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  • He tenderized the quail kebab in milk and encased it in a beguiling peach pestil.

    NYT > Global Home By LIESL SCHILLINGER 2011

  • He tenderized the quail kebab in milk and encased it in a beguiling peach pestil.

    NYT > Home Page By LIESL SCHILLINGER 2011

  • ` ` And ye had potter tell your father, puir body, to get his beasts a in order, and put his tamn'd Cameronian nonsense out o 'his head for twa or three days, if he can pe so opliging; for fan I speak to him apout prute pestil, he answers me out o' the Pible, whilk is not using a shentleman weel, unless it be a person of your cloth, Mr.Putler. ''

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • "And ye had potter tell your father, puir body, to get his beasts a 'in order, and put his tamn'd Cameronian nonsense out o' his head for twa or three days, if he can pe so opliging; for fan I speak to him apout prute pestil, he answers me out o 'the Pible, whilk is not using a shentleman weel, unless it be a person of your cloth, Mr. Putler."

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • When I had finished this, I made a great pestil of iron wood, and then laid them up against my succeeding harvest.

    The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Here indeed I was at a great loss, as not being fit for a stone-cutter; and many days I spent to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow and make fit for a morter, and strong enough to bear the weight of a pestil, and that would break the corn without filling it with sand.

    The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) Daniel Defoe 1696

  • While the general sanitary conditions in our cities and towns may be justly regarded as favor - able to protection against widespread invasion of pestil - ence, careful and thorough inspection should be at once enforced.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Cameronian nonsense out o’ his head for twa or three days, if he can pe so opliging; for fan I speak to him apout prute pestil, he answers me out o’ the Pible, whilk is not using a shentleman weel, unless it be a person of your cloth, Mr. Putler.”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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