stew

• He made large cavities in Jim's great pot of potato stew, and caused biscuits to vanish in a way that would not have shamed a Hindoo magician. —  The Last of the Plainsmen
• The food consisted of a stew, apparently of kid's flesh, a roasted bird about the size of, and somewhat similar in flavour to, a duck, roasted yams, ears of green maize, boiled, and a dish of some kind of bean which both pronounced delicious; indeed the meal as a whole was excellent, and was done full justice to by both participants. —  In Search of El Dorado
• So it was merry little Barrett who alone mentioned the occasion that for a moment had brought the strangers of the wilderness together and had made them brothers We'll be coming back again when we want a taste of Becky's good stew--and a blessing afterwards," he jested as he swung himself into his saddle and reached down to shake hands with Mordecai Or to build another gin if the Indians do not molest this one and drive me off," answered Mordecai lightly, but the jest lingered in his mind. —  The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country
• I'll bet he could eat himself full of dog stew, and lay around three days without stirring Jim Leonard thought the fellows had come along to pity him and help him; but when he heard Archy Hawkins say that, and Hen Billard began to splutter and choke with the laugh he was holding in, he flung them off and began to fight at them with his fists, and strike right and left blindly. —  The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story
• The dinner consisted of Irish stew--Marian's favourite dish. —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn

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