sparrowgrass

"It is my fault," Father said, cutting into a sparrowgrass spear.

Isn't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago?

I reached for the goblet and trailed my balloon sleeves through the sparrowgrass sauce.

Laurentide Ice was running at Vancouver against Voting Right and Sparrowgrass.

A serving maid whisked away my uneaten sparrowgrass and replaced it with scallops and tomato aspic.

'Ask him for general information on a Mr and Mrs Young who own a horse called Sparrowgrass.'

Then came the Sparrowgrass Papers, his best performance, first published in The Knickerbocker, and in 1856 as a widely read volume.

Frederick S. Cozzens's 1855 serial in Putnam's Monthly Magazine created the Sparrowgrass family, whose suburban misadventures are the 19th-century equivalent of a sitcom.

'Now, Sparrowgrass,' Zak said, consulting his list and very smoothly carrying on, 'who owns Sparrowgrass?'

'And as for the Vancouver race,' she went on blithely, 'Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now, but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance.

'The answers are that Mr and Mrs Young who own Sparrowgrass are frequent and welcome visitors to England and are entertained by the jockey Club at many race meetings.

Sparrowgrass will probably start favourite as his form is consistently good, but as you ask, very likely the best horse, the one with most potential for the future, is Mercer Lorrimore's Voting Right, and I would give that one the edge.'

I peered at a few of them, identifying Filmer and Daffodil's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones, the Lorrimores' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay, and the Youngs' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock.

He was a Mr. Moses Gluckstein, a city gent and very pleasant and fond of sparrowgrass and chokes, and 'e cut in-there 'adn't been no customers for days-and began to talk very fast, offerin' me for anything I 'ad, anything, petaties or anything, its weight in gold. '