Not a great famine, perhaps; yet, to one accustomed to the genial juiciness of the West, the miles and miles of waterless hot plains, stretching away to where the horizon flickered in the glare, the brown and parched vegetation, the lean and hungry-looking cattle, tended by equally lean and famished herds, caused the monotonous view from the carriage windows to be strangely depressing.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
There is a method at cooking usually called "mudding up," which I have found to preserve the flavor and juiciness of ducks, grouse, etc.
"Woodcraft"
George W. Sears
They have neither the plumpness nor the juiciness, and still less have they that fresh odor of the sea that gives such zest to appetite.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever