...he Noble Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 The Adventure o... ... silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimm... ...ou, I presume?” “Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple cooking and keeps the place clean — that’s all I have in the house, for... ...ridge.’ Here is the account: “Between nine and ten last night Police Constable Cook, of the H Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for ... ...lve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.” The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 189 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 11 H OLMES,” said ... ...pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but 11 “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” The Strand May 1892 pp. 511 525 190 The Adventures of S... ...being able to find remunerative investments for our funds The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 191 as upon our increasing our connection and the number ...

...Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, 170 -- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 189 -- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, 210...

...age, and with eagles crown’d: 140 Of bright, transparent beryl were the walls, The friezes gold, and gold the capitals: As heaven wi... ...rld will judge of men and books, Not from the Burnets, 100 Oldmixons, and Cookes. Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure description... ...r stops, for one bad cork, his butler’s pay; Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away; Nor lets, like Naevius, every error pass, The musty wine, foul c... ...nty pound a-year. Mere wax as yet, you fashion him with ease, Your barber, cook, upholsterer, what you please: 10 A perfect genius at an ...

...nk with a hundred companions into a vat of boiling water, there to be half cooked for a few minutes. The cans bulged slightly af- ter the operation, a... ...ent off spasmodically, and others lay dead still in sheets of sapphire and beryl. Would you believe that even these terrible creatures have to be guar... ...ed through the camp amid a shower of mild chaff. They were on their way to Cook City, I fancy, and I know that they never washed. But they were pictur...

...ntly his soul arose from its prostration, and he cried, ‘Wullahy! the head cook of King Shamshureen could have worked no better as regards the restora... ... thy beauty, yea! raging. And I have a friend in his palace, even an under-cook, acute in the interpreting of wishes. There was he always gabbling of ... ...es. There was he always gabbling of thy case, O my Princess, till the head-cook seized hold on it, and so it went to the chamberlain, thence to the ch... ...to the King. Now from the King the tracking of this tale went to the under-cook down again, and from him to me. So was I sum- moned to the King, and t... ...usky splendour and the faint sparkle of gems, ruby, am- ethyst, topaz, and beryl; in it there was the hush of sleep, and the heart of Shibli Bagarag t... ...ith rice, sweetmeats, preserves, palateable mixtures, and monuments of the cook’s art, goblets of wine like liquid ru- bies. Then one of the youths sa...

...e village said, “Think you he will stay with us?” and each did her best to cook the most savoury meal for the Bhagat. Hill-food is very simple, but wi... ... get merit, trudged up the path; but, more often, it was the woman who had cooked the meal overnight; and she would murmur, hardly above her breath. “... ... the fields unusually early, and that, instead of getting to their evening cooking, they gathered in a crowd under the village tree, and chattered, an... ...more Mowgli stared, as he had stared at the rebellious cubs, full into the beryl-green eyes till the red glare behind their 49 Rudyard Kipling green ... ... sleigh-runners, rod-iron for harpoon-tips, steel knives, tin kettles that cooked food much better than the old soap-stone affairs, flint and steel, a... ...land Sounds; and so the chain went on, till a kettle picked up by a ship’s cook in the Bhendy Bazaar might end its days over a blubber-lamp somewhere ...

... Till the yellow eye has grown mild, For larder and spit are bare, The old cook enraged, The scullion gone wild.’ ‘I will not be clapped in a hood, No... ...rtes. When all the dough has been so kneaded up That it can take what form cook Nature fancies, The first thin crescent is wheeled round once more. Ahe... ...e that’s set On a storm bitten green. I scrub its floors and make my bed, I cook and change my plate, The post and garden boy alone Have keys to my old... ...ke when the winds roar, Old bones upon the mountain shake. The tower’s old cook that must climb and clamber Catching small birds in the dew of the mor... ...ails. Came Blanid, Mac Nessa, tall Fergus who feastward of old time slunk, Cook Barach, the traitor; and warward, the spittle on his beard never dry, ... ...ngeless thing, Like charmed apples made of chrysoprase, Or chrysoberyl, or beryl, or chrysolite; And there, in juggleries of sight and sense, Become o...

...in I found an allied but smaller and apparently different species. Captain Cook, in his third voyage, remarks, that the sailors gave to this appearanc... ...e and fearless a bird. The sealers say that the flesh of these birds, when cooked, is quite white, and very good eating; but bold must the man be who ... ...ises, and thought it was a not full- grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, leg... ... of the footsteps, how far tired; by the manner in which the food has been cooked, whether the pursued trav- elled in haste; by the general appearance... ...ted tails and short front legs much resemble great rats. Their flesh, when cooked, is very white and good, but it is seldom used. *The bizcacha (Lagos... ...dge. It is scarcely possible to imagine any- thing more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the de...