sucking-pig

You will find there is vexation, and liveliness and much of it, in the centre of the dog-killing yard when the sun cooks your sore joints till the grease of the leanness of you bubbles like the tender fat of a cooked sucking-pig.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

This fish is, as far as my knowledge extends, unique in one respect, for it contains twelve bones resembling the knuckle-bones of a sucking-pig, linked together like a chain in its belly.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

This fish is, as far as my knowledge extends, unique in one respect, for it contains twelve bones resembling the knuckle-bones of a sucking-pig, linked together like a chain in its belly.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

They served first for a cold course white sucking-pig with horse-radish cream, then a rich and very hot cabbage soup with pork on it, with boiled buckwheat, from which rose a column of steam.

The Wife 2004

It is only one short verst; instead of lenten oil, I will give you sucking-pig and kasha.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Her husband was with her, a fat red-faced man, with large hands and feet, white eye-lashes, and an immovable smile on his thick lips; his wife never spoke to him in company, but at home, in moments of tenderness, she used to call him her little sucking-pig.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

Tilly sent me over the loveliest little sucking-pig this morning.

Australia Felix 2003

A sucking-pig: its flesh should taste as tender as could be.

Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Our dinner was provided for us, the Greens sending stuffed sucking-pig and others crowberry open tarts.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

No less than four dinners were sent us today, three plates of stuffed mutton and one of sucking-pig.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow