"Smoke-dried" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remarkable. Over the mantelpiece, however, hung a small picture with naked figures in the foreground, and with much foliage behind. It might not have struck every beholder, for it looked old and smoke-dried; but a connoisseur, on inspecting it closely, would have pronounced it to be a Judgment of Paris, and a masterpiece of ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... as he filled his plate for the third time from a large haunch of smoke-dried venison, for which his recent skirmish with the Indians had given him an unusual relish, "so it appears your recommendation of poor Halloway to mercy is little likely to be attended to. Did you remark how displeased the colonel looked as he bungled through it? One might almost be ...
— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson
... the old woman, Granny Hall, looking like another creature, smoke-dried and withered indeed, ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... appeared many applicants for places; among the most noteworthy of whom was a small, smoke-dried figure, who gave himself out to be one of the bad spirits that had waited upon Dr. Faustus in his laboratory. He pretended to show a certificate of character, which, he averred, had been given him by that famous necromancer, and ...
— The Intelligence Office (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
