mutton-broth

‘In truth an angel of the church,’ she said to herself as she chopped up the onions for the mutton-broth; and ever afterwards she regarded Mr Thumble as an

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

It was no doubt great fun to Her Majesty to put up with the accommodation of a third-rate provincial inn, where 'a ringleted woman did everything 'in the way of waiting at table, and where in place of soup there was mutton-broth with vegetables,' which I did not much relish. '

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

"And 'twas to make mutton-broth for the pup she dhrove Darcy's sheep in the lake, I suppose?"

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

It was no doubt great fun to Her Majesty to put up with the accommodation of a third-rate provincial inn, where 'a ringleted woman did everything 'in the way of waiting at table, and where in place of soup there was mutton-broth with vegetables,' which I did not much relish. '

Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

Henry noticed that Colton was not accompanied with his mutton-broth economy.

The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

Jack seemed to have got rid of his cough; he slept all night, and in the morning, after he'd drunk a pint of mutton-broth that Peter had made in one of the billies, he was all right -- except that he was quiet and ashamed.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Danny had blundered on, this far, somehow; he was the last in the world who could have told how, and had managed to light a fire; then he lay with his head on his swag and enjoyed nips of whisky in judicious doses and at reasonable intervals, and later on a tot of mutton-broth, which he made in one of the billies.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Methought they frisked and fattened in the joy of their deliverance from the shadow of Mrs.A. 's slave-jail, and gladly contemplated translation into mutton-broth for sick or wounded soldiers.

Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson, Thomas W 1869

Bolingbroke is acting the temperate recluse, having nothing for dinner but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barndoor fowl.

Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868

Methought they frisked and fattened in the joy of their deliverance from the shadow of Mrs.A. 's slave-jail, and gladly contemplated translation into mutton-broth for sick or wounded soldiers.

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867