, sure enough.
12 That done, the servants applied themselves to bringing in various comestibles under covers, through which could be heard the hissing of hot roast viands.
13 After the roast Vassily Ivanovitch disappeared for an instant, and returned with an opened half-bottle of champagne.
14 The devil knows, but it isn't roast beef.
15 It's roast iron, not roast beef.