| 单词 | roast |
| 例句 | It’s hot— too hot for a roast, but I’ll do one anyway, because Tom loves roast beef, and we can have ice cream afterwards to cool us down. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indian who was just entering the dining room with the serving tray stumbled, and the roast chicken rolled under a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re dead helpful... get me a roast ox if I said I was peckish.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My eyes widen and my mouth waters at the sight of the roasted sesame seeds sprinkled over sweet rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a waxed paper parcel containing a thick roast beef sandwich. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We were sitting at the same large table, drinking tea and eating roasted watermelon seeds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent on the evening breeze was a fragrant compound of roasting rice, wild-duck stew and wood smoke. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Kat and Kropp seize the masterpiece—the big dish with the brown, roasted sucking pigs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “This particular dragon has already evinced a fondness for roast pork. And roast dwarf is twice as tasty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One Sunday afternoon, I helped Mother prepare a roast for dinner. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We stood near the side table, which was loaded with mountains of food, from a whole roast hart with ivy threaded through its antlers to butter cookies as small and lacy as snowflakes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The two leopards paced over—still licking their lips from Piper’s pot roast—and butted their heads affectionately against the god’s legs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Three more strokes and Papa had the animal split—two sides of roast pork steaming from within. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced at Archer, thinking back to the night they’d met: Hatchet’s men trekking through the jungle, the smell of the roast and the idle chatter of his crew. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The food—fried okra, steamed corn on the cob, and pot roast that was so tender it fell right off the plastic fork—convinced me that Dolores was an even better cook than Maureen. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The courses appear in rapid succession—savory rabbit and roasted duck and fish, platters of vegetables and salads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I could only think of how they would taste with roast potatoes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From far below came a metallic clang, a falling saucepan lid perhaps; the pointless roast dinner was in the earliest stages of preparation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In front of the gate they met a large crowd gathered in amiable conversation around a bonfire on which a pig was roasting. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With deft hands, she slices open their bellies, pulls out their goopy organs, and washes their flesh in a bucket so they’re ready for roasting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo wondered where it led: probably to the girl’s secret lair, where she roasted her enemies so she could eat them at her dining table on the beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They ate roast whale meat for dinner that night, in a hall filled with many-headed giants, all of them shouting and happy and most of them drunk. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It was surrounded by high weeds and cacti, and inside some wild pigeons roasted. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He popped a roasted lark into his mouth and crunched it noisily, bones and all. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Colonel Julyan waded through the whole set lunch, starting with soup and fish, and going on to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I assure you that I do not roast children.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I am sixteen, and for dinner we had a roast chicken and a cake, both cooked in my new oven. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After roasting the bones in the oven for an hour, I simmered them for the rest of the day in a stockpot with the vegetables and some herbs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once my nose started clearing up on Day Five, my nausea got even worse, because that odd aroma of old pot roast mixed with mothballs was nobody’s idea of a stomach soother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like we might roast alive ourselves. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Not now in the sleeping bag with his fever, and during the day, if I'm not there to remove it, he'll be roasting in it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Both Miss Trotter and Ma Charles called any meat roasting in an outdoor fire “barbecue,” when barbecue to us was sauce from the grocery store or sweet and spicy red dust on potato chips. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He nestles into the spot next to me as we roast our marshmallows. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I find a man with a pushcart who is selling roasted peanuts, and I get a good bargain—he gives me two large cones filled with freshly roasted peanuts wrapped in newspaper. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z There was roasted lamb, new potatoes, peas with leeks and fennel; a rich and almost maddeningly delicious bottle of Château Latour. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I brought him hot tea and roasted almonds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As he peers inside he smells the smoke of a roaring fire, and a hint of snow and roasting chestnuts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They roasted hunks of pork on sharpened sticks. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There were small roast birds and pastries glistening with honey, cubes of meat in fragrant sauce, and curled crustaceans impaled on sticks. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She went out and bought a roasting chicken and a bakery store pie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And what do you think of that, Francis, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, eh? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Cutwater had begun gnawing away at a roasted pheasant, and his cheek swelled out as if he had a monstrous toothache. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z One man was trying to read a letter by the firelight, another was roasting a small piece of meat at the end of a stick. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z No one offered them any cheese or roast pork, but they soon found that the rumor Salvador had heard was correct. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We intend to roast it at once so that nobody will be any wiser. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of roast meat rose to her nostrils. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She fed him cold roast venison and coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She saw and smelled roasted chicken and warm, crusty bread scattered with seeds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman strides alongside the ditch under her basket of roasted corn. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We all sat down with a cup of hot chocolate and a bowl of roasted chestnuts to watch the ten o’clock news. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A young surgeon was summoned from Hartford to bleed her, and a nauseous brew of ground roasted toads was forced between her cracked lips, to no avail. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Even Mr. Gorley was gloomy: “Wheat’s going to roast right on the stalk.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Get out! Out of my sight, before I have you tortured and roasted!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They’d eaten roasted seaweed and whatever grasses or tubers they could find. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They burnt the great thighbones and feasted at their ease on fresh roast meat, as in their midst the godlike harper sang— Demodokos, honored by all that realm. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This was because of the howling and snarling and fighting of the wolves lured to the place by the scent of the roasting meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The women were boiling eggs, roasting meat, preparing cakes, sewing backpacks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull just shook his head and concentrated on the roast beef. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Peach and Aunt Goldie had arrived from Atlanta, and Aunt Goldie was roasting a turkey in the oven in a paper bag—“My secret recipe!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Kaz tracked Nina’s gaze to the top of the ring wall, high above the courtyard, where five men had been impaled on spikes like meat skewered for roasting, backs bent, limbs dangling. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Those beds you lay on that come down over the top of you and roast you, and you come out looking like rotisserie chicken. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I cooked a chicken and roasted potatoes and carrots. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He calls her Laurette; he eats a roasted duck every day at 3 P.M.; his mind accommodates a seemingly inexhaustible catalog of Latin binomial names. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Someone is talking about how many lemons for roasting chicken—and I remember chickadees. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z As they resumed their journey, Illyrio produced a bag of roasted chestnuts and began to speak once more of the dragon queen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She then sewed them shut and roasted them slowly in the big iron kettle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I spent the afternoon chopping a field’s worth of cabbage while a half pig roasted in the pit dug by the men in the flower garden. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d sat on bleachers in the sun, roasting like mutton, watching a jousting match. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I hated to do this—interrupt Mr. Ali’s Sunnshyne roast—but I had wrapped up my homework half an hour ago and I was ready to get busy. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Tayo walked over and knelt in front of the ribs roasting over the white coals of the fire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The play area was bordered by wood-slat benches where old-country people sat cracking roasted watermelon seeds with their golden teeth and scattering the husks to an impatient gathering of gurgling pigeons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There is the warm, yeasty smell of fresh bread and roasted chicken. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And the people no different from animals: Leah and all those men licking their lips, already tasting roasted meat in the smoke of the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She served roast turkey on Thanks- giv-ing and heart-shaped cakes on Saint Valentine’s Day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From my backseat car window, I would point my nose toward Kiddieland and breathe in the smells of roasting hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, and candied apples cooling on refreshment stand counters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No one had moved since the beginning of his address, not even to pinch their noses to keep out the smell of Big Anthony’s roasting flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I crept into Reverend Matyolo’s garden and stole some maize, which I roasted and ate right there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Pascagoula made a roast and Daddy’s got the wood all ready for a fire tonight in the relaxing room.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure tortures herself with daydreams of feasts laid out on long tables: platters of sliced pork loin, roasted apples, banana flambe, pineapples with whipped cream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the end they skewered bits of meat on branches and held them in the flames: and even then almost as much boy was roasted as meat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Then, if they had fuel for fire, the vendors began to skin and pluck and roast them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He also learned to use the stems of foxtail grass to spear grasshoppers, longheaded locusts, and dragonflies, which he roasted over a fire in late summer and autumn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I could barely choke down a piece of pot roast. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was fragrant with the smell of roasted meat and spices, and a slave girl with a turtle on one cheek was pouring pale green wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For me, Nochebuena meant the smell of onions and garlic cooking while my parents prepared the roasted pig. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The pit master lowered his head at every compliment, already thinking of improvements for the next roast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Enoch leaned in and whispered, “If you don’t find Miss Wren, I will personally roast you on a spit.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The smell of roast beef made Harry’s stomach ache with hunger, but they had barely taken three steps toward the Gryffindor table when Professor Slughorn appeared in front of them, blocking their path. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z That other world was suburban and endless, organized around pot roasts, blueberry pies, fireworks, ice cream sundaes, immaculate bathrooms, and small toy trucks that were loosed in wooded backyards with streams and glens. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, why not? Soup all round, followed by your famous roast beef. And another bottle of this claret.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I was “flamed”—roasted by fierce criticism—within an inch of my life for months. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was about to settle down to a warm fire and a roast fowl, and that wretched singer had to open his mouth, he thought mournfully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “We roast hot dogs and marshmallows,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z There were a couple of birds roasting on a spit as well, and as Will came to sit nearby, Serafina Pekkala flew down. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If she didn’t move, she’d end up right in the middle, like a monkey, like a hot roasted monkey. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The Great Hall of Winterf ell was hazy with smoke and heavy with the smell of roasted meat and fresh-baked bread. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I set the platter of roast beef down on the kitchen table and watch, hoping this doesn’t turn into something. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Must be nice,” Ron said abruptly, when they had sat down and started serving themselves roast beef and Yorkshire puddings. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Oiling themselves like roast meat on a spit, and bare backs and shoulders, on the street, in public, and legs, not even stockings on them, no wonder those things used to happen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They went home to a good Thanksgiving dinner of pot roast and home-made noodles and spent the afternoon listening to Papa reminisce how he had gone around Thanksgiving Day as a boy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We pull the wings and heads off the bugs we catch and roast them with salt and pepper. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many varieties of food on the table: red cookies, red candies, red roasted pigs, and red noodles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The last man to finish his roast beef put his knife and fork together decisively. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The air was thick with the smells of roasting meat and curdled, fermented mare's milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The boys fell upon roasted mealies and boiled pumpkins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There were concession stands there, too, like at a farmers’ market, selling roasted peanuts and cotton candy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z A giant boar’s head came first in order, then pasties and whole suckling pigs, pigeons and geese roasted with feathers on. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Last winter he had watched in horror while a family of Cyclopes prepared to roast Jason and Piper with hot sauce. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After he left, Kainene said, “He roasted a fantastic bush rat for us last week. But you would have thought it was a rack of lamb the way he went on about it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Fortunately, they've both been roasted already so they mostly need to be heated up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Nearly all the adults entering the airless dining room were nauseated by the prospect of a roast dinner, or even roast meat with salad, and would have been content with a glass of cool water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A roast beef bigger than a horse, set on a giant platter that took up the entire front room, surrounded by steaming potatoes and parsnips, and loaves of fresh bread. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time, I have the rabbits and squirrel roasting, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My dad is home early from teaching, and I can already smell roast chicken in the oven when I walk in. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z He would meet his friends in the evening at his primary school, where there was a coal grill to roast them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I thought about saying we oughta roast that duck and make omelets from the eggs, but sassy as Biddy done got, I figured she might stab me with her fork. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “So could I—with a roast onion. Come, we’ll go down.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “His lordship slew him for calling him Lord Snow. The goats were good, though. We milked the mother and roasted up the kids.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So instead, Yan Chang and I roasted chestnuts on top of the little coal stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the rack above the charcoal fire, chestnuts roasted in a covered pan. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Iorek ate his meat raw, of course, but he spitted its joint on a sharp stick and laid it to roast across the fire for the two of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It sounds farfetched, but like a roast forsaken in the oven or a rescheduled dental appointment, childbirth is one of those minor details that tends to slip the minds of most soap opera characters. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The smell of roasted potatoes and spiced meat drifted out of the restaurant. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I could hear the master’s voice, Don’t let that host touch your teeth for if you bite God in two you’ll roast in hell for eternity. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time . . . until he noticed that the room was growing darker. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, there is pernil roasting in the oven the delicious smell filling the house and Maria says, You should just eat a little bit. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z If a lightning bolt struck the dinghy, we’d be roasted like crickets on a radiator. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Matt guessed he was the only one there who’d actually feasted on roast pheasant and suckling pig. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s John Jr., carrying in a tray of rice crackers wrapped in roasted nori, salted nuts, strips of dried squid. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z On winter days it swims with the odor of roasting chestnuts; on summer evenings it becomes slow and drowsy, full of sleepy conversations and the scraping of heavy iron chairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Cutting off a nice thick slab of salt pork, I roasted it, and with a piece of cold com bread made a sandwich. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a week she bought a roast and served it for Sunday dinner. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I have to go. Muff started a roast for me, and Henry will expect dinner when he gets done making a man out of poor Beto.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Supper was a plate of roasted goat served on a bed of sliced onions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The witch-queen took her portion of roasted hare, and one of the knives, and sprinkled a little of the herbs onto the dish. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, very slowly, he ate the piece of meat roasted with onions, the white rice, and the slices of fried bananas all on the same plate together. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then came lamprey pie, honeyed ham, buttered carrots, white beans and bacon, and roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “A man has to keep his trade secrets private,” Maddox said, taking a bite of pork roast. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They were sitting on Muff and Bud’s back porch so they could enjoy the fine weather while the roast was cooking inside. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He had supervised the roasting, now he was going to show us how you cut up a pig. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z My body’s thinner than it’s ever been and my battle against hunger is so fierce that sometimes the animal part of me gives in to the temptation of buttered bread or roasted meat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was still morning, so she kindled a fire from the pot of coals and roasted yams while she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were out-of-town visitors from Omaha and Chattanooga, outraged over the price of their hot roasted chestnuts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "Who would dare to serve such an ill-cooked roast at the future queen's wedding? " he cries. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I’d mash the beans with roasted garlic and sage and serve them on toasted rounds of homemade sourdough bread. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Jhiqui roasted the meat with sweet- grass and firepods, basting it with honey as it cooked, and there were melons and pomegranates and plums and some queer eastern fruit Dany did not know. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “The pilau there, such a lovely smell, and it has roasted nuts in it—or no, I think the fritters will last longer....” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw smoke and could smell the pigs that had been roasting on a spit most of the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z You could also buy beef and live chickens there, as well as roasted mice, a popular snack in Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There are large wooden bowls of steaming beans, peas and squash, platters of roasted fish and venison, baskets of bread and fruit. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The roast of beef, with Yorkshire pudding sticking in the cold gravy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "His hoodlums would attack and denounce the white meat of a roasted chicken." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The odor of roast chicken wafted over him from the big, wood-fired oven. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Barons were pulling teeth out of Jews to get their money, or roasting bishops who contradicted them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like one of those roast things celebrities have, but better. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The stuff tastes like something you’d use to tenderize pot roast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Kat knows the way to roast horse-flesh so that it’s tender. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The other food—sliced turkey, ham, roast beef, and salami, a big tub of tuna salad, and meatballs in a plug-in pot—was off-limits. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Grandfather found a small bag of roasted coffee beans the thieves had overlooked, and he cooked a pot for us, army style. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you want roast beef or turkey, they slice it right there, so it’s fresh. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She roasted some of the kudu, though, for immediate use. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He tackled an enormous slab of roast prime rib, which he consumed in a matter of minutes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, they built a fire and roasted Dicey’s fish over it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up! Matsika will roast everyone in the Cow’s Guts until he gets what he wants. Then he ’11 come down here with a hundred bulldozers'?' The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Gridlines make it like we on a charcoal grill, roasting like corncobs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Should we split up the list? I can make the beef stew and the cheesecake. Do you want to do the roasted vegetables and carrot cake?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He wanted to bang their heads together as they greeted him with loud convivial cries and invited him generously to pull up a chair and eat their chestnuts and roasted potatoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Food sellers roasted mealies and peanuts—the smell almost drove Nhamo mad. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Catelyn would gladly have spitted the querulous old man and roasted him over a fire, but she had only till evenfall to open the bridge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the end of the first week they killed and roasted a deer, but they agreed to eat only half of it and salt the rest for the days that lay ahead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Rather than our typical roasted pig and black beans, Airs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z We roasted sweet chestnuts in the fire and they were pretty good except incredibly hard to peel and the skins got under your fingernails and hurt for days. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Arya was thinking how long it had been since she'd had a slice off a pork roast when she saw the first of the prisoners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘It sure is roasting in here,’ she said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Said he: “Sit down and help yourselves. Shake off your wonder. Here we’ve been waiting for you all this time, and our mouths watering for good roast pig!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The last time he had been buried under roast beef sandwiches. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For Gogol’s lunches they stand at the deli to buy cold cuts, and in the mornings Ashima makes sandwiches with bologna or roast beef. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The smell of roasting wood wafted out into the room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Mushroom soup, bitter greens with tomatoes the size of peas, rare roast beef sliced as thin as paper, noodles in a green sauce, cheese that melts on your tongue served with sweet blue grapes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Then I draw a line in the dirt a few feet from the force field as a reminder to keep back, and Peeta and I settle down to roast nuts and sear cubes of rat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds mounded in her basket and stirred her hunger with thoughts of hot roasted nuts on cold winter nights. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets were filled with traders from all over Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique, all their different languages and songs mixing with the smell of sweating bodies, spices, fried fish, and roasted maize. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The idea was to make the subject squirm, not roast. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Trapped under roast beef sandwiches! Well, there are worse fates.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The roasting sticks he held over the fire shook a little. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Dude, careful we don’t roast and eat you.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z By the time I’ve finished scrubbing the roasting pan, the sky is dark and the yard has faded from view. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I’m gnawing on a big roasted turkey leg. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They sweep me into the dining room and I get a real meal -roast beef and peas and soft rolls -although my portions are still being strictly controlled. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We ordered the same thing pretty much every Friday—pot roast, Brussels sprouts, and mashed potatoes—and when it came, we ate every bite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Well, what did you think, that I had a roasted duck in my pocket?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In the morning, Eunjoo heated the barley tea and poured it into bowls of yesterday’s cold rice and served it with roasted seaweed, sautéed anchovies, and kimchee. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z With every step up James’s staircase, the smells of spices and roasting meat grew stronger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z See the concrete bam where workers live, the small church with tall voodoo drums for calling spirit, the wash flapping, women roasting peanuts, men slapping dominoes, pigs running here and there. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He misses the press of people, the noise and chaos, black Model Ts rattling along the cobblestones, the treacly smell of street vendors’ peanuts roasting in sugar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, carrot cake, and candy canes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An old man sold roasted peanuts on a corner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Though my aunts and uncles tried to make it festive with loud music and a giant feast of tamales and roasted goat, Olga’s absence floated silently around us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “When it gets over a hundred,” she said, “the flowers dry up and there’s no food for the bees. They stay in the hives fanning themselves. Sometimes they just roast.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “See that no creature goes near them. Stand guard night and day. If just one of these dormice is missing, you’ll both end up on a roasting spit. Is that clear?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Miss Trotter and JimmyTrotter had a skinned deer roasting on a spit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Thirteen soldiers were killed by lightning, too, the coins in their pockets melted and their flesh roasted. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of roasting meat, and he saw one man skinning a dog for his stewpot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It smelled like money: roasted lamb and hothouse flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At these gatherings, the host serves roast pig, duck, beef, sweet cakes, and beautiful candies. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She bought a large container of beet soup, a green salad, sauerkraut, roasted potatoes, and Polish sausages warm from the pan. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He had us move to the side of the picture window so the photo would capture the roasted duck with its head dangling from a juice-covered rope. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There Telemakhos and the two herdsmen were already carving roast young pork, and mixing amber wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I let myself imagine the way Lacey’s SUV would smell after just one day of roasting in the sun, and I’ll admit that a kind of serenity washed over me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We dipped them in the creamy soup, thick with onions and bits of roasted meat, and jammed them between our lips. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Lourdes pedals and sweats, pedals and sweats until she pictures rivulets of fat, like the yellow liquid that pours from roasting chickens and turkeys, oozing from her pores as she rides through Nebraska. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She drew him a map on the back of a mauve flyer, which advertised a chicken roast to raise money for a young girl who needed a new kidney. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Mama would’ve roasted us a big turkey, even if she had to go out to some remote woods and kill the dang thing herself. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “Emily, I know it’s far too hot, but Leon’s absolutely dying for one of Betty’s roasts. He goes on about them all the time. I heard him boasting about them to Mr. Marshall.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was some grumbling about seal being fit only for dogs, but the men soon got used to it, especially when it was served as a succulent roast with onions and potatoes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “I had my doubts as well, Snow, but why not let her try? It was that, or let Stannis roast me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He sighed, but didn’t try to convince me to stay, and helped me pack my duffel with bottles of well water and garlic- greasy hunks of roasted manioc wrapped in their own leaves. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Does that mean you want to do the beef stew, or do you want to make the roasted vegetables?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Then they'd roast themselves like weenies on their towels until they were hot and sweating again, and then they'd go right back in. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z On Sundays, we would have a new roast chicken for dinner. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His grandma had only four Sunday dinners in her repertoire—chicken- fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, pot roast, and corned beef—but they were all good. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “They didn’t hit Marigold,” he says between bites of pot roast at the kitchen table. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I glanced hurriedly through it, curried prawns, roast veal, asparagus, cold chocolate mousse—was this lunch or dinner, I could not see, lunch I suppose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the sudden tense silence, the air wrinkling between them all, Georgina got up and said, “Everyone ready for my roast lamb?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Being a rather old hen it would have been better roasted, but I could not help that; he would find it edible if a bit tough. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Piper kept yelling commands and using her cornucopia to bounce coconuts and roasted chickens off the turtle’s eyeballs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I pick up a small roasted bird, bite into it, and my tongue floods with orange sauce. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Using gestures, I bought a whole roasted chicken and something like thick potato chips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell cashews roasting and ripe star fruit and the scent seemed to dance with the notes in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And on the next day, when he came back, we smelled opium’s strange, sweet smell—like roasted peanuts—clinging to Black Dog’s clothes, and we knew where he had been. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I got through the back door just as Viola pulled the roast from the oven. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The porridge was ready, a different matter from the stiff bran mush of Pulefen Farm; it tasted like the roast chestnuts of Terra, and burned the mouth splendidly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z How could I spend thirty cents on a kilo of beef roast, when I could get twice as many potatoes for a fifth of that price? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A bowl of small, round, roasted red potatoes is passed around, and afterward a salad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Rice, oatmeal, dehydrated potatoes, canned roast beef, gingersnap cookies, sugar, coffee, and chocolate were some of the items packed in watertight tin containers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She could roast it over mopane coals with a little salt for flavoring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you hadn’t told me,” was the bitter response, “I’d never realize it. Let’s get back to the cliff. I’m roasting.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z My socks are neatly folded over and my loafers polished a deep shiny brown, like roasted coffee beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Are you trying to burn me to the stake? Don’t set fire to that. You’ll roast me alive." Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon we’ll cook hot dogs and smother them in ketchup, then roast marshmallows over the fire until the marshmallows burst into flames and turn black. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Severed hands clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She’s picked up roast chicken and side dishes at a gourmet shop in town. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She aimed her cornucopia and shot a pot roast over the cats’ heads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had a cat, a beaver, a possum, a snapping turtle, and a pig that he got after my parents had a pig roast in our backyard. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She dreamed of roast beef, sweet wine, and bitter herbs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a tapering soot stain as high as a man on an outside wall where two tramps had once, outrageously, lit a bonfire to roast a carp that was not theirs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I will be rich and happy and eat roast waterfowl every day. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z We’re in the middle of saying grace over pot roast and potatoes when the first gunshots ring out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Comfort food: pot roast, green beans, and garlic mashed potatoes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Henry ordered an enormous dinner—pea soup, roast beef, a salad, mashed potatoes with gravy, coffee, pie—and ate it silently and with a great deal of methodical relish. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Only if it consists of a sizable portion of roast lamb.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z If you got up too fast, you were likely to get beaned by beans or potted by a pot roast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And do you remember how an easterly breeze brought odors in from Chinatown, roasting pork and punk and black tobacco and yen shi? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Most people in Ember had potatoes at every meal—mashed, boiled, stewed, roasted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant was warm and clean, full of the fragrance of roasting meat, freshly baked wheat-flour bread, and strong, rich coffee. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting down together around the fire, they ate roasted ears of corn, sweet blueberries, and picked the delicate meat off the tiny bird bones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z After a long day of roasting in the sun, no one is thrilled about the walk for a wash, so we rarely bathe. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In our bellies there is gruel, mean hospital stuff, and in our bags roast pork. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "Roll your eyes at this, Billy! Meat pies, looks like, and fruit tarts— and a brace of roast pheasant! We'll eat like kings!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Her skin was damp with sweat at all the places where Beto lay curled against her, roasting her with the heat of his small body. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the cave, they found a fire, a rabbit roasting, and Serafina Pekkala stirring something in a small iron pot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Victory was wiping the roasting stick with leaves while Joe leveled the fire. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bertha hollered, bending over to peer into her oven at a rib roast and some baked potatoes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, he said, “That’s a lovely smile!” and after he left them, the children went back to their roasting rats. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The stew smelled like thyme and roast mutton that night, and when Beatrice lifted the lid, the fragrant steam wafted up in a hot cloud. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m on fix you and Mister Johnny a roast and I’m on... fix some...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “And roasted the turtle’s head,” Jason said appreciatively. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then came mutton roasted with leeks and carrots, served in trenchers of hollowed bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Later, as we sat around the bonfire singing folk songs and roasting marshmallows, I thought: This is what regular kids do. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She pushed aside the cloth sitting on top of a basket of roasted ears of corn and passed him some. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z We see a zombie in the corner eating a guard’s decapitated head like it’s roasted chicken. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Would you like to buy some crawfish or minnows? Maybe you’d like some fresh vegetables or roasting ears.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Utgardaloki clapped his hands, and a long wooden trough was brought in, with all manner of roasted animals in it: geese and oxen and sheep, goats and rabbits and deer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z "We could make a fire and roast them like chickens." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Too early for a campfire, and I didn’t figure they were roasting marshmallows. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, bring us some of that roast beef.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After the meal—cold fish with avocado sauce, roast suckling pig in brandy, and chocolate mousse—they dismissed the waiters and bolted the doors to the dining room. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Gideon and I had gone to a Quaker meeting once, because they were having roast beef and sweet potatoes afterward. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Knowing Mama, she’ll make roasted sweet potatoes drizzled with honey and sprinkled with cinnamon, like she always does on special occasions. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z My legs, arms, torso, underarms, and parts of my eyebrows have been stripped of the Muff, leaving me like a plucked bird, ready for roasting. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She could smell the odor of burning flesh, no different than horseflesh roasting in a firepit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Peewee complained that he missed the roast beef. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t stay here anymore,” she said as she feasted on bananas and roasted yams by the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They set up tables in the kitchen and served roast beef—the Jaaxes did not like turkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt all the muscles in my hand stretch and tear around my thumb, like he was pulling a drumstick off of a roast chicken. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But even the teachers got some—the best kebab in Isfahan, with buttered rice and roasted tomatoes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “They killed a goat and roasted its meat. ‘Do you know what would be really funny?’ suggested the chief baboon. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The cooks served up great slabs of fresh horse- meat, charred outside and bloody red within, with roast onions and neeps ... and for once, the common soldiers ate as well as the lords and knights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A carver lifted cuts of each roast meat to put on trenchers before the two. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I imagined the plump body, roasting in our barrel, like a chicken. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Then she took a big roast chicken out of the oven and said, “There! Now if I can keep the cats out of here, we’re all set.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I watched as he tried and failed to wedge his knife tightly enough to cut his roast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then Bull, in an expansive mood, shouted, “Chow down, troops,” lifting a piece of roast from the platter and biting into it before the meat even touched his plate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So day by day we lingered, feasting long on roasts and wine, until a year grew fat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a lush mane of gold-brown hair like Hazel’s, and the same dark complexion, brown as a roasted coffee bean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A huge, golden-brown roasted chicken, fried potatoes, tiny green peas. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Toasting bread and cheese, coring apples, placing chestnuts in the fire to roast. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Kitchen smells, of the roast, of baking cheese, of the gravy, a mixture of onion and garlic and strong seasoning, went to his head—he couldn’t wait to eat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagined the taste of the roast beef and saliva filled her mouth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad, sharing roasted peanuts with me in Central Park; wandering the halls of museums; celebrating my birthday. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He gazed into the flames, a spit of darkening meat roasting there. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Salva could hardly wait for it to be skinned and butchered and roasted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z While James sat aside, silent, they roasted the fish as they had the hotdogs and peeled off the hot meat with their fingers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The trick was to bathe the meat in smoke without actually roasting it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee—real coffee, not Victory Coffee—came floating out into the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The air smelled of smoke and roasting meat and mulled wine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It sounded like a rump roast being dropped onto a basketball court. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We went on over to Lizabeth’s and I roast us a chicken and made a tomato and basil salad with hunks of cheese and olive oil drizzled on top. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The smell of roasting pork on the farm would alert guards, leading to beatings and weeks of half rations, so they ate purloined pork raw. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The air was heavy with the smells of wine and ale and roasted meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Catching and roasting rats became a passion for Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This casserole sucks, but I like the way you roasted the walnuts. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Whatever she was cooking, it wasn’t pot roast. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He sat down to carve up the buffalo and roast the meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted scallops or a langosta to roast over the fire. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy brought her the plate of roast beef, and she wolfed it down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Soon she had it roasting over the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I pushed the roast beef around on my plate so Mama wouldn’t feel bad, but thinking about Bucky so hard made me lose my appetite. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z There’s a carving station with turkey, roast beef, pork shoulder, and leg of lamb. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There was barbecued pork, roast pork with an oyster sauce, and cold boiled chicken. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I was roasting in the lined silk jacket and pants obviously made with a cooler day in mind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Whole roasted cows and pigs and goats still turning on spits. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the middle was a great, golden roasted bird, perhaps a goose or turkey. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “And I wouldn’t know that your favorite food is roast beef.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The table was piled high with food: matzah, roast beef, hard- boiled eggs, goblets of deep red wine. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Salads and roast chickens and vegetables and soups and such. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He’s eaten his tandoori roast chicken, but the curried peas and potatoes are piled in a lumpy hill on the side of his plate. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Ever eat a pork chop? A roast beef? A liver?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The babe within me makes me long for cider and sweetmeats, roast meat, rich milk, and apricots. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We first heard the bulls while we were eating our dinner of cornbread, roasted venison, and green watercress gathered from below the spring. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Frypan had known Thomas would be coming late, so he’d left a plate full of roast beef and potatoes; a note announced there were cookies in the cupboard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We got little bags of puffed rice, hemp seeds, and roasted chickpeas. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A man just ahead was selling skewers of roast meat from a cart, and die procession halted as the Poor Fellows moved him out of the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She roasted the bacon and washed up the mugs and knives and sprinkled fleabane about to keep the fleas down. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the two men were served cuts from a roast and bread from a bread basket. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We talk about the birds and fish we roasted on Nevis, and I tell him again about the mounds of peas, squash, and venison at the Werowocomoco feast. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Who was the woman walking by with the roasted corn? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle shared his food with Salva—a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I took it off and hung it on the hook by the sink and hobbled into the dining room hiding behind SanJuanna and the roast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The meals are ambitious: poached fish; creamy potato gratins; golden, puffed chickens roasted with whole lemons in their cavities. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Generally a good big roast chicken. She can gum that for days.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “He probably want some of the roast beef,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother decided not to roast a joint or make a set of pies because most would remain uneaten. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Banga built a fire and roasted the tiny creatures on a spit. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s favorite dish was a peanut roast which she made to resemble meat, but which tasted like something else. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mags has also plaited several bowls that Peeta has filled, with roasted nuts. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Last night a baker was roasted in his own oven. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I guess so. And they almost roasted me when they did. They were doing a huge bum that got out of control.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Cecilia moved round behind Betty to see what everyone else could see—a huge blackened tray recently pulled from the oven bearing a quantity of roast potatoes that still sizzled mildly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The head waiter marched into the room flanked by the drummers and fifers, rolling a huge roast before him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pot roast, honey, nothing special. But we won’t be eating until seven-thirty or eight—your dad had a late tee time.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The table was loaded with food—pizza boxes, bottles of soda, and a stack of roast beef sandwiches on a silver platter. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Aggo gave an urchin a copper for a skewer of honey- roasted mice and nibbled them as he rode. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From the kitchen the odor of the bursting juices of roasting turkey began to fill the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In no time, the nine children were eating a fine omelet and the sweet roasted plomms. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We had a good meal, a roast chicken, new green beans, mashed potatoes, a salad, and some apple-pie and cheese. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The iron weight looked like something borrowed from Sarah’s kitchen—a heavy little hooked thing I’d once seen her hang meat on to roast. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then I smelled the chicken roasting and I ran off to get washed up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Without Mother there were no homemade pies now, no mashed potatoes, no roasts that sent good smells throughout the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I don't know why because he totally deserved to be roasted, but I guess I felt kinda bad for the dude. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “She said she’d drop me off here in the morning. Then she has to go and get groceries for our dinner. She’s cooking a roast chicken.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car, chanting: “Buy from me, oh, I will sell well to you.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z On Sunday afternoons, after high mass, they went to baseball games and ate roasted peanuts from brown paper cones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I actually got to wear my ear muffs while I stood outside with Connor roasting marshmallows over the fire—well, he roasted marshmallows for me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It didn’t hurt that we roasted it with whole bulbs of fragrant wild garlic pulled from the yard. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was just a creepy story, the kind you told while you were roasting marshmallows or huddled together at a slumber party. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Some of the men went off to hunt and came back with meat to roast. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “This ain’t much of a rally. I went to one in Arkansas that makes this one look like a marshmally roast.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The clown showed us to a table stacked with food—the same boiled nuts and roasted meats that had tempted us at the carnival. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z On the board she placed olives and radishes and several eggs which she had roasted in the ashes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As the bird roasted, Salva could hardly keep his eyes off it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t like it. Taste this. It’s roasted eggplant with lemon and garlic.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was getting dark and almost everybody was hanging around their barbecue pits where they’d built little fires and were roasting hot dogs or burgers or marshmallows. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z An urgent whisper pushed its way into my dream about roasted pheasant stuffed with chestnuts. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The room was crowded with tables and chairs and as many people as church on Easter Sunday, except church was never cloudy with tobacco smoke nor the smell of roast beef. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We stopped and bought roasted ears of com from a woman standing by the side of the road with a charcoal brazier. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, then, knowing us back from the Dark Land, Kirke came freshly adorned for us, with handmaids bearing loaves, roast meats, and ruby-colored wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He don’t say nothing to that, so I go head and get the roast out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Isa set the oven to four hundred degrees, shoved the roasting pan inside, and let the oven door bang closed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z As Harry was helping himself to roast potatoes, the doors of the Great Hall opened again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The smell of the roasting pig drifted out and called to everyone, gardeners or not. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Your banqueting young lords are here in force, I gather, from the fumes of mutton roasting and strum of harping—harping, which the gods appoint sweet friend of feasts!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The smells of the roasted animals made my mouth water. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The kitchen was filled with the smell of the roasting turkey John had prepared, with a stuffing of sausage, mushrooms, walnuts, apples, and spiced bread crumbs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He was as polite as an angel all the way through the roast and potatoes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Good. I’m glad now that I had the sense to start a chicken roasting. Fresh bread and chicken should make a pretty good meal for a couple of hungry bachelors like us, eh?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the smells changed hour by hour—an ever-changing perfume of roast meats, leeks and onions, fresh-baked bread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were black sausages, which were roasted or fried. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He wanted the finest roast beef possible; he wanted the wines to be superb. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I roasted the bird in a pan surrounded by the potatoes and chunks of winter squash. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They had seen the smoke from our fires and smelled roasting meat, so they had come looking for us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Supper was roast chicken with carrots and potatoes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The rest they sliced and skewered, roasted with care, then took it off the fire and heaped it up on platters. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, a goose roasts in the oven and the black-and-white dog, Monty, waits under the table for scraps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That night her cooks roasted her a kid with dates and carrots, but Dany could only eat a bite of it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marshmallows are roasted, wine is consumed in heroic quantities, stories are shared. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “You strike me as the kind of girl who’s one day going to be eating roast chicken and those on-fire desserts just as much as you want.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I told her how I often recalled Sunday mornings at home when I dandled her on my knee while Mum was in the kitchen making a roast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in despair when he returned, but the beasts had been roasted and eaten and nothing could be done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A fox roasts over a fire, and my mouth waters at the smell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, our helpers cut brown roasted ducks and arranged white moon-shaped cakes on a large blue plate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was shooting an apple out of their roast pig’s mouth. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I think as I roast the birds and Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Red and crispy roasted pig, brown and golden duck, steaming dumplings, plump fried shrimp, and all kinds of sweet cakes! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His captor returned shortly, carrying two tankards and a roasted duck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Green chile was roasted and dried, and red chile was tied into colorful ristras. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not alone in this feeling and I joined a group of young men who engaged in secret evening expeditions to the university’s farmland, where we built a fire and roasted mealies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had roast venison and fried catfish and stewed squirrel and blackeyed peas and cornbread and flour gravy and butter and wild honey and hog-plum jelly and fresh buttermilk. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Come evening there were sliced hams, boiled eggs, and roasted larks stuffed with garlic and onions, with pale ales and Myrish fire wines to help in their digestion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Crushed acorns? My belly hurts, but that will only make it worse. Leave me be, sister. I’m dreaming of roast chicken.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mom roasted a turkey for the holiday, but Dad ate little of it, still obviously upset from having to cut off his men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We took jars for water, potatoes to roast, and army blankets and hiked up Bair’s Creek one Friday afternoon to a nice little knoll at the base of the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom sat up front with him, talking in Farsi and sharing a bag of tokhmeh, roasted watermelon seeds, which are the favorite snack of True Persians everywhere. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Miss Cee, it was a roast what was ordered and we’ve been at it all day in temperatures above the boiling point of blood.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘He stands a fair chance of being spitted for an Orc, or of being roasted by the Yellow Face. But I fancy he’ll look after himself.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z This is followed by succulent roast duck, all you can eat. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He was still ahorse, dreaming of a long hot soak, a roast fowl, and a featherbed, when the king's steward told him that Grand Maester Pycelle had convened an urgent meeting of the small council. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The smell of roasting chillis tickled my nose as we ducked through the narrow doorway into the tiny kitchen at the back of the teashop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Slabs of ham, poached eggs, the leg of a roast chicken, thick Irish stew, lemon meringue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She found a number of large grasshoppers, pulled off the heads to remove the guts, and roasted them on a flat stone over the fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Green chile was roasted and set to dry. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her words go well with the smell of a roast chicken dinner that is about pressing out the walls of the house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Flames leaped to the cobwebs and roared down the corridor in a flash fire, roasting spiders by the thousands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z By Thursday nights, the Sunday chicken that Grandma had roasted was down to a few threads in the soup we would eat. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’d give anything now for a tiny piece of moon cake or a leg of roasted duck. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the money Pa gave me in my pocket, I approach a food cart selling roasted crickets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got near us, we captured the poor pig, slaughtered it, and then built a fire and ate roast pork underneath the stars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That night in the great hall the victors feasted on roast meats and fresh-caught fish, washed down with rich red wines from the castle cellars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Servants set down dishes—roasted goose shining with currant glaze, oysters and stewed ramps, acorn cakes and whole fish stuffed with rose hips. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their roots could be roasted like yams or even eaten raw if she was really hungry. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates, and wine. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were great loaves of brown bread, mounds of turnips and sweetcom and pease, immense hams and roast geese and trenchers dripping full of venison stewed with beer and barley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She arranged mattresses and cushions along the walls of the living room, placed bowls of candy and roasted almonds on the table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They built a fire, put a heavy metal spit through the pig, and began to roast it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We had roast beef, mashed potatoes, carrots, carrot cake, and milk for supper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Supper began with beef-and-barley soup, followed by a brace of quail and a roast pike near three feet long, with turnips, mushrooms, and plenty of hot bread and butter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She thought about telling him that, along with the roast, there'd been mashed potatoes and creamed corn, his new favorite. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I hurried up and down the stairs with the remaining trays of soup, then the roasted tongue and mushrooms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her nostrils quivered at the smells of roasting meats and fresh hot bread and pies stuffed with pork and raisins, but her guts still trembled with excitement, and she was content just to smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Also on board were two pigs purchased by McNeish for future pork roasts, as well as the rats and mice that stow away on any ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z If this had not been so, the thief would have been roasted alive. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Three successive times, they encountered and were rescued by well-fed Aborigines whose home was that desert, and who plied the explorers with fish, fern cakes, and roasted fat rats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘See—here’s some nice roast chicken or some veal stew. Why don’t you have a little supper with me?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My plan was to slow roast the chicken pieces on a wood fire, and this would keep the chicken from drying out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Last night George had eaten two plates of roast beef, veal and ham pie, carrots sweet as candy, and a mysterious dessert called meringue pudding. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z One peddler was hawking rats roasted on a skewer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "And then they get plucked and roasted and eaten for supper." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Corn was roasted to make chicos, blue corn was ground into meal, and the rest was stored for the animals. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of children was roasting two rats around a fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His mom made him get roasted chicken and a plain baked potato. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Johnny and Mirren carried the food down in metal roasting pans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Our dinner consists of salmon and salad, with wild blackberries and roasted fingerling potatoes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A fat and happy army, roasting meat and fresh bread, telling stories in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate the roasted birds, seasoning them with lemon juice, and then another witch brought some blueberries she’d found below the screen, and then the witches gathered around the fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I, the only daughter, usually get roasted chicken, dried bamboo soup, and all-I-can-eat pudding. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He learned to roast turkeys and to drive a Pierce-Arrow sedan, and he perfected the English he had begun to learn before he left Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she’d built herself. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When the birds were ready to roast, Mama packed them close together along with wild onion bulbs and then pressed rich, streambed muck carefully around them. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He roasted the langosta over the fire, and later we crawled into the hut to spend our first night on the silent island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d need fire to roast the roots, but until then the leaves could be eaten like lettuce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I popped down out of sight and I heard William saying, "Your roast lamb, madam. And which vegetable would you like? Peas or carrots?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He speared iguanas and roasted them on open fires, claiming that their meat was tastier than chicken. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Actually, the note was okay. I’m just a moron. And the biggest problem was when I got to the flowers. The rangers didn’t see me at first, and I almost got roasted.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Cathy looked down at her plate while she ate a sliver of roast lamb. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But the walk made him hungry, and it was then he realized there weren’t any street vendors selling pretzels or hot dogs, roasted nuts or souvlaki. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were plates of roast beef, baked potatoes, buttered carrots, fresh bread, and a whole bunch of other foods I hadn’t had in a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She shelled the acorns, ground them fine, roasted them with a bit of cornmeal, and that night the family had sweet acorn cakes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z ‘We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In San Antonio, they had made their own presents or exchanged oranges and small bags of roasted pecans dusted in cinnamon sugar. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the first week, he caught the captain watching him as he helped dig a trench under the roasting sun. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “We could do roasted vegetables for the side dish. We’ve never messed those up before.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But all the rest gave alms, enough to fill the beggar’s pack with bread and roast meat. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, and carrots were all dumped together in a roasting pan with olive oil, salt, and pepper. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The smell of roasting meat was thick in the air. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As often as not I’d find her in an apron, hovering over a roast with a phone in each hand, one a client, the other an uncle or friend calling to offer condolences. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They led him into their encampment, and they gave him roasted meat to eat, and strong drink to quench his thirst. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When I came home, Alicia on my hip, a can of freshly roasted coffee in my hand, Mami was peeling ñame and yautía tubers for that night’s supper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then he took up the rabbit, spitted it, and soon had it roasting. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z With every step up James’s staircase, the smells of spices and roasting meat grew stronger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Luckily Adam found Dr. Tilson at his supper and dragged him from his roast beef. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While the corn finished roasting, I removed the chicken from the grill and set it aside to rest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “What do you mean, it’s tomato soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie?” said Violet Beauregarde. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “Then you roast the dog and plop it right in there. Ready to go.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When it was Nok's turn, the woman slid a bird off the roasting rack and started hacking it to pieces with a long butcher knife. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I had never thought about where Viola came from; she had always simply been there, punching down dough, peeling apples, preparing huge roasts in winter and frying up mountains of chicken in summer. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Bull rocked with laughter, picked up his roast with his fingers and resumed eating. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I sniff the coffee, the rich, black, oily French roast we all prefer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was some of the best roast pork he’d ever eaten. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She had ordered a roast for this evening and it would be too stifling to eat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “In the khalasar, they used berries like these to flavor roasts,” she decided. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Burned, Victarion thought, like a man who has been roasted in the flames until his flesh chars and crisps and falls smoking from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Today we have cold roast chicken, tomato-basil salad, Camembert, baguettes, and strawberry lemonade in the dining room. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He stayed no longer, but took his heartache home, and found the robust suitors there at work, skinning goats and roasting pigs in the courtyard. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I look around at the dishes piled in the sink, the strips of beet peel staining a wooden cutting board, a saucepan half full of translucent cabbage, a roasting pan charred and waxed with grease. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It had an unusual, roasted flavor that she immediately liked. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “My troupe is right behind me and they are very hungry. Where is the roast beef?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “I like roast beef and mashed potatoes with homemade gravy and...hmm...carrots? No. Peas. No. Carrots.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “If you’d rather do the beef stew, I can do the roasted vegetables.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Around them peddlers were selling dog sausages, roast onions, and unborn puppies on a stick, but Dany had no need of such. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Its members come from all walks of life and get together every few weeks to take in a movie or enjoy a weenie roast. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When the doorbell rings, I run to get it, thinking it’s the butcher delivering the roast pig wrapped in foil. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z "There are birds in this grass. Would you fancy a roast quail to break your fast this morning?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A little old man with a baby carriage made into a pushcart with a charcoal burner, and the smell of roasting chestnuts, and snow on the ground. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They went with the pot roast done in the pressure cooker along with the limp carrots and the flaccid potatoes and the onions with their slippery layers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I got a load a Mister Leefolt’s shirts to iron and after this I’m on get a pot roast going. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There was roast duck and sweet, brined pork and tender, spiced lamb. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z One day when we were eating roast chicken, I ripped the thigh from the drumstick with my hands. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She tried brewing drinks of roasted grain or roots, but her nervous system was not deceived by a beverage that resembled coffee only in appearance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Randall’s visitors sipped spiced rum as Big Anthony was doused with oil and roasted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then came the Sunday of the spectacular dinner that was to end the revival—for which dinner Deborah and all the other women had baked, roasted, fried, and boiled for many days beforehand. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z At a carving station, a burly man in a white apron sliced roast beef from an enormous rare haunch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They tried holding the whole carcass on a stake over the fire, but the stake burnt more quickly than the pig roasted. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z If I hear “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” one more time, I’m gonna do a Christmas barf. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Violet roasted the garlic and washed and chopped the anchovies. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z "Well roasted, with an apple in their mouth." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z On the way out, Charlie sees on the kitchen table the long carving knife she cuts roasts with, and he senses vaguely that she wanted to hurt him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My father, meanwhile, separated the seeds from the pulp and set them out to dry on a cookie sheet, so that we could roast them later on. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The servants began bringing out platters of ribs, roasted in a crust of garlic and herbs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Not only was the roast chicken unimpressive, but after a few forkfuls, she’d dashed into the bathroom to deposit the contents of her stomach. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “She’d make a big roast and then the next day it was gone. Who was eating all that food? Always looking up at the ceiling. What were they looking at?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A sweet haze veiled the sunset: cherries roasting in the Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The people roasting marshmallows across from us stared at him. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When it cooled off, Dad lit a campfire on the lawn, and we roasted marshmallows. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to put a little roast pig on the grave of my father.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The crisp-skinned pork, sliced from the roasted pig on the spit, smelled delicious, but she knew it was not for her, not with her remaining teeth loose and her gums sore. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They roasted apples in the fire, but ate the pasty cold, and hunger sauced it better than the finest cook could have done. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z They roasted the sweetcom in the husk that night, turning the ears with long forked sticks, and ate it hot right off the cob. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But she came back with a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I had expected the room to smell of death, but on account of Mrs Mortimer - or else her apron - the room was dominated by the smell of roasting. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Mary was aware of the smell of roasting corn, and the warm smell of the mulefa themselves—part oil, part warm flesh, a sweet horselike smell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Three corns and one roast raven,” said Dolorous Edd. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was like the old quarter of Tours, where they roasted coffee at the spice shops each afternoon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo dug around the deserted gardens until she had found several sweet potatoes to roast. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pig-meat into the invisible flames. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But Native Americans figured out a way to turn them into a rich food by grinding, soaking, and roasting them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Jimmy poked the roasting meat with his fingers and nudged the coals, prowling around the fire as if sizing up a grappling partner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The house smells like roasted chiles, and it’s so warm that my glasses fog. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I was asking my man Justin where you guys are going tonight,” Jeff says, mouth half full of roast beef and mashed potatoes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Crackers and roasted chestnuts in bed at night satisfied only a small corner of her hunger. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes fished Pilar’s book out of the tub with barbecue tongs and placed it on the porcelain platter she reserved for her roasted pork legs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were four plates of roast pork and vegetables. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We could have held a luau on that bus, with a roast pig and hula dancers, and he would have been none the wiser. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I seen a lot of girls get roasted out there, showboatin' on that first four hundred. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Nok stepped up to the front of the line, where an older woman was taking orders for roast chicken. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z People gathered outside the old man’s house to drink wine, play the guitar, and keep an eye on the steers that were being roasted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a column of ants marching across one of the flagstones and Bruno Jenkins was focusing the sun through his magnifying-glass and roasting the ants one by one. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Around me was the sound of the victors celebrating and the smell of meat they roasted for their supper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, we were pretty wet, and the problem with getting warm by a fire is that one side of you is always cold, and the other side is always roasting. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The backs of her legs were mapped with dark blue veins, and her upper arms sagged like the flesh of a roasted eggplant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Lizzie Barton, roasting a marshmallow on a stick, told us how she had become fond of the post of a leather saddle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I treated everyone to a roast beef supper at the hotel. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If they managed to kill a deer or antelope, we’d make a fire and roast the meat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts along the sidewalks and begin to set up for another day of business. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We always had roast beef or turkey and ham for Christmas. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In describing the fire dead, the term the newspapers most liked to use was “roasted.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You might be surprised to know how many pigeons roosting in the eaves of Atlanta’s Public Library have ended up roasting over fires in Grant Park. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As Mama cut a bite of roast beef, looking pitiful, Papa reached across the table and put his hand on her hand that held the knife. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z At the Bunch of Grapes a maid was basting a roast of beef. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He filled his stomach three times a day with the roasted meat that he and Park had fantasized about in Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Blanca and Alba were sitting with the journalists and guardsmen, eating roast pig with their fingers and drinking mouthfuls of red wine straight from a bottle that was being passed from hand to hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A loin of roast pork was sizzling in the oven. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They went on talking and remarking about it while Mother built a fire in the stove and put in their antelope leg to roast, and mashed some plantains. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another fellow told me our food was so wretched that he had to flee before it made him sick, so I had his foot cut off, roasted it up, and fed it to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “We played checkers,” said Czernobog, hacking himself another lump of pot roast. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped by the window, breathing in the scents of stale beer and roasted meat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These were sold to the fishermen, along with fresh vegetables and roasting ears. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He snagged a roasted onion, dripping brown with gravy, from a nearby trencher and bit into it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Other times, the sun beat down, roasting him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When the fire had burned down to embers, the boys raided the pushcarts of the Jewish merchants and stole potatoes which they roasted in the ashes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Here lies our comrade, Kemmerich, who a little while ago was roasting horse flesh with us and squatting in the shell-holes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He came back with a handful of roasted coffee beans. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The gallows is cut up and thrown on the fire, where it nicely roasts our fish for supper. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z At noon, they had a hot dinner of pot roast and noodles or something good like that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarsaparilla boiled for one of Sybil’s tonics, overpowering the aroma of the roasting meat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Oranges, bread, beer, soft drinks: many things in packets and cans were arranged on different levels and, and on the topmost, a roasted shimmering chicken, whole but for a leg. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The train station smelled like roasting pistachios from the old Turkish merchant outside, and burnt rubber from the train braking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He’s stress-eaten most of a pork roast and he’s been hitting the supply of wine and salami like it’s the war and the bombs are dropping, so what the hell. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She’d had too much wine tonight, but too little bread and none of that great bloody roast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The little doctor is sitting behind his big desk with an anemic-looking roasted bird on a dish in front of him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He tossed me a sub—roast beef with all the veggies. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Like the pig is roasting on a spit right in the living room, dripping delicious grease all over the carpet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then my father’s relatives held a feast and killed a cow to roast and invited a lot of people to come and enjoy the meat and help us build a new house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A week before the party, they prepared the banquet: half a steer roasted in the courtyard, kidney pie, chicken casserole, various com dishes, eggfruit, and the best harvest wines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His nose twitched to the smell of roasting meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was roast venison, of course, and flatbread, and sweet grilled onions and charred potatoes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tables sagged under the weight of venison, roast pig, smoked fish, and every kind of vegetable and desirable fruit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And he’d get stuck there and start cooking like a lump of pot roast. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “But they would have asked the bean of a darker roast and they would have liked a little chicory for bite.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no idea where she was heading, but sitting on that spring-drenched front porch I was suddenly roasting inside my winter jacket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The pieces of roast duck were swimming in a luscious, sweet sauce. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hot enough to roast a duck in here.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their own retainers made a busy sight with houseboys mixing bowls of water and wine, or sopping water up in sponges, wiping tables to be placed about in hall, or butchering whole carcasses for roasting. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been roasting heretics on the one hand—forty-five Templars had been burned in one day—and the heads of captives being thrown into besieged castles from catapults on the other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it was resolved and the roast was saved. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I know some of us don’t have teeth, but I do, and I want pot roast. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Bull said, spearing three slices of beef roast with his fork and reaching for the gravy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Saturday before Christmas, we go shopping in the open air mercado for roasted pig, avocados, guava paste, and ripe plantains for pIátanos maduros, the different merchants calling out their wares from their stands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A Vietnamese baby, which lay nearby, was a roasted peanut. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But her mother was in the kitchen humming happily and clattering pot lids as the visitors sat around the table toasting each other with glasses of mint tea and gobbling roasted chickpeas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In Stamps, lettuce was used only to make a bed for potato salad or slaw, and peanuts were brought in raw from the field and roasted in the bottom of the oven on cold nights. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We should grab the radio and call for the plane and go home and eat a hamburger and a malt, maybe eight or ten Cokes, a steak, some roasts and pork chops.... The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing delicious about watching Storch gobble the leg of a roasted goose. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There’s nothing more delicious than a roasted ear of fresh sweet corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Their Frigidaire was always stocked with newly acquired pieces of ham, half roasts and quartered chickens. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This was an order, and basically the price of admission, as she was holding the hot dog roasting sticks behind her back as she spoke. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Ron speared a roast potato on the end of his fork, glaring at it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Sarah and the other soldierwives spent most of their days down at the campground doing the chores for the regiment-washing clothes in big iron pots and cooking whatever could be found to roast or stew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he won it back with the help of roasted lizards. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She boiled cassia pods to make a thin, unsatisfying soup, and roasted spongy, tasteless water-lily bulbs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The mysterious decanter had been found outside the service door to the del Valle house on the same day and at the same time that the roast pig was delivered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For here he had seen maids roasting innumerable small squabs, each stuffed with fragrant dressing and wrapped in bacon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After removing the chicken from the oven, I spread the crinkled leaves of kale on a cookie sheet, sprinkled them with olive oil and salt, and slid them into the hot oven to roast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I managed to shoot a dove and a rabbit—not much for five boys—and at noon we roasted them on a spit over the fire. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She guided me to a quieter spot behind the roasted nuts tent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was the big back-to-school dinner that night—roast beef, green beans almondine, cheese soufflé and some elaborate lentil dish for the vegetarians. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But I don’t for one moment think they eat chili con came or roast turkey every day. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had made his famous salt roast, which was my favorite dish, but I had no appetite. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She spooned three bowls of steaming food for them—corn pudding and roasted rabbit—acting as if greeting strangers was what she did every morning. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent the rest of the weekend trout-fishing in the nearby river and roasting their catch on a fire of brambles, exploring the hills like children, and talking about the past. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We were riding along, the thing lesson being done, and here he comes again with a cone of roasted cashews he bought for us at the last stop. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She brought me roast beef and bread to eat. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The returning midwife, angry at Alyce for ignoring her earlier, set her to do all the least pleasant chores: roasting frogs’ livers, boiling snails into jelly, stripping the thorns from dogberry roses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For Sunday chow we had roast beef, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, carrot cake, and milk. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed she reeked powerfully of fat and roast cooking. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Speaking of pot roast, I had spent the three months before this involuntary visit subsisting only by a combination of my wits and the microwave. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I take slices of red pepper Mami has roasted in the oven and green peas from a Green Giant can and arrange them on the mound of arroz con pollo. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I wondered if the spirit of Delphi was roasting marshmallows up there or something. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They roasted and shared the lizard, shooing other children away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Osha found some loaves of burned bread that were still edible, and even a cold roast fowl that she ripped in half. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Along the midway the Anti-Horse-Thief Society had a stand selling burgoo and roasting ears. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He had a waxy bag of roasted pistachios from the old Turk outside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The air is filled with the scents of corn popping, peanuts roasting, and the tangy undertone of animal. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z |
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