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See also: Sheep Quotes
Mutton Food Quotes
“He'd been drinking whisky from a beer glass, which he held by its handle in a fist the size of a mutton roast.”
Dr. Watson in 'The Adventure of the Coughing Dentist' by Loren D. Estleman (2009)
"Let the leg of mutton be awaited as the first lovers' meeting, mortified as a liar caught in the act, golden as a young German girl and bloody as a Carib."
Des Essarts (1740-1793) French actor
"Mutton is to lamb what a millionaire uncle is to his poverty-stricken nephew."
Des Essarts (1740-1793) French actor
“'Een in our hashes live their wanted fires' - as the poetical cook said when they said her hashed mutton was not hot enough.”
Edward Lear, English artist, writer (1812-1888)
'literary nonsense'
“Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of scented urine.”
James Joyce, Irish writer. (1882-1941)
“When they didn't give him boiled mutton, they gave him rice pudding, pretending it was a treat. And saved the butcher.”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
'The Schoolboy's Story' (1853)
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