They would be intolerable with vinegar.

Furthermore,--before we drop the figure,--if anything can butter them, it is fair words.
This business which we call living is not easy at the best.

Our parsnips are sometimes tough and stringy; sometimes insipid; often withered by drought or frost-bitten.

If served without sauce, they--to quote our old-fashioned people again--"go against the stomach." There is a pernicious fallacy to the effect that a rough tongue is an honest one.

There are quite as many unpleasant untruths told as there are flattering falsehoods.