"Rice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Tarzan (METHUEN) is the fourth of a Tarzan series by Mr. EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, who specialises in an exciting brand of hero, half ape, half man. Tarzan pere had been suckled and reared by a proud ape foster-mother, and after many jungle adventures had settled down as Lord Greystoke. This latest instalment ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919 • Various
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... were on the table, two poached eggs, a bowl of rice, another of French beans, and a ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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... bread, and some hard biscuits, also cut tobacco and paper for cigarettes and some leaf tobacco for cigars. When all these things had been given him, he was asked (not ironically) if there was anything else we could supply him with, and he replied, Yes, he was still in want of rice, flour, and farina, an onion or two, a head or two of garlic, also salt, pepper, and pimento, or red pepper. And when he had received all these comestibles and felt them safely packed in his saddle-bags, he returned thanks, bade good-bye in the most dignified ...
— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson
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... Owsley to supply Hannah Rice & two children, the family of James Rice, who died in ...
— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head
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... steamers are among the very best that float—quiet, commodious, clean, fresh as if just built, and furnished with civil and ready-handed waiters. We passed along the narrow and winding channels which divide the broad islands of South Carolina from the main-land—islands famed for the rice culture, and particularly for the excellent cotton with long fibres, named the sea-island cotton. Our fellow-passengers were mostly planters of these islands, and their families, persons of remarkably courteous, ...
— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant
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