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  • It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.   (source)
    Dutch = the people of the Netherlands
  • Such heaped up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives!   (source)
  • They began to wonder if this could possibly be their Final Purchase: four cans of beans and franks, a bag of Old Dutch potato chips, and half a dozen bobbers.†   (source)
  • The shunnee, so to speak, has gotten himself in dutch with the church, so he's excommunicated.†   (source)
  • The Thug said to Dirty Deed, "I'd be offended, man, and I ain't trying to say that you ain't good on the eighty-eights, but you know the only reason you got this gig is 'cause you're Dutch, you're white and you don't have the strongest personality in the world."†   (source)
  • The sneaky Dutch.†   (source)
  • CERN single-handedly employs more than half of the world's particle physicists-the brightest minds on earth-Germans, Japanese, Italians, Dutch, you name it.†   (source)
  • Rachel/Rachelle clogs up to the board, dressed in an outrageous Dutch/Scandinavian ensemble.†   (source)
  • Spencer herself had propped up a smiling picture of Alison in a tight blue Von Dutch T-shirt and spanking new Sevens.†   (source)
  • She knew about the breaching of the Maginot Line, the bombing of Rotterdam, the surrender of the Dutch army, and some of the girls had been talking the night before about the imminent collapse of Belgium.†   (source)
  • He mumbles something that sounds Swedish or Dutch.†   (source)
  • We must look good from a distance: picturesque, like Dutch milkmaids on a wallpaper frieze, like a shelf full of period-costume ceramic salt and pepper shakers, like a flotilla of swans or anything that repeats itself with at least minimum grace and without variation.†   (source)
  • She has the idea, though she's having trouble keeping her end of the double-dutch steady.†   (source)
  • I'd seen giant flying foxes in the Dutch East Indies.†   (source)
  • A female officer in her fifties, wearing full camouflage, was glaring at them, and barking at the Dutch reporter.†   (source)
  • They really knew how to work this edge, the Dutch painters—ripeness sliding into rot.†   (source)
  • Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendency, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin's conquest of Calicut.†   (source)
  • In the 1960s and 1970s, the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede was working for the human resources department of IBM's European headquarters.†   (source)
  • And of course you two must understand why Danny's invisible friend is named Tony instead of Mike or Hal or Dutch.†   (source)
  • In the evenings Gogol and his father eat together, alone, a week's worth of chicken curry and rice, which his father cooks in two battered Dutch ovens every Sunday.†   (source)
  • The Pennsylvania Dutch were polite but cautious of outsiders.†   (source)
  • His ostensible narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker, is a jolly companion who spins out these tales of his Dutch ancestors without seeing all the implications.†   (source)
  • They were polished by the Dutch philosopher Spinoza sometime during the mid-1600s.†   (source)
  • The Dutch Uncle ANYONE WHO knows me will tell you I've always had a healthy sense of myself and my abilities.†   (source)
  • Although some Dutch women in 1937 were wearing their skirts knee-length, mine was still a cautious three inches above my shoes.†   (source)
  • Dutch courage.†   (source)
  • On the third day the elderly man asked the wrinkled man if he would care to join him on his balcony, and though the elderly man could not speak Brazilian Portuguese and the wrinkled man could not speak Dutch, they cobbled together a conversation, a conversation with many long gaps, but these gaps were eminently comfortable, almost unnoticed by the two men, as two ancient trees would not notice a few minute, or hours that passed without a breeze.†   (source)
  • The people who make Dutch chocolate.†   (source)
  • The Dutch settled most of the land up and down the Hudson.†   (source)
  • He spots Timur sitting with two young, attractive Dutch women.†   (source)
  • I did not need the luxury anymore than I had needed it before, but I found myself enthralled with the new flood of art and craft and design, could stare at the intricate pattern of the carpets for hours, or watch the gleam of the lamplight change the somber colors of a Dutch painting.†   (source)
  • He saw a bear dressed like a Dutch girl keeping time to the music with a soup spoon and a pan.†   (source)
  • According to Vanger the name may have originated from the Dutch van Geerstat; if that was the case, the lineage could be traced as far back as the twelfth century.†   (source)
  • Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman-a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut.†   (source)
  • That left sailboats and speedboats from the British and French and Dutch and independent islands to slip into St. Croix at night and unload their cargoes of marijuana and pharmaceuticals from Europe and underground labs.†   (source)
  • I think he must have become a missionary and gone to minister to the lepers out on Easter Island, which is as far away as a man can go to forget and be forgotten because it's not on the normal routes of navigation and isn't even shown on Dutch maps.†   (source)
  • I'm mostly Dutch.†   (source)
  • She can do flowers, dutch boys and girls, just square blocks, anything you order.†   (source)
  • Or sometimes we'd pretend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.†   (source)
  • While I was helping myself to hot dutch-oven corn bread, fried potatoes, and fresh side meat, Grandpa poured the coffee.†   (source)
  • Was he Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Nepalese, Surinamese, Dutch-Chinese?†   (source)
  • The Dutch food safety program is administered not by agriculture officials, but by public health officials.†   (source)
  • It led to the block of the Dutch Oberkapo.†   (source)
  • In my first year, I studied English, anthropology, politics, native administration, and Roman Dutch law.†   (source)
  • Over thirty years, the IQ of Dutch conscripts rose twenty-one points and those of Spanish schoolchildren by ten points.†   (source)
  • Boil down, Dutch!†   (source)
  • While I was in Schenectady he joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed.†   (source)
  • Everything Paul had bought me in the two weeks we'd been dating had been Supersized or Doubled, and he always reached for his wallet immediately, not even entertaining my efforts to go Dutch every once in a while.†   (source)
  • Plus I already miss my Dutch ovens.†   (source)
  • If you don't, I'll be forced to confiscate your needlepoint, and where would you be without the satisfaction of finishing your little Dutch girl and windmill in seven different colors of thread, hmmm?†   (source)
  • He came regularly then, bearing gifts: clusters of black berries still on their branches, four meal-fried porgies wrapped in a salmon-colored sheet of the Pittsburgh Courier, a handful of jacks, two boxes of lime Jell-Well, a hunk of ice-wagon ice, a can of Old Dutch Cleanser with the bonneted woman chasing dirt with her stick; a page of Tillie the Toiler comics, and more gleaming white bottles of milk.†   (source)
  • Around its mouth was a motto written in Dutch, which Millard, standing next to me, translated: "From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom."†   (source)
  • A big, solid woman in her fifties, she wore her dark hair in a disconcertingly girlish Dutch boy bob.†   (source)
  • A rotating crew of young girls scaled and cleaned the catch and busy women in starched aprons salted and rolled the fish in corn meal, then dropped them in Dutch ovens trembling with boiling fat.†   (source)
  • We lay claim to them, sir, to keep the Dutch and French out.†   (source)
  • The Dutch group's strategy was to ignore the giant multinational drug companies, the ones that mainly rely on research and brand names and patent protection, and to deal instead with the myriad smaller companies that make and sell, at greatly reduced prices, already invented generic drugs under different names (as acetaminophen instead of Tylenol in the United States, for instance).†   (source)
  • What supplies there were came mainly by clandestine shipments from Europe to New York and Philadelphia by way of the Dutch island St. Eustatius in the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • This was Janjungpa, who had been head high altitude porter for a lavish Dutch-led expedition to K2 during Mortenson's time on the mountain, and who possessed an uncanny ability to stroll over to base camp for a visit at the precise moment his friend Akhmalu was serving lunch.†   (source)
  • All of this sumptuous land cut through by a deep clear rushing river, the Fox, whose fish-filled waters had drawn generations of Indians and, later, the great tides of European immigrants, Dutch and German, flowing west in their caravans of prairie schooners.†   (source)
  • Max sat down to take a breather, perusing some of the spines before him: Great Works of the Nineteenth Century, Art of the Baroque, Secret Techniques of the Old Masters, Dada and Surrealism, The Genius of Rembrandt, Hidden Symbols of Bernini, A Renaissance of Art and Man, Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, The Postmodern Dilemma ..."David," Max hissed, overwhelmed by the thick books and unfamiliar names.†   (source)
  • He was in real dutch this time, he needed real help and what do they do but sit in the kitchen and talk NAACP ...not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.†   (source)
  • Chalice made from silver, Dutch, 16th century Plaque depicting Holy Trinity, Italian mid-15th century Blue and white earthenware bowl, early 17th century That bowl's really nice, I find myself thinking in sudden interest, and wonder how much it is.†   (source)
  • It was Dutch.†   (source)
  • He had been born a Peakrill lad in a village near to Kinder Scout but had been sent off to Plymouth to take up tailoring, and in that port town had seen silk traders who traversed the Orient and had befriended lace makers even from among our enemies the Dutch.†   (source)
  • Is it Dutch, or something?†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, racial appearances and languages made participation infinitely more dangerous than, say, the German and Dutch undergrounds, or the French Resistance in World War Two.†   (source)
  • Had him a big brick store with mahogany counters, beveled glass mirrors, and big colored signs for Coca-Cola, Mother's Friend (Take to Make Childbirth Easier), Fletcher's Castoria, Old Dutch Cleanser, McKesson and Robbins liniment, and all like that.†   (source)
  • To protest, I stayed up in my room most of the night, until my mom literally begged me (using her famous it's-a-holiday guilt trip combined with the promise of double-dutch brownies) to "come join the family."†   (source)
  • I went to the ...to the Dutch ambassador's home.†   (source)
  • When it came time to drop onto Klendathu, I was assigned to PFC Dutch Bamburger as a supernumerary.†   (source)
  • The Portuguese became the main purveyors of illegal slaves, although ships under Spanish, French, Dutch, American, and Russian flags were also involved.†   (source)
  • Each tide has enriched American English with new words and expressions: From the Dutch, who owned New York before the British bought Manhattan, came blunderbuss, scow, sleigh, stoop, span, coleslaw, boss, bedspread, cookie, waffle, dunderhead, Santa Claus, and Yankee.†   (source)
  • "My attending physician is Dutch," her father said.†   (source)
  • From downsizing the family home to allowing a widower preacher to "go Dutch" with her at the Olive Garden on occasion, my mother has put one foot in front of the other with grace and fortitude.†   (source)
  • For some reason I think about Jacoba Van Heemskerck, a Dutch expressionist painter I've become interested in lately.†   (source)
  • Of course, it was the Dutch East Indies then.†   (source)
  • He talked Dutch real good, almost as good as he talked English and a lot better than he talked Shaw-Nee.†   (source)
  • There were fat Dutch barns, prim German orchards.†   (source)
  • And this Dutch apple that Maralee Landell baked.†   (source)
  • When the Dutch first built this house egg white was used to paint the walls.†   (source)
  • Some people say that prohibitions would not change our trade with Britain because she could use the Dutch to continue trading with us.†   (source)
  • There were several photographs, which he had pasted into a small journal book, the cardstock and image of much lower quality than the corporal's Dutch assortment.†   (source)
  • Or ...is there such a thing as Dutch blue?†   (source)
  • We melted thirty-two squares of Dutch bitter chocolate over a low fire.†   (source)
  • In Leamas' case this happened to be unfair, since he was bilingual in German and English and his Dutch was admirable; he also disliked cricket.†   (source)
  • I knew how terminal cancer patients felt when they would dutch at anything for a cure, hoping to live.†   (source)
  • You have a history with the Dutch services?†   (source)
  • "Guy in the scullery," replied Metzger authoritatively from the bathroom, "in charge of all the heavy stuff, canner kettles, gunboats, Dutch ovens..."†   (source)
  • I felt like laughing, first with relief and then at the thought of my Dutch-Irish mother being anything so exotic as Florida Navaho.†   (source)
  • Then, pink or not, the room she showed me on the ground floor was agreeably spacious, airy, sun-filled, and clean as a Dutch parlor.†   (source)
  • On the next night he failed to raise Dutch Harbor.†   (source)
  • He had also bought five tins of sardines, one for each day of the journey, I suppose; two tins of evaporated milk; a tin of Nescafe, a Dutch cheese, some biscuits and a quantity of Belgian honey cake.†   (source)
  • In the inner office Dutch Klein, Deputy A-2 and a buck general in his early forties, waited for his relief.†   (source)
  • There was no need to write an article on Blok, he thought, all you had to do was to paint a Russian version of a Dutch Adoration of the Magi with snow in it, and wolves, and a dark fir forest.†   (source)
  • Young courting people, Little Sister Spights' crowd, giggled at her, but small children and Negroes did not; they took her for granted like the lady on the Old Dutch Cleanser can.†   (source)
  • Then in Dutch: "Where are your brothers?"†   (source)
  • "Here, let me order," said Boris, and proceeded to do so, surprisingly, in Dutch.†   (source)
  • Sticky, how do you spell 'control' in Dutch?†   (source)
  • "He got out of Germany on a milk truck," Willem told us rapidly in Dutch.†   (source)
  • "It was a famous tragedy in Dutch history," my mother was saying.†   (source)
  • "That means 'the Purple Cow' in Dutch," said Boris helpfully.†   (source)
  • Stacks of piping, cement blocks, graffiti in Dutch.†   (source)
  • Max heard him bark an order in Dutch before he returned to the cabin, locking the hatch behind him.†   (source)
  • I'd been tutored in Dutch the first year in Willemstad so I could attend the regular school.†   (source)
  • Rosa started saying something in Dutch to her mother, but Trixie interrupted her.†   (source)
  • Something in Dutch, then: "I know who you are!†   (source)
  • Marijke said something in Dutch that Mum and I couldn't understand.†   (source)
  • Trixie obviously understood 'father'; vader in Dutch is pretty much the same.†   (source)
  • They talked about me in Dutch for a while, and then Andy hung up and told me: "Be in his office at 8 a.m. tomorrow."†   (source)
  • "No boxes in the cells!" cried the little guard in Dutch, as indignantly as though this had been a long-standing rule.†   (source)
  • And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.†   (source)
  • "This is all going to be very easy and comfortable," said Boris, who was clicking around on the radio past Bee Gees, past news in Dutch, in French, trying to find a song.†   (source)
  • I stayed in the room; the Do Not Disturb sign stayed on the door; and television—instead of providing even a false hum of normalcy—only racketed-up the variform confusion and displacement: no logic, no structure, what was on next, you didn't know, could be anything, Sesame Street in Dutch, Dutch people talking at a desk, more Dutch people talking at a desk, and though there was Sky News and CNN and BBC none of the local news was in English (nothing that mattered, nothing pertaining to me or the parking garage) though at one point I had a bad start when, flipping through the channels past an old American cop show, I stoppe†   (source)
  • Is learning English, French (correspondence course), shorthand in Dutch, English and German, commercial correspondence in English, woodworking, economics and sometimes math; seldom reads, sometimes geography.†   (source)
  • He made a study of Dutch ways and temperament, read deeply in Dutch history, searching out ever more volumes in Amsterdam's numerous well-stocked bookshops.†   (source)
  • She doesn't make sense in Dutch either.†   (source)
  • His proper name is Johannes, pronounced Yohannes in Dutch, and he's been called Yoyo since he was little.†   (source)
  • A metal drum, which he prised open to find sugar, tea, coffee, flour, powdered milk, powdered egg, tinned meat, English cigarettes in Dutch packets, candles, lard, several boxes of matches, and three slabs of something in plain brown paper.†   (source)
  • * The leader of the Dutch National Socialist (Nazi) Party.†   (source)
  • And yet, as I've already said, many Dutch people can be counted among their ranks.†   (source)
  • To his immense pleasure, his Dutch friend, Francis van der Kemp, came for a visit of several days.†   (source)
  • Dutch historians have put forward a theory that Silberbauer went to the house in Prinsengracht only to investigate forged ration cards.†   (source)
  • The uniformed SS Oberschaifuhrer Karl Josef Silberbauer and at least three Dutch collaborators, including Gezinus Gringhuis and Willem Grootendorst, got out of the car.†   (source)
  • According to subsequent assessments by the Dutch Red Cross, Hermann van Pels ("van Daan") was sent to the gas chamber on September 6, 1944, the day of his arrival in Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • All those Dutch people who still look down on the British, scoff at England and its government of aging lords, call the English cowards, yet hate the Germans, should be given a good shaking, the way you'd plump up a pillow.†   (source)
  • The warehouse worker Willem Gerardus van Maaren came under serious suspicion and, once the war was over, the Dutch police investigated him twice but were never able to prove that he betrayed the secret annex.†   (source)
  • He was also more widely traveled and more conversant with French and Dutch than any American diplomat yet dispatched across the Atlantic.†   (source)
  • Adams again succeeded with the Dutch bankers, but only after one of the most horrendous episodes in all his earthly pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • With his success obtaining Dutch loans at the critical hour of the Revolution, he felt, as did others, that he had truly saved his country.†   (source)
  • Landing on a desolate Dutch island, they had had to press on the rest of the way by foot and iceboat.†   (source)
  • It was only with his treaty of commerce with the Dutch completed that Adams felt free to leave, but even then he seems to have been in nohurry to get to Paris.†   (source)
  • IN THE FINAL DAYS of May 1786, John Adams was called on to hurry to Amsterdam once again, to secure still another desperately needed Dutch loan for the United States.†   (source)
  • In southeastern Pennsylvania the previous year there had been an armed uprising by German (Pennsylvania Dutch) farmers angry over the federal tax on land and the high-handed ways of the federal tax collectors.†   (source)
  • Ironically, a letter was en route that June from Robert Livingston demanding to know why in his reports to Congress Adams had included nothing about the dockyards and arsenals of Holland, or the ships preparing for sea, or anything about the leading members of the Dutch government.†   (source)
  • Adams, in court dress of brown velvet, stood holding a scroll in one hand—his memorial tothe Dutch Republic, perhaps, or the Treaty of Paris—while with the other hand he pointed to a map of America spread on a table.†   (source)
  • But he was also actively corresponding with others, including an old Dutch friend from the years in Amsterdam, the Reverend Francis van der Kemp, who had lately settled in upstate New York, and Benjamin Waterhouse, who had become a leading figure at the Harvard Medical School.†   (source)
  • It was essential that he take formal leave of his ambassadorial post there, he was informed, and to secure yet another loan, this to enable the United States to make its payments on earlier loans from the Dutch.†   (source)
  • When Jefferson inquired whether Adams might borrow again from the Dutch, and reported that French officers in Paris were angry over not having been paid what they were due for services in the Revolution, Adams was help-less to do anything.†   (source)
  • "The French Revolution," he wrote to a Dutch friend, Francis van der Kemp, "will, I hope, produce effects in favor of liberty, equity, and humanity as extensive as this whole globe and as lasting as all time."†   (source)
  • The reception they were given by the Dutch was warm and heartening, "striking proof, not only of their personal esteem," Abigail wrote, "but of the ideas they entertain with respect to the Revolution which gave birth to their connection with us...The spirit of liberty appears to be all alive with them."†   (source)
  • "She speaks only Dutch," Lady Seymour explained.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine being stuck with a language like Dutch or Portuguese?†   (source)
  • Now Kathy saw that the Dutch reporter was nearby.†   (source)
  • "Banged one of the Dutch girls," Timur says.†   (source)
  • She said something in the Dutch speech, which I did not understand.†   (source)
  • And the best part is that Andy really is Dutch.†   (source)
  • But since you're so proud of your home country, I think we'll also try Dutch.†   (source)
  • It's one of them old Dutch-style houses.†   (source)
  • But Andy van Dam, my "Dutch uncle" and mentor at Brown, advised me, "Get yourself a PhD.†   (source)
  • Nothing in the world less controllable than the sea, and yet the Dutch found a way to control it.†   (source)
  • The door opened and in stepped the funny-talking Dutch maid of Lady Seymour.†   (source)
  • There is an old expression, "a Dutch uncle," which refers to a person who gives you honest feedback.†   (source)
  • She learned the German from her husband, she said, same way she learned the Dutch.†   (source)
  • I stared at this Dutch Reformed clergyman.†   (source)
  • After two years, rich, black, pungent Dutch coffee.†   (source)
  • The Dutch girl came back in the kitchen and said something I could not make out at all.†   (source)
  • The Brigade was across the Dutch border.†   (source)
  • All of her Dutch girls fled, and she is without servants.†   (source)
  • The train was going only as far as Groningen, a Dutch city not far from the border.†   (source)
  • And since when had the German occupation government concerned itself with Dutch legal procedures?†   (source)
  • And the day he and Pippa went up to the Dutch exhibition?†   (source)
  • Speaks English, Dutch, only two words maybe of Russian.†   (source)
  • There was an old Dutch expression: you can tell a man by the way he meets your eyes.†   (source)
  • "five seconds gained," while Willem read aloud from a history of the Dutch Reformation.†   (source)
  • "Well, the Dutch invented the microscope," she said.†   (source)
  • Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German.†   (source)
  • Came down together in an old Dutch family, ended up in Austria after the war.†   (source)
  • In Barracks 8 most of us had been Dutch.†   (source)
  • said the old lady in broken-sounding Dutch.†   (source)
  • In 1947 we began to receive Dutch people who had been prisoners of the Japanese in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • "Special Dutch Christmas bread," he said, pointing it out ironically.†   (source)
  • "Where are your men?" the shorter soldier asked Cocky in clumsy, thick-accented Dutch.†   (source)
  • Mien was a pretty young Dutch woman we had met in Vught.†   (source)
  • I showed the woman behind the cashbox my Dutch guilders and told her I had lost my coupons.†   (source)
  • What have the Dutch done to deserve the generous help they so clearly expect?†   (source)
  • Lately he had also moved some of the younger Dutch Jews away from the nursing home.†   (source)
  • I was also given back my watch, my Dutch money, and Mama's ring.†   (source)
  • Oh no, the Dutch are very much mistaken.†   (source)
  • Saturday evening at dinner he apologized in beautiful Dutch.†   (source)
  • BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, French and other languages at ten: The invasion has begun!†   (source)
  • First, I translated a passage on Nelson's last battle from Dutch into English.†   (source)
  • I sometimes listen to the Dutch broadcasts from London.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, only a small percentage of Dutch people are on the wrong side.†   (source)
  • Since Pim writes his verses only in German, Margot volunteered to translate it into Dutch.†   (source)
  • All Dutch people will be issued new ration registration cards.†   (source)
  • As always, the Dutch program was uplifting without being too optimistic.†   (source)
  • From our position here in Fort Annex, it's difficult to gauge the mood of the Dutch.†   (source)
  • I love the Dutch, I love this country, I love the language, and I want to work here.†   (source)
  • We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well.†   (source)
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  • He took the essentials—a big black cast-iron skillet and the Dutch oven, some army-surplus tin plates, a few knives, his pistol, and Mom's archery set—and packed them in the trunk of the Blue Goose.†   (source)
  • He slipped out of the pen and walked to the Dutch doors and stood with one hand on the latch listening to water sheeting off the eaves.†   (source)
  • On their first night there her brother had plucked the stiff horse hairs out of the freshly whitewashed walls and run his fingers along the toothmarks on top of the double Dutch door where the wood was soft and worn.†   (source)
  • Smallest, she thought dismally, looking at it There were twelve burners, two regular ovens and a Dutch oven, a heated well on top in which you could simmer sauces or bake beans, a broiler, and a warmer — plus a million dials and temperature gauges.†   (source)
  • No leaning over the Dutch door to chat on maximum security.†   (source)
  • He went over and put his hand on top of the Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • What with the feather bed, her flannel nightgown, the thick down cover, and his woolen clothing and alpaca socks, it was like a Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • In some of the stables, the top of the Dutch door at each stall was open.†   (source)
  • Tom got himself a bowl of chili and a cup of coffee while Red found the tortillas in the Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • A woman professor who was a friend of Antonina Alexan-drovna's taught her to bake bread in an improvised Dutch oven.†   (source)
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  • Where the cooking fire had been was a barbecue pit and by it a Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • She put her head into the nursing station, in through the open half of the Dutch door.†   (source)
  • They left both the lower and the upper halves of the Dutch door standing open.†   (source)
  • By the time they'd returned to the barn, Tinder was heeling without flaw, and when Edgar stopped before the Dutch doors, the dog dropped into a perfect sit at his knee.†   (source)
  • Valerie shut the top of the Dutch door to the nursing station and had a powwow with the rest of the staff while Lisa yelled and slammed.†   (source)
  • He looked again toward the Dutch doors and then faced into the workshop and then got control of himself and took a breath and looked steadily at Edgar.†   (source)
  • With a little imagination, subtracting out the changes the Sawtelles had made—the expanded kitchen, the extra bedroom, the back porch that ran the length of the west side—you'd notice that the house had the same steep gambrel roof that shed the snow so well in the winter, and that the windows were cut into the house just where the Dutch doors appeared at the end of the barn.†   (source)
  • The heart of his breakfast was a plenitude of sourdough biscuits, which he cooked in a Dutch oven out in the backyard.†   (source)
  • Augustus molded his biscuits and went out and got a fire going in the Dutch oven while it was still good dark—just enough of a fire to freshen up his bed of mesquite coals.†   (source)
  • Two was because biscuits cooked in a Dutch oven tasted better than stove-cooked biscuits, and three was because he liked to be outside to catch the first light.†   (source)
  • Dish sat on the Dutch oven, sipping black coffee and squeezing his temples with one hand—each temple felt like someone had given it a sharp rap with a small ax.†   (source)
  • When he had washed his dishes he got the packet of stew meat from the cooler and set it to cook with onions and potatoes in the Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • The Dutch oven beside the flat stones at the cooking fireplace was clean, the coffeepot was airing, the skillet had been scoured.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Radford readjusted the bacon in the Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • "They're fools either road," she answered at length, turning to the Dutch oven.†   (source)
  • She lingered in her bed long after the crackling of the camp fire and the metallic clinking of Dutch oven and skillet attested to the task of breakfast.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Radford took the Dutch oven from the fire, and stood near him, putting bits of bacon on his plate.†   (source)
  • Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers.†   (source)
  • Shut his blurry Dutch oven with a firm hand.†   (source)
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