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Example sentences for "large family"

  • When one has a large family it brings all kinds of meat considerably cheaper to buy large pieces untrimmed, as the trimmings can be used for soups, stews, etc.

  • When the shoulder-blade is taken out the quarter makes a good roast for a large family.

  • If one has a large family a great saving is made by purchasing the greater portion of one's groceries at wholesale.

  • It makes a fine roast for a large family, but for a moderate-sized or small one either the leg or loin alone is better.

  • The hind quarter consists of the loin, rump, round, tenderloin or fillet of beef, leg and flank.

  • Have the vegetables (except the potatoes), cut quite fine, and when the pork is cooked, put the vegetables into the pot with it.

  • This is the whole wheat just crushed or cut like the coarse oat meal, but unlike the meal.

  • They would have liked a large family themselves, but seeing that Providence had only seen fit to bestow on them one child, they looked upon the six grandchildren as an attempt to make amends.

  • He was by temperament quite unfitted to be either a country squire or the father of a large family.

  • Above all, was he singularly unable to bear with equanimity the strain upon his income such a large family entailed.

  • He has a large family, to whom any pecuniary recompense will be of service; but as two other pilots exerted themselves, one on board the Druid, and the other in this ship, I hope they will also be considered.

  • Not but my father is a worthy, fine old gentleman, but the estates are entailed; he is obliged to keep up his position in society, and he has a large family to provide for, and he can do no more.

  • Fitz was only fifteen, but he and Margaret seemed older than their years, as is not unusual with the youngest members of a large family.

  • He had a large family, and it was getting too small for them, but he unexpectedly came into a property elsewhere, and then my father gave me this place.

  • Miss Ellen Nussey was one of a large family of children, all of whom she survives.

  • The father of the boy, who was poor and had a large family, seeing himself near death, had thought of having his unfortunate son maimed so that he should become the support of his brothers with his voice.

  • As for eatables, enough was sent in every day for six persons; we gave all our surplus to our keeper, who had a large family.

  • His father, who was a poor violin player, as I had once been, with a large family to provide for, excited my pity.

  • Now, how much garden ground does it require to supply even a large family with garden vegetables?

  • The man with a large family has, if it be not in a great measure his own fault, a greater number of pleasures and of blessings than other men.

  • Matthew Locke, one of the first settlers of Rowan county, and the patriarchal head of a large family, was born in 1730.

  • Soon after the Revolutionary war he purchased a valuable track of land on Upper creek, five miles northwest of Morganton, on which he settled and raised a large family.

  • He raised a large family, all of whom have passed away, falling mostly as victims of consumption.

  • After the war, Captain Caldwell settled on a farm three miles southwest of Tuckaseege Ford where he raised a large family.

  • The above ingredients make a large family pudding; for a small one, half the quantity would be found ample; but it must be baked quite 1-1/2 hour.

  • Whortleberries make a very good common pie, where there is a large family of children.

  • If you have a large family, it is well to keep white rags separate from colored ones, and cotton separate from woollen; they bring a higher price.

  • Mr and Mrs Connor have a large family, I believe--a number of young children.

  • I don't know of any near relations he has left, except ourselves; but he was even more intimate with his wife's people than his own, and she belonged to a large family.

  • I hate a large family, where there is never any privacy or repose.

  • Ever after this adventure, I was a welcome visitant at Locherben; and Nanny Telfer who is now the mistress of a large family, and has servants of her own, patronises me to a very considerable extent.

  • Into this, Neptune and I thrust our noses, and found a large family of children gathered around a blazing peat fire.


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