sucking-pigs

We have a litter of sucking-pigs, excellently choice and white, six weeks old, come Friday.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Even as when we keep a roaster of the sucking-pigs, we choose, and praise at table most, the favourite of its mother.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

PORK-GRISKINS, sucking-pigs; also broiled loin of pork.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

I remember their flat down to the smallest detail, and all those ladies who have all grown so much older here; and the whole household, and how Andronikov himself used to bring the provisions, poultry, fish, and sucking-pigs from the town in a fish-basket.

A Raw Youth 2003

You children, little sucking-pigs, to my thinking ...

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Over the altar the statue of Famine, veiled; a number of boars, sows, and sucking-pigs, crowned with thistle, shamrock, and oak, sitting on the steps, and clinging round the altar of the temple.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Momentarily the old man came into his mind, and then again the sow he had meant to kill when she had finished with the sucking-pigs.

Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

The harp, as the song explained, had the power of luring pigeons, rabbits, wild geese, lambs, sucking-pigs and even fish from the stewponds, into its owner's dinner-pot, so that Orpheus never lacked for good living and became very fat.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

He could buy with it the whole town, and the sugar sucking-pigs of the cake woman, and all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the whole world.

The Tinder-Box 1909

He could buy with it the whole town, and the sugar sucking-pigs of the cake woman, and all the tin soldiers, whips, and rocking-horses in the whole world.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906