Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the
bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in
bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say
beans instead of grass -- this was my daily work.
The
bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all
beans since then have a black seam.
Better
beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
When the
beans were finally cooked, Daylight ran part of them into a bag of flour-sacking a foot and a half long and three inches in diameter.
After awhile it seemed to me that my oats came very short; I had the
beans, but bran was mixed with them instead of oats, of which there were very few; certainly not more than a quarter of what there should have been.
He looked to see if the dish of
beans was still there; the dish of
beans had disappeared.
Jane escorted them all upstairs, while Miranda watched the cooking of the supper; but Rebecca promptly took the two little girls away from their mother, divested them of their wraps, smoothed their hair, and brought them down to the kitchen to smell the
beans.
Phebe stopped rattling her
beans from one pan to another, and her eyes were full of pity as they rested on the curly head bent down on Rose's knee, for she saw that the heart under the pretty locket ached with its loss, and the dainty apron was used to dry sadder tears than any she had ever shed.
Straight to New York they hie, and lay their goods at the feet of the girl who serves them
beans in a beanery.
Webster's Dictionary gives the meaning of the word 'miasma' as 'an infection floating in the air; a deadly exhalation'; and, in the opinion of Mr Robert Ferguson, his late employer, that description, though perhaps a little too flattering, on the whole summed up Master Roland
Bean pretty satisfactorily.
Bean, one of the Americans, was found a note-book in which had been penciled some sentences which admit us, in flesh and spirit, as it were, to the presence of these men during their last hours of life, and to the grisly horrors which their fading vision looked upon and their failing consciousness took cognizance of:
You take and split the
bean, and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the
bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the
bean.
