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  • Chile, corn, stew, soup, spaghetti sauce.†   (source)
  • We can buy kiwis from New Zealand and grapes from Chile.†   (source)
  • TO BE CONTINUED ....Next month's recipe: Beans with Chile Tezcucana-style CHAPTER ELEVEN — November†   (source)
  • Henrietta's cells rode into the mountains of Chile in the saddlebags of pack mules.†   (source)
  • After Janie and I returned from Chile I met Mary again in class the following morning.†   (source)
  • L.A. is south, Mexico is south, even Chile is south of here.†   (source)
  • Chile.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist and two others, one of whom came from Skövde and had his roots in Chile, were assigned to clean the prison gym each day.†   (source)
  • Red chile became huge ristras.†   (source)
  • "Sweet chile," she said as she hugged me.†   (source)
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  • Lord chile.†   (source)
  • Chile has copper and iron.†   (source)
  • Or I be mixing something in a bowl for the other chile and I'd talk to it then too.†   (source)
  • From Spain he would travel to Lisbon, and from Lisbon he intended to take a boat to Chile, where his father's cousin lived.†   (source)
  • Colin's face instantly turns bright red, resembling a chile pepper.†   (source)
  • He sends out dozens of plates every day for customers who appreciate the pleasant tang in the chile verde sauce and the crunch of the stuffed peppers.†   (source)
  • So does Red Hot Mama's give out a sex manual for the chile packers — how to do it without touching anything?†   (source)
  • Git up offa my chile!'†   (source)
  • But nary a hair on that chile's head got tetched.†   (source)
  • Novelist ISABEL ALLENDE was born in Peru and raised in Chile.†   (source)
  • Why not just tell him we were in Chile?†   (source)
  • in charge of it now, who used to be my best metallurgist in Chile.†   (source)
  • Sin chile, no creen que estan comiendo [without chilies, the natives don't believe they're eating}.†   (source)
  • That was said by a police captain whose father came from Chile and had never learned English.†   (source)
  • So ended my dreams of motorcycle madness and Chile.†   (source)
  • The upshot was that a series of urgent messages were dispatched to me through the Canadian Consul in Chile, instructing me to report to Ottawa at once.†   (source)
  • Start along the Pacific coast of South America, and you can follow it up north through Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America, Mexico, the western United States, Canada, and Alaska, then around and down through Kamchatka, the Kuriles, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Zealand.†   (source)
  • Military men are capable of abominable crimes; witness, in our recent time alone, Chile, My Lai, Greece.†   (source)
  • "That chile needs to be in that Washington," she added.†   (source)
  • After quite a little while Victoria said, "Chile, I want to tell you sumpn.†   (source)
  • News of a shocking development has just reached us from Santiago, Chile!†   (source)
  • He owned cattle ranches, coffee plantations and most of the copper mines of Chile.†   (source)
  • And then all those puzzling question marks: a trading company with 200,000 kronor in an untouched account registered five years earlier in Santiago, Chile—one of nearly thirty such companies in twelve different countries—and not a hint of what type of activity was involved.†   (source)
  • Nadia asked if Saeed had been to the deserts of Chile and seen the stars and was it all he had imagined it would be.†   (source)
  • Janie Parker and I went to Chile to perform in a gala, which was already scheduled, even though my back was getting worse by the day.†   (source)
  • He explained that just because we can ship organic lettuce from California, or organic apples from Chile, doesn't mean we should do it.†   (source)
  • Beans with Chile Tezcucana-style INGREDIENTS: beans pork pork rinds chiles anchos onion grated cheese lettuce avocado radishes chiles tornachiles olives PREPARATION: First the beans have to be boiled with baking soda, and then washed and boiled again with pieces of pork and pork rind.†   (source)
  • How could you be so idiotic as to decide to begin liquidating individuals in Sweden just as we saw happen in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship?†   (source)
  • My parents had immigrated to Chile from Krakow when I was very young, so there was something about him that was familiar and moving to me.†   (source)
  • I was glad Misha didn't ask me why, if Litvinoff had been so in love with Alma, he hadn't followed her to America; why he'd gone to Chile instead and married someone named Rosa.†   (source)
  • The last event of the day had been a large dinner reception at the home of Señor Rodrigo Gonzales, a diplomatic representative of Chile.†   (source)
  • She flipped to the back flap of the book to find out more about the author, but all it said was that Zvi Litvinoff had been born in Poland and moved to Chile in 1941, where he still lived today.†   (source)
  • AWAKE IN THE DARK I thought about Misha and Luba, and my father and mother, and why Zvi Litvinoff had moved to Chile and married Rosa, instead of Alma, the one he'd really loved.†   (source)
  • In place of the golden dawn of a new age, the People's States of Chile and Argentina are left with a pile of rubble and hordes of unemployed on their hands.†   (source)
  • His first months in Chile were spent working whatever jobs he could get; first in a sausage factory, from which he was fired on his third day when he took the wrong streetcar and arrived fifteen minutes late, and, after that, in a grocery shop.†   (source)
  • In that same instant, on the stroke of ten, by an infernal marvel of synchronization, every property of d'Anconia Copper on the face of the globe, from Chile to Siam to Spain to Pottsville, Montana, had been blown up and swept away.†   (source)
  • In your introduction, you mentioned in passing a little-known writer, Zvi Litvinoff, who escaped from Poland to Chile in 1941, and whose single published work, written in Spanish, is called The History of Love.†   (source)
  • A special session of the legislature of the People's State of Chile had been called for ten o'clock this morning, to pass an act of utmost importance to the people of Chile, Argentina and other South American People's States.†   (source)
  • It had been followed by a few cocktails at the home of Orren Boyle, with only one unobtrusive gentleman from Argentina sitting silently in a corner, while two executives from Washington and a few friends of unspecified positions had talked about national resources, metallurgy, mineralogy, neighborly duties and the welfare of the globe-and had mentioned that a loan of four billion dollars would be granted within three weeks to the People's State of Argentina and the People's State of Chile.†   (source)
  • Dinner had been about to be served, when he had heard what he had come to hear: Señor Gonzales had mentioned-the smoke of his cigar weaving over the half-dozen men who had drifted toward his armchair-that by agreement with the future People's State of Argentina, the properties of d'Anconia Copper would be nationalized by the People's State of Chile, in less than a month, on September 2.†   (source)
  • It had been followed by a small cocktail party in a private room of the bar built like a cellar on the roof of a skyscraper, an informal party given by him, James Taggart, for the directors of a recently formed company, The Interneighborly Amity and Development Corporation, of which Orren Boyle was president and a slender, graceful, overactive man from Chile was treasurer, a man whose name was Señor Mario Martinez, but whom Taggart was tempted, by some resemblance of spirit, to call Señor Cuffy Meigs.†   (source)
  • who had wanted to be a scientist, had given up his studies and become a dishwasher-that he, James Taggart, might sit in a private barroom and pay for the alcohol pouring down Orren Boyle's throat, for the waiter who sponged Boyle's garments when he spilled his drink over his chest, for the carpet burned by the cigarettes of an ex-pimp from Chile who did not want to take the trouble of reaching for an ashtray across a distance of three feet.†   (source)
  • He had lost his property-it was said-when Chile, becoming a People's State, had nationalized all properties, except those belonging to citizens of backward, non-People's countries, such as Argentina; but he had adopted an enlightened attitude and had joined the new regime, placing himself in the service of his country.†   (source)
  • It has beans, potatoes, chile, and ....I can't tell very well ....some type of meat.†   (source)
  • They ate beans and tortillas and a chile of goatmeat ladled up out of a clay pot.†   (source)
  • Ain't you done enough to me and this chile?'†   (source)
  • And there is plenty of red chile for making ristras, and fruit, ay!†   (source)
  • Lord chile you got that same black hair all down your back.†   (source)
  • They is no sense in a white chile working in this heat.†   (source)
  • Green chile was roasted and dried, and red chile was tied into colorful ristras.†   (source)
  • Already we had a few chile and tomato plants growing.†   (source)
  • My mother and Ultima kept to themselves, tying the red chile into long, thick ristras.†   (source)
  • The hot beans flavored with chicos and green chile were muy sabrosos.†   (source)
  • My mother had packed a small jar of hot beans and some good, green chile wrapped in tortillas.†   (source)
  • Just because, chile,she said in a stern and gentle voice.†   (source)
  • Wait, chile, said Victoria, breathing hard.†   (source)
  • One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did.†   (source)
  • Tita wondered whether the fact that there was not a single chile left on the platters was a sign that good manners had been forgotten or that the chiles were indeed splendid.†   (source)
  • When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it.†   (source)
  • These tricolored trays didn't last very long: the chiles disappeared in the blink of an eye ....how long ago it seemed that Tita had felt like a chile in nut sauce left sitting on the platter out of etiquette, for not wanting to look greedy.†   (source)
  • It was as if they were rejecting that stuffed pepper, which contains every imaginable flavor; sweet as candied citron, juicy as a pomegranate, with the bit of pepper and the subtlety of walnuts, that marvelous chile in walnut sauce.†   (source)
  • Turkey Mole with Almonds and Sesame Seeds INGREDIENTS: 1/4 chile mulato 3 chiles pasillas 3 chiles anchos a handful of almonds a handful of sesame seeds turkey stock a hard roll (1/3 concha loaf) peanuts 1/2 onion wine 2 squares of chocolate anise lard cloves cinnamon pepper sugar seeds from the chiles 5 cloves garlic PREPARATION: Two days after killing the turkey, clean it and cook with salt.†   (source)
  • I made Estevan a big breakfast, eggs scrambled with tomatoes and peppers and green chile sauce, and sent him home before I could start falling in love with him again over the breakfast dishes.†   (source)
  • They went to the fire and filled their plates with beans and chile and took each a couple of blackened corn tortillas from a piece of sheetiron laid over the fire and walked over and sat under the willows a little apart from the workers.†   (source)
  • It sounds like a woman who was watchin' a team of wild horses run down her baby chile and she caint move.†   (source)
  • Yes chile!†   (source)
  • Green chile was roasted and set to dry.†   (source)
  • Two baskets of chile and one of corn!†   (source)
  • And to show their hope they rubbed the dark earth of the river valley on the baby's forehead, and they surrounded the bed with the fruits of their harvest so the small room smelled of fresh green chile and corn, ripe apples and peaches, pumpkins and green beans.†   (source)
  • Do you understand me, chile?†   (source)
  • "Why God bless him, why chile, chile, and she held him away from her and her face was the happiest thing he had ever seen, "ah believe you do remembuh!†   (source)
  • And then one day without warning the biggest woman he had ever seen, shining deep black and all in magnificent white with bright gold spectacles and a strong smile like that of his Aunt Hannah, entered the house and embraced his mother and swept down on him crying with delight, "Lawd, chile, how mah baby has growed!†   (source)
  • Chile, Ah din' know but Ah din' lak de look on yo' face yestiddy.†   (source)
  • He wants to get off to Chile.†   (source)
  • Roxana caught her breath with a spasm, and said: "Chile!†   (source)
  • Chile's Garden Verses.†   (source)
  • He had met a townsman, a couple of years before, in some sailor boarding-house in Chile, so that he knew his mother to be still alive.†   (source)
  • Lawd a'mussy, honey, Ah sho is glad tuh see mah chile!†   (source)
  • Ma said, "They used to be a sayin', 'A chile born outa sorrow'll be a happy chile.†   (source)
  • You take heed a that pore chile in your belly an' keep outa sin.†   (source)
  • Mah Dilcey got a new chile herseff an' she got mo'n nuff fer both.†   (source)
  • Ah feels lak uh motherless chile round heah.†   (source)
  • Dilcey, comyere an' mek dis wuthless chile—†   (source)
  • Oncet in school we give a Chris' chile play—Christmus.†   (source)
  • But you got to take in consideration you ain't no everyday chile like most of 'em.†   (source)
  • They's good folks thinks a Chris' chile is awright.†   (source)
  • She doan th'ow it up ter me dat Ah done kilt mah chile.'†   (source)
  • Dat's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me.†   (source)
  • Well, who's lookin' after a lil girl-chile lak you?†   (source)
  • Well, Miss Scarlett, mah Dilcey ten' ter Miss Melly's chile.†   (source)
  • Ah don't see how come mah milk didn't kill mah chile, wid me so skeered and worried all de time.†   (source)
  • Ah ain' gwine leave Miss Ellen's chile, an' dar ain' no way in de worl' ter mek me go.†   (source)
  • Ah never felt the fust ones 'cause Ah wuz too busy gittin' de kivver back over mah chile.†   (source)
  • Miss Scarlett, you sho is de beatenes' chile!†   (source)
  • Nuthin' wrong wid this chile 'cept he hongry, and whut it take to feed a hongry chile I got.†   (source)
  • An' Ah tek de chile away frum him an' tek her inter her room an' wash her face.†   (source)
  • You is as bad as Miss Pitty an' she lak a chile 'bout gittin' her feets wet.†   (source)
  • Whut dat chile got ter stan', de good Lawd give her strent ter stan'.†   (source)
  • Miss Melly done had a chile an' you is bustin' ter get outer town.†   (source)
  • Ah ain' never seed no man, black or w'ite, set sech a sto' by any chile.†   (source)
  • Ah die of shame, eve'ybody knowin 'it wud fer mah chile!†   (source)
  • You is de troublesomes' chile Ah ever seed!†   (source)
  • Does you think Ah'm gwine ter put mah chile away in de dahk w'en she so sceered of it?†   (source)
  • Miss Scarlett, you better tek dat chile.†   (source)
  • But, Mist' Rhett, dat chile din' have no caution an' she wuzn' sceered of nuthin'.†   (source)
  • An' Ah say: 'Give dat chile ter its mammy.†   (source)
  • You knows whut a sto' he set by dat chile.†   (source)
  • You chile!†   (source)
  • But this here wasn' no Chris' chile.†   (source)
  • He's loose agin, an' she's wi' chile.†   (source)
  • Who wid, chile?†   (source)
  • I ain't gonna tell how the fella got killed with a stab knife an' how they was a bear come in an' took off a little chile.†   (source)
  • Feel better now, Tea Cake, baby chile?†   (source)
  • Mist' Gerald, I is sorry to 'sturb you, but I wanted to come here and thank you agin fo' buyin' me and my chile.†   (source)
  • "W'en Ah wuz bathin' dat chile jes' now," said Mammy, "Ah kinder 'pologized ter Mist' Rhett 'bout it not bein' a boy.†   (source)
  • He ain' gwine let us buhy dat chile.†   (source)
  • You ain' look affer mah chile right!'†   (source)
  • Den he try ter snatch de chile frum me, buck nekked as she wuz an' Ah slap his wrist an' say 'B'have yo'seff, Mist' Rhett!†   (source)
  • Miss Pitty ain' nuthin' but a chile an'—" At this, Scarlett and Melly whooped louder and sank down to the steps.†   (source)
  • Ain' no reason why Miss Ellen's chile kain weah rags ef she wants ter, an' eve'ybody respec' her lak she wo' silk.†   (source)
  • An' Ah ain' got no chile, needer.†   (source)
  • Once she said "Melly?" and Mammy's voice said: "S'me, chile," and put a cold rag on her forehead and she cried fretfully: "Melly— Melanie" over and over but for a long time Melanie did not come.†   (source)
  • He picked Scarlett up with ease despite his apparent frailness and age and, observing Prissy standing on the platform of the train, the baby in her arms, he paused: "Is dat air chile yo' nuss?†   (source)
  • Ah wuz plumb 'stracted whut wid Miss Scarlett in a swoon an' all de neighbors in an' outer de house an' Mist' Rhett cahyin' on an' jes' holin' dat chile an' not even lettin' me wash her lil face whar de grabble cut it.†   (source)
  • Mammy's chile is home!†   (source)
  • Lemme look at you chile, lemme feel o' you.†   (source)
  • Dat's de way Sollermun was gwyne to do wid de chile.†   (source)
  • A chile er two, mo' er less, warn't no consekens to Sollermun, dad fatch him!†   (source)
  • HE as soon chop a chile in two as a cat.†   (source)
  • Chickens knows when it's gwyne to rain, en so do de birds, chile.†   (source)
  • I tell you, chile, I'spec it save' ole Jim—ole Jim ain't going to forgit you for dat, honey.†   (source)
  • Does you know 'bout dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two?†   (source)
  • He says: "Laws bless you, chile, I 'uz right down sho' you's dead agin.†   (source)
  • "Do as you tink best, poor chile," she replied.†   (source)
  • "Lor, chile," said she, putting her arms round me, "you's got de high-sterics.†   (source)
  • Day ain't nothin' a white mother won't do for her chile.†   (source)
  • chile!" exclaimed Betty, "she ain't seen notin', nor hearn notin'.†   (source)
  • En does you know anything dat a mother won't do for her chile?†   (source)
  • When all were abed and asleep, Betty raised the plank, and said, "Come out, chile; come out.†   (source)
  • En what use is a half a chile?†   (source)
  • —en my lan', de chile never move'!†   (source)
  • Dah's de stump, dah—dat's one er de women; heah's you—dat's de yuther one; I's Sollermun; en dish yer dollar bill's de chile.†   (source)
  • I was a-gwyne for de chile, but jis' den—it was a do' dat open innerds—jis' den, 'long come de wind en slam it to, behine de chile, ker-BLAM!†   (source)
  • I crope out, all a-tremblin', en crope aroun' en open de do' easy en slow, en poke my head in behine de chile, sof' en still, en all uv a sudden I says POW!†   (source)
  • De 'spute warn't 'bout a half a chile, de 'spute was 'bout a whole chile; en de man dat think he kin settle a 'spute 'bout a whole chile wid a half a chile doan' know enough to come in out'n de rain.†   (source)
  • Den I went into de yuther room, en 'uz gone 'bout ten minutes; en when I come back dah was dat do' a-stannin' open YIT, en dat chile stannin' mos' right in it, a-lookin' down and mournin', en de tears runnin' down.†   (source)
  • "Yer see, fellow-countrymen," said Sam, elevating a turkey's leg, with energy, "yer see, now what dis yer chile 's up ter, for fendin' yer all,—yes, all on yer.†   (source)
  • Dar, chile, be still!†   (source)
  • Ain't you my chile?†   (source)
  • Ain't gwine to have 'em putt'n dey han's up 'fo' dey eyes en sayin' to David and Goliah en dem yuther prophets, 'Dat chile is dress' to indelicate fo' dis place.'†   (source)
  • Old Betty would exclaim, "Lors, chile!†   (source)
  • She paused awhile, thinking; then she burst into wild sobbings again, and turned away, saying, "Oh, I got to kill my chile, dey ain't no yuther way—killin' him wouldn't save de chile fum goin' down de river.†   (source)
  • "Lord bress you, chile," he replied.†   (source)
  • And he does help me, chile.†   (source)
  • "No, chile, no," answered she.†   (source)
  • 'And tonight I is galloping off to Chile to swobble a few human Chile beans.†   (source)
  • 'I is choosing Chile,' the Bloodbottler said, 'because I is fed up with the taste of Esquimos.†   (source)
  • Is you wishing to know why I is choosing Chile?'†   (source)
  • Human beans from Chile is very chilly.'†   (source)
  • It is important I has plenty of cold eats in this scuddling hot weather, and the next coldest thing to an Esquimo is a Chile bean.†   (source)
  • It ran as follows: Tarjeta Postal, Señor A Boudin, Galeria Becche, Santiago, Chile.†   (source)
  • Lil chile velly solly.†   (source)
  • (He begins to lilt simply) Li li poo lil chile Blingee pigfoot evly night Payee two shilly... (He is howled down.†   (source)
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  • Mr. Finch, I was wonderin' why it was so quiet like, an' it come to me that there weren't a chile on the place, not a one of 'em, and I said Miss Mayella, where the chillun?   (source)
    chile = pepper
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