pettitoes

• “To the great relief of Mrs. Sanders, Sam was allowed to depart without any reference, on the part of the hostess, to the pettitoes and toasted cheese; to which the ladies, with such juvenile assistance as Master”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “It is a most unworthy thing for men that have bones in them to spend their lives in making fiddle-cases for futilous women's fancies; which are the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys ....”

  Woman's Life in Colonial Days

• “There, negroes and negresses break it up with long poles armed with hard-wood head, trampling it under their delicate pettitoes to such an extent as to give rise to the question whether sugar-tongs are not a useless invention.”

  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

• “Suffice it, as a specimen, that three pettitoes of an unfortunate roasting-pig, or rather pigling, which I fear must have died a natural death, formed the most substantial part of our repast.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “_ _My clown_ (who wants but something to be a reasonable man) grew so in love with the wenches '_song_, that he would not stir his pettitoes, _till he had both tune and words_.”

  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

• “Next, he calls the women's tailor-made gowns "the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys.”

  History of American Literature

• “Drink-without-Thirst, was no doubt in want of some pettitoes.”

  L'Assommoir

• “At mother Louis ', whilst they sucked the little bones of the pettitoes, they again fell to abusing the employers.”

  L'Assommoir

• “Pieds de cochon à la Sainte Menehould, pig's pettitoes seasoned,”

  Paris and Northern France

• “Put the liver, heart, and pettitoes into a stewpan with the bacon, mace, peppercorns, thyme, onion, and gravy, and simmer these gently for 1/4 hour; then take out the heart and liver, and mince them very fine.”

  The Book of Household Management

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