1 When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE 2 So up she ran from the cellar; and sure enough the rascally cur had got the steak in his mouth, and was making off with it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE 3 Away ran Catherine, and away ran the dog across the field: but he ran faster than she, and stuck close to the steak.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE 4 That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
5 About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
6 Well," said Stubb, helping himself freely meanwhile; "I shall now go back to the subject of this steak.
7 I hope the steak may be beef, but I don't believe it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 8 I meekly ordered a bit of fish and a steak, and stood before the fire musing on his obscurity.
9 And now I am afraid Campbell will be here before there is time to dress a steak, and we have no butcher at hand.
10 She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.
11 Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night, Mr. Bumble sat himself down in the house at which the coach stopped; and took a temperate dinner of steaks, oyster sauce, and porter.