turtle-soup

‘Get the gentleman a towel for his hands, and serve him a basin of turtle-soup,’ roared the monster, who was sitting, or rather squatting, on the deck opposite me; and as he spoke he suddenly seized my beaker of grog and emptied it, in the midst of another burst of applause.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

It was real turtle-soup: the first time I had ever tasted it; and I remarked how Mrs. B., who insisted on helping it, gave all the green lumps of fat to her husband, and put several slices of the breast of the bird under the body, until it came to his turn to be helped.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

Oh, what floods of turtle-soup, what tons of turbot and lobster-sauce must have been sacrificed to make those sinners properly miserable.

George Cruikshank 2006

We returned after dark, had turtle-soup and turtle-steak, not near so good as veal, which it much resembles, for dinner; sang

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Turtles are so abundant that turtle-soup is anything but a luxury, and turtle flesh is ordinarily sold in the meat shops.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

Not being fond of this civic dainty, I partook of it but once, and then only in accordance with the wise maxim, always to taste a fruit, a wine, or a celebrated dish, at its indigenous site; and the very fountain-head of turtle-soup, I suppose, is in the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

He is not merely a very stout gentleman, wearing a blue gown, and guzzling enormous quantities of turtle-soup.

The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen

We did not experiment upon the turtle-soup, as we had been advised to do at the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

He thought of all those underground benefactions in which he himself had acted as almoner -- the bank-notes to poverty, the Sandeman's port and the evaporated turtle-soup to sickness.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray