For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
The hotel specialized in homely English fare and we had a cut off a leg of excellent lamb with green peas and new potatoes and a deepdish apple pie with Devonshire cream to follow.
I am sorry to see those white hands of yours, nephew" ; and he showed the shoulder-of-mutton fists which Nature had put at the end of his own arms. " There's a pair of hands made to pick up silver pieces.