"Omelet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... those fresh eggs left we bought from that old cracker just outside the town limits?" asked the head of the expedition. "Half a dozen, you say? Good! Suppose you give us an omelet for a change. They might get broken, anyway; and we'd better have the use ...
— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne
... her head mounted with an old hat of felt, cocked, jammed, and indented in no geometrical form, rush to a pan containing a collection of the amputated legs of hens, seize a handful of the raw delicacy, and devour them with as much alacrity as a Yankee woman would an omelet ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... stewed tomatoes left in the dish from dinner will be put aside to use for tomato omelet, or they may be added to the roasted beef gravy for dinner, converting a plain homely gravy into one of better flavor. The half cup of peas may be added to to-morrow's consomme, or used as a garnish for the breakfast omelet. ...
— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer
... lass," said she good-humouredly, "if you laid me an egg every time you cackle, 'L'es Trois Poissons' would never lack an omelet." ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... guest. Telling Rousseau that he was sure he was a good, honest fellow, and no spy, he disappeared through a trap-door, and presently came back with good wheaten bread, a little dark with bran, a ham, and a bottle of wine. An omelet was soon sizzling in the dish. When the time came for Rousseau to pay and depart, the peasant's fears returned. He refused money, he was evidently distressed. Rousseau made out that the bread and the wine were hidden ...
— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell |
