As before, he put his left arm round the sick man's head, raised him up and gave him tea in spoonfuls, again blowing each spoonful steadily and earnestly, as though this process was the principal and most effective means towards his friend's recovery.
We had to give you tea in spoonfuls. I brought Zossimov to see you twice.
The doctor produced another
spoonful of the elixir of life, and gravely repeated his first address to me.
How they must despise us men, who require to sit quiet for a couple of hours after dining off a
spoonful of clear soup and the wing of a chicken!
Lay siege to the church, burst in the doors, drag out the beautiful girl, save her from the judges, save her from the priests, dismantle the cloister, burn the bishop in his palace--all this we will do in less time than it takes for a burgomaster to eat a
spoonful of soup.
Captain Van Horn gave him, first of all, a pannikin of oatmeal mush, generously flooded with condensed cream and sweetened with a heaping
spoonful of sugar.
Swallow a
spoonful of sody, an' you'll sweeten up wonderful an' be more pleasant company."
Now they were all beautiful, and all exactly alike: but he was told that the eldest had eaten a piece of sugar, the next some sweet syrup, and the youngest a
spoonful of honey; so he was to guess which it was that had eaten the honey.
However Bruno instantly put a large spoonful of soup into its mouth, and the poor little thing coughed violently for some time.
I only ventured to take one spoonful of it ("Sylvie's Summer-Soup," Bruno said it was), and must candidly confess that it was not at all nice; and I could not feel surprised that so many of the guests had kept their mouths shut up tight.
"What's the soup made of, Bruno?" said Sylvie, who had put a spoonful of it to her lips, and was making a wry face over it.
Fill the leaves with a
spoonful of mince and a
spoonful of rice, wrap the leaves around the filling, secure with a cocktail stick and place in an ovenproof dish.
First, a
spoonful of wormwood to kill off all the worms that could have entered the body since the previous Friday.
And to help the medicine go down, there'll be more than a
spoonful of sugar in the form of free dental checks for all, free eye checks for all and free access to swimming pools for children.''
Add the vanilla with the last
spoonful. Fold in the pistachios using a large metal spoon.
