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Usage examples of "maccaroni".

The rogue did nothing but eat maccaroni, and swallow the lachryma christi, which the Dalmatian count had on freight.

I run the channel of Piombino in a mistral, shoot the Faro of Messina in a white squall, double Santa Maria di Leuca in a breathing Levanter, and come skimming up the Adriatic before a sirocco that is hot enough to cook my maccaroni, and which sets the whole sea boiling worse than the caldrons of Scylla.

I cooked him some maccaroni myself one day, and he sends word to me by that Mr.

Sea fowls are pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent back.

Venice which he who would eat his maccaroni in peace, would do well to forget.

Our present ephemeral dandy is akin to the maccaroni of my earlier days.

There was the kangaroo-tail soup, a boiled leg of fresh pork, with peas--pudding, two pairs of very young and tender pigeons, maccaroni, and cheese, and a pumpkin tart.

In the trade jargon they were known as Maccaroni, and recently had begun to be listed in regular business reports.

Neapolitan boy with a string of maccaroni, slowly masticating, the unconsumed portion being constantly transferred from one side of the mouth to the other, so that both sides of the jaws may come into play.

The Albino looked up into his face and saw the veins standing out upon it as large as maccaroni stems, and strange though it may appear, it was only then that he recognized his deliverer.