An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A...nthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write;... And, if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-c...orn informations!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his... mail, and the swordfish never surrenders. To expire, mild-eyed, in one's bed, transcends the death of Epaminondas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.... If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Camped on a tropic riverside, One day he missed his loving bride.... She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an alligator. Professor Twist could not but smile. "You mean," he said, "a crocodile."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbour is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance gr...illed, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting ...to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »