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Example sentences for "pepper"

Lexicographically close words:
peple; peplos; peplum; peplus; pepo; peppercorns; peppered; pepperers; peppering; peppermint
  1. Foist he'd rub up his two lamps wit' pepper till dey looks red an', out of line.

  2. Scrambled Eggs Butter size of hickory nut 1 egg 1 tablespoonful of cold water Pinch of salt, dash of pepper Heat in frying pan, melt butter in it, break egg in cup (be sure of its freshness).

  3. A little dash of red pepper and a bit of salt improve the taste.

  4. Add 1/2 teaspoonful of prepared mustard, a dash of paprika, dash of pepper and 1/2 cup of olive oil.

  5. The witch or wizard whom he fears can no more pass over that pepper leaf with its red pods than the Irish fairy can dare the holly leaf with its red berries.

  6. The native doctor holds cayenne pepper in his mouth, and, on completing the operation, spits the pepper upon the wound.

  7. The superstitious African Negro does precisely the same thing to-day, because he believes in witchcraft; the holly bush not growing in his tropical air, he has substituted the cayenne pepper bush.

  8. Every hedge is at this season gay with coffee blossom, but it is too early in the year for the pepper or the cotton to be in beauty.

  9. From the pepper gardens we rode on to a convent at the farther extremity of the town, and overlooking both the bays, above and below the peninsula of Bon fin, or N.

  10. It is not many years since Francisco da Cunha and Menezes sent the pepper plant from Goa for these gardens, which were afterwards enlarged by him, when he became governor of Bahia.

  11. The chile sauce was so hot with red pepper that you would have thought that Pancho must have had a tin throat in order to swallow it at all; but he was used to it, and never even winked his eyes when it went down.

  12. He thought it was worse than the red pepper and the gold paint he had taken that morning.

  13. And then she made him swallow a large piece of red pepper because she was afraid the paint would disagree with him.

  14. They had been quite successful in this latter industry for several years in my school, and at once proceeded to try the same tactics with me.

  15. At length a brilliant thought flashed across the mind of the doctor.

  16. I dreamed that the clock of fate had struck the hour for me, that I had found my mission on earth, and that henceforth the "Peace be still" of the Master would calm life's troubled sea.

  17. It seemed a hopeless task to endeavor to inspire such impoverished souls, and I retired in despair, to accept the principalship of the ancient academy in the village.

  18. Finally, when I had spent my last cent for a beggarly meal, I saw an advertisement for a teacher in the reform school, and called on a Mr. Atterbury, the trustee.

  19. One vine is found on Roanoke Island, which is two miles in length, covers several acres of land, and was planted by Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, centuries ago.

  20. I protested in vain, and, as the daughter was invisible, I left the house in a rage.

  21. I established a society called the "Class of Honor," which soon comprised my entire family.

  22. Every now and then the Rip Van Winkle machinery breaks down, and for hours we are motionless, listening per force to the terrific cursing and pounding in the Vulcanic realms below.

  23. But we must descend from the sublime to the stern realities of this workaday world.

  24. Let 'em see as you know how ter pepper 'em with lead, and keep at it with your guns till we're pretty close and handy.

  25. A little salt should always be added, and in winter a slight sprinkling of pepper is good.

  26. Boiled rice, with a little chalk and cayenne pepper mixed, will also check the complaint.

  27. Mr. Wright advises half a grain of cayenne pepper with half a grain of powdered allspice in a bolus of the meal, or one of Baily's roup pills to be given daily.

  28. Hong Kong, or Jericho, or, to speak idiomatically, "where the pepper grows.

  29. Cause I never was able to get smoking tobacco strong enough to suit me, and to make it taste snappy I always put a little red pepper in my pipe.

  30. Nobody in the world but me puts red pepper in his tobacco.

  31. I picked up the speck of red pepper and microscoped it, and I saw that along one edge it was sort of brown, where it had been burned a little.

  32. I'd certainly like an answer to that," Pepper the surgeon said.

  33. The rector was enthusiastic but indolent, Pepper an old friend.

  34. Pepper or Bagenal the brewer, or even the saddler, until he had considered what face he would put on Peel's latest move.

  35. Pepper will tell us more to-morrow, but I have no doubt that he died of syncope brought on by exertion.

  36. Pepper did not come, the Tofts were but servants.

  37. Pepper says that it was mainly exertion acting on a weak heart.

  38. The salt will be found in the mustard cup, the pepper alone remaining as it should be.

  39. Don't you see the tiger away there by the pepper plant?

  40. Costly spices grew on the shores: the pepper plant, the cinnamon tree, ginger, saffron; the coffee plant and the tea plant.

  41. Measure the chopped pepper and add an equal amount of finely crumbled bread.

  42. Mix flour smooth with a little cold milk before adding to boiling milk, add the butter and cook all together until a creamy consistency, then add the chopped meat well seasoned with salt and pepper and the chopped parsley.

  43. Season with a very little salt and pepper and scatter over small bits of butter.

  44. Season with a little chopped onion, pepper and salt.

  45. Separate the sweetbreads into small pieces with a silver knife, never use steel, put in a stewpan with enough cream to cover, add butter, pepper and salt to taste.

  46. Remove shells, cut in halves, mash the yolks to a smooth paste with about 1/2 teaspoon mixed mustard, 1 teaspoon softened butter, pepper and salt to taste.

  47. Instead of the chopped giblets, add 2 dozen oysters to the dressing, or a few chestnuts boiled tender, mashed and seasoned with butter, pepper and salt and added to the crumbled bread.

  48. Add 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, pepper and salt, and simmer a few minutes.

  49. Serve with a bit of butter on top, season with pepper and salt.

  50. Place a layer of oysters in a baking dish alternately with fine, dried crumbs, well seasoned with pepper and salt and bits of butter, until pan is about two-thirds full.

  51. Season with salt and pepper and fill (well-washed) peppers from which the stem and seeds have been removed.

  52. From the time he graduated from that pepper university he never would follow a fox at all.

  53. I ran out and dropped some red pepper where the dog was likely to follow the fox over the hill.

  54. But just at this point the pepper in the bull's mane began to take irresistible effect, both in eyes and nostrils.

  55. Finding that there was no resistance left in the beans, the sugar, or the bag of flour, he went after the little scarlet tin of pepper which had been thrown some distance and lay under a neighboring tree.

  56. As he struggled savagely to make good his hold against the plunging and the thrashing antlers of his antagonist, once more the pepper in his nostrils began to work with power.

  57. Cayenne pepper on cotton, and moistened with spirits of camphor, has been known to afford relief.

  58. To rub fresh meat with salt and pepper will prevent the flies from troubling it, and will make it keep longer.

  59. Season the beef with pepper and salt, and put it in the tin kitchen, well skewered to the spit, with a pint of water in the bottom: baste and turn it frequently, so that every part may have the fire.

  60. When the whey has risen sufficiently, pour it through a colander, and put the curd or cheese away in a cold place, and just before going to table, season it with salt and pepper to your taste, and pour some sweet cream over it.

  61. Slice them, season with pepper and salt, and fry in hot butter; if they are green, dip them in flour after being seasoned.

  62. The cayenne pepper and honey gargle should also be kept ready mixed, and used when the first symptoms appear; or in a violent attack, a plaster of snuff and lard may be applied with benefit, keeping it on only a few minutes at a time.

  63. I wouldn't pepper him, Harry," said Phra.

  64. I'll only pepper him so as to scare him and his friends away.

  65. Into the rich earth sifted to make the bed in this frame, he transplanted tomato, egg-plant, pepper and other plants of a delicate nature.

  66. If Pepper is scared, he may not trouble you again.

  67. It don't seem to me the old man give Pepper so long a time.

  68. But goodness me, boy, Pepper must have got him to renew it, or something.

  69. That's what has started Pepper up to grab off the farm while the option is valid.

  70. Pepper remembered the option he had risked twenty dollars on.

  71. The last time I saw that Pepper in town he grinned at me in a way that made me want to break my old umbrel' over his dratted head!

  72. If that Pepper man would only come for'ard and say what he was going to do!

  73. I certainly could have given that Pepper as good a thrashing as ever he got," muttered Hiram.

  74. Pepper gambled twenty dollars on its coming along the boundary of the Atterson farm--between you and Darrell's tract--and thought he had lost.

  75. And why should Pepper have buncoed him--at that time?

  76. Pepper got after him right away, but sort of on the quiet, to one side.

  77. And that lawyer says that in a couple of years the farm will be worth a good deal more than this Pepper offers.

  78. Pepper still "hung fire" and he would not go to Mr. Strickland with his option.

  79. About eleven o'clock two servants began to spread a table under the pepper tree, where the shadow of a projecting balcony stretched across the broken flags.

  80. In the middle of the square a pepper tree stretched its thin branches across a marble fountain, in which shining water splashed.

  81. Do not be afraid to use red pepper in salads.

  82. Cover veal with water, season with salt and pepper and simmer until done.

  83. Cut pears in half lengthwise and remove seed; sprinkle with salt, pepper and lemon or lime juice and eat with a spoon.

  84. Remove from fire and add one half teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, white pepper to taste and beat until smooth.

  85. One teaspoonful of salt, tabasco or cayenne and black pepper to taste; one half cup of cold olive oil, one and one-half tablespoonfuls of vinegar.

  86. When served unwrap and slip each sandwich into a green pepper ring.

  87. Stir oil and vinegar alternately into salt and pepper with an orange wood fork until thick.

  88. These are also nice made in the same way, using salt and pepper instead of French dressing.

  89. Three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one scant teaspoonful of salt, one half teaspoonful mustard, one teaspoonful sugar, white and red pepper to make rather hot; cook in double boiler and when hot add one half teacup of butter.

  90. Salt and pepper one four pound fat chicken and simmer in water enough to cover until perfectly tender.

  91. In the handling of these Pepper has been brilliant.

  92. Pepper worked really hard that night to put Evie at her ease, but alas!

  93. Though you knew that Pepper was laughing in his sleeve at you, and let him see you knew it, his face remained translucent and impenetrable as adamant.

  94. Pepper would have done so, but Pepper always dazzled Evie a little.

  95. Be calm, it is not; I only mention these Schmerveloffs as standing, in a way, for certain forces of which Pepper and I intended to make use.

  96. I had now my coming interview with Pepper to think of.

  97. We had guardedly discussed the prospects of the Consolidation; and then, as a preliminary to his coming down presently with a run, Pepper made a perfectly innocent but altogether luckless remark.

  98. I know you and Mr Pepper have private affairs.

  99. Oh, yes, we were getting on, and Pepper winked, remembering his candlesticks, but said nothing.

  100. Pepper was already in the midst of a deep bow, but he must have seen.

  101. Pepper had just begun to single out his new Jun.

  102. Though ordinarily I can concentrate my thoughts when necessary for a day and a night together, I have no power of sustained speech; and so Pepper "fed" me with opportunities for destruction or approbation or comment.

  103. At dusun Si Ballowe, to which our road lay south-easterly, through pepper and rice plantations, sampans were in readiness to convey us down the river.

  104. For the white pepper the planter receives the fourth part of a dollar, or fifteen pence, per bamboo or gallon measure, equal to about six pounds weight.

  105. In the cultivation of pepper (Piper nigrum, L.

  106. In some places they use for the same purpose the kulitkayu, or coolicoy, as it is pronounced by the Europeans, who employ it on board ship as dunnage in pepper and other cargoes.

  107. This being situated beyond the district where the pepper flourishes their returns are chiefly made in pulas twine, raw silk in its roughest state, and elephants' teeth.

  108. Thus the pepper is conveyed either to the warehouses at the head-settlement or to the ship from Europe lying there to receive it.

  109. Pepper that has fallen to the ground overripe and been gathered from thence will be known by being stripped of its outer coat, and in that state is an inferior kind of white pepper.

  110. About one-third part of the quantity of black pepper collected, but none of the white, is annually sent to China.

  111. They would occasionally work upon pepper plantations, and would bring the berries to Bencoolen for sale to British merchants.


  112. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pepper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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