___ one's words (recant)

Usage examples of eat.

For if so be it doth not, then may ye all abide at home, and eat of my meat, and drink of my cup, but little chided either for sloth or misdoing, even as it hath been aforetime.

Yet he abode with them long, and ate and drank amidst the hay with them till the moon shone brightly.

Nimmy wondered absently if he should confess to eating barbecued wilddog on abstinence days, even though the cardinal had granted dispensation in an emergency situation.

Like the strawberry, if eaten without sugar and cream, it does not undergo any acetous fermentation in the stomach, even with gouty or strumous persons.

Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant having something to eat.

Until now, as it had grown and matured, it had lived adventitiously, drifting with the currents, eating whatever food came its way.

He had eaten much worse food and been glad to get it, both as a boy and more recently, when he had shared campfires and rations with Afghani miners.

Joran and Lilla served themselves first, to allay any suspicions that the food was drugged, but the Agnate still refused to eat or drink.

Nonetheless, our golden agouti vanished, stolen by someone who ate it, Father suspected.

When you have any ordinary ailment, particularly of a feverish sort, eat nothing at all during twenty-four hours.

She also brought something called akee, which she said she used to eat from trees in Haiti.

She had the broad features common to the Akka people and the broad shoulders of a woman who has tackled a lot of reindeer, and it was hard to tell whether she contemplated those dogs with such an avid gaze because they looked fit to serve her, or to be eaten for supper.

The Albergo della Colombina was a great disappointment, for there was nothing there that could be eaten.

Our cooks employ it with vinegar for making the mint sauce which we eat with roast lamb, because of its condimentary virtues as a spice to the immature meat, whilst the acetic acid of the vinegar serves to help dissolve the crude albuminous fibre.

Giving wide berth to the few steadings and inns that lay along the road, they kept up a steady pace for as long as Micum could stay in the saddle, slept in the open, and ate whatever Alec shot.