"Little girl, to be frank with you, we are all
eatables. Everything in Bunbury is
eatable to ravenous human creatures like you.
MONTGOMERY interrupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o'clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and other
eatables, a flask of whiskey, a jug of water, and three glasses and knives.
Cypher's store of
eatables she poured out upon us with royal indifference to price and quantity, as from a cornucopia that knew no exhaustion.
The table had been spread with substantial
eatables nearly two hours before he presented himself-- a tall, stout man of sixty, with a face in which the knit brow and rather hard glance seemed contradicted by the slack and feeble mouth.
"And so it seems," returned the curate, and he told the canon what he proposed to do, on which he too made up his mind to halt with them, attracted by the aspect of the fair valley that lay before their eyes; and to enjoy it as well as the conversation of the curate, to whom he had begun to take a fancy, and also to learn more particulars about the doings of Don Quixote, he desired some of his servants to go on to the inn, which was not far distant, and fetch from it what
eatables there might be for the whole party, as he meant to rest for the afternoon where he was; to which one of his servants replied that the sumpter mule, which by this time ought to have reached the inn, carried provisions enough to make it unnecessary to get anything from the inn except barley.
Back went he to the pantry to see what
eatables were laid by.
If only the flowers had been
eatables, one might have suspected a thief of quite another shape--"
Chance rewarded our search for
eatable vegetables, and one of the most useful products of the tropical zones furnished us with precious food that we missed on board.
He would have known, at the first mouthful, that the air was not
eatable, and must have given up the ghost in despair.
They have such an
eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can hardly keep his hands off.
By that time I was very hungry, but after some searching I came upon some
eatable herbs, and a spring of clear water, and much refreshed I set out to explore the island.
In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable but merry; having ousted the officers from their own cabin, and having at command all the drink in the ship -- both wine and spirits -- and all the dainty part of what was
eatable, such as the pickles and the fine sort of bread.