Breakfast on water-gruel, sooner done; fills one up in a second. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Should I doom you to water-gruel as a dunce, would not my subsequent remorse make me want it myself as a madman? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Water-cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water-gruel, and water-milk; too many land-babies do so likewise. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is the batter-pudding, water-gruel of old age. ❋ Unknown (2006)
At Christ Church, one of our tutors was the celebrated lamented Otto Rose, who would have been a bishop under the present Government, had not an immoderate indulgence in water-gruel cut short his elegant and useful career. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Of course: and hence the fidelity to water-gruel announced a few pages back. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This I know, that were I to have continued but one week more in the way I was in when I wrote the latter part of it, I should have been confined, and in straw, the next; for I now recollect, that all my distemper was returning upon me with irresistible violence — and that in spite of water-gruel and soup-meagre. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He wondered (he remarked parenthetically) what noodle first made it the fashion to teach women French: nothing was more improper for them; it was like feeding a rickety child on chalk and water-gruel; Caroline must give it up, and give up her cousins too: they were dangerous people. ❋ Unknown (2004)
What is The Good – Natured Man but a poor, water-gruel dramatic dose? ❋ Unknown (2004)
I eat nothing but water-gruel; am very weak; but out of all violent pain. ❋ Unknown (2003)
To effect this desideratum, therefore, they toast the grain to blackness, boil it to bitterness, and then drink scalding stuff of the consistency of water-gruel. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He bled her, and he told me to let her live on whey and water-gruel, and take care she did not throw herself downstairs or out of the window; and then he left: for he had enough to do in the parish, where two or three miles was the ordinary distance between cottage and cottage. ❋ Unknown (2002)
_That "strain" again_; as the Poor-law Commissioner generously said to the water-gruel sieve. ❋ Various (N/A)
The poor of _Sweden_ live on hard bread, salted or dried fish, water-gruel, and beer. ❋ Various (N/A)
When Aunt Deborah is laid up with one of _her_ colds she always has a wonderful accession of "propriety" accompanying the disorder; and that which would appear to her at the worst a harmless _escapade_ when in her usual health and spirits becomes a crime of the blackest dye when seen through the medium of barley-broth and water-gruel -- these being ❋ G. J. Whyte-Melville (N/A)
He may guzzle as much wine as he pleases, talk bawdy if he thinks fit; but he may as well drink water-gruel, and go twice a day to church, for it will never do. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)
Off with you to the town, and when your fish are once sold, you may make yourself -- some water-gruel. ' ❋ Various (N/A)
The beggar in England without his limbs seemed fortunate to the Virginian who had to live day after day on a scant ration of peas, water-gruel, and a small portion of bread. ❋ Thomas Proctor Hughes (N/A)
Then begin to pour in all sorts of worthy, but alarming and indiscreet persons, -- they who accost one in the street declaring one is so changed, and doesn't look fit to be out, -- they who invidiously inquire if you take any solid food, as if one walked the world on water-gruel, -- they who come to try to make you comfortable while you _do_ live. ❋ Various (N/A)
I will see him again early in the morning; and in the meantime let him be kept extremely quiet and drink liberally of water-gruel. ❋ Unknown (1917)
