A stick of horseradish, a bottle of mint-sauce well corked, a bottle of salad dressing, a bottle of vinegar, made mustard, pepper, salt, good oil, and pounded sugar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On the other hand the unmistakable bubbling note of the mint-sauce will not be heard for another month or so. ❋ Various (N/A)
Sierras, in California, I found a wooded bluff -- you looked a thousand feet straight down to a clear lake, green as mint-sauce pretty nearly, not a wrinkle on it. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Far away from the greystone wings, the dark cedars, the faultless gravel drives, and the mint-sauce lawns of Holt Hangars runs a river called the Hudson, whose unkempt banks are covered with the palaces of those wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
I remember your pushing it to extreme lengths in a poem entreating people not to mention mint-sauce when conversing with a lamb. ❋ Various (1898)
In my musings it seems to me to be almost idyllic to have known a spring chicken in his infancy; to have watched a hind-quarter of lamb gambolling about its native heath before its muscles became adamant, and before chopped-up celery tops steeped in vinegar were poured upon it in the hope of hypnotizing boarders into the belief that spring lamb and mint-sauce lay before them. ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)
Mr. Trinder never could remember afterwards whether it was lamb or mutton he had eaten; he had a vague idea that Dulce had handed him the mint-sauce, and that he had declined it and helped himself to salad. ❋ Rosa Nouchette Carey (1874)
In the afternoon we proceeded fifteen miles farther, to the half-way house, where on my first arrival in the colony I had been initiated into the art of cooking a saddle of kangaroo, and serving it up with mint-sauce. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)
_lamb_, in any form, which requires delicate dressing, and is admirably adapted for concocting mint-sauce, which delightful adjunct Lord Melbourne may, ere long, find some little difficulty in procuring. ❋ Various (N/A)
Jacob, you get atop of my back and catch hold of me tight round the neck, and whenever a Little Bethel parson calls you a precious lamb or says your brother's one, you tell him it's the truest things he's said for a twelvemonth, and that if he'd got a little more of the lamb himself, and less of the mint-sauce -- not being quite so sharp and sour over it -- I should like him all the better. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Now you look as if you'd never seen Little Bethel in all your life, as I hope you never will again; and here's the baby; and little Jacob, you get atop of my back and catch hold of me tight round the neck, and whenever a Little Bethel parson calls you a precious lamb or says your brother's one, you tell him it's the truest things he's said for a twelvemonth, and that if he'd got a little more of the lamb himself, and less of the mint-sauce -- not being quite so sharp and sour over it -- I should like him all the better. ❋ Unknown (1800)
Man 1: mate with this job youll be [minted], then you can use it to get sauced!
Man 2: [allll] about [the mint] sauce dear friend ❋ Boney M (2011)
