Diana Kennedy, in her recipe for the Mexican sausage moronga, calls for two quarts of pig’s blood.

An adder stone is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally occurring hole through it.

His peculiar character of shrinker from everything and every one, always retreating into his shell of contemptuous opposition as a snail into his shell, led, perhaps, to his rejection of ordinary phraseology, the simple mode of expression used by the million.

Our forces being landed and ſtationed as I have already mentioned, ſet about erecting a faſchine battery to cannonade the principal fort of the enemy, and in ſomething more than three vveeks, it vvas ready to open.