A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. From LearnThat.org. [Phaedrus (8 A.D.)]
I make a smoked marlin pate that my guests love, and it is quite like yours. From Wordnik.com. [Smoked Marlin Spread] Reference
I use it in pate choux all the time to get more impressive volume with a crisp texture. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty Near Perfect Popovers] Reference
For example, here's a spectrogram of me saying the word pate). From Wordnik.com. [Literal-Minded] Reference
I think I like the idea of pate more than I like the taste of it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
I've had it as pate, which is apparently not the way connoisseurs eat it. From Wordnik.com. [The Omnivore's Hundred] Reference
I really do enjoy liver, just haven't fixed it in years and a pate is a joy. From Wordnik.com. [Liver and Sage Pate] Reference
Pies and tarts can be created with a sugary firm crust (called a pate sucree) or a basic pie dough. From Wordnik.com. [Paul & Matt's Sports Attack] Reference
Whenever popular cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) sketches his likeness, Zuma’s pate is faithfully anointed with a shower head. From Wordnik.com. [2009 April 13 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
Already have I a bald pate, which is owing to my great meditation. ". From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
"Our friend from Siskyou over there appreciates that 'pate' which he cannot name as well as I do. From Wordnik.com. [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference
"Now I've got to tell what a silly-pate I've been.". From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"Terrine de pate de foie gras aux truffes du Perigord.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The term comes from a French word signifying a bald pate. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Never want to see, eat, or hear the word “pate” again. From Wordnik.com. [Donkey Kong] Reference
Fortunately I had in my baggage a large pate de foie gras. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
"Loads of what?" inquired Shiny-pate, rather incredulously. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
When love so rumbles in his pate, no sleep comes in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As Dr. Evil, though, Myers is shinier than his own shaved pate. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Mojo Rising] Reference
No pate de foie gras, no champagne, continued the Rat, grinning. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
Shiny-pate at once proceeded to crawl into the chest, but fortunately. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Campvallon, and a few slices of pate, accompanied by sundry glasses of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And I'll get that sniping rotter what drilled me pal through the pate. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
He waved his hat at them, his bald pate shining in the hot sun, and called out. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
Unfortunately, the only material she had with her was a tin of goose liver pate. From Wordnik.com. [Mark C. Miller: Tribute to World's Least Expensive Art] Reference
Stefano brought down a mug full of wine upon his pate, which gave him a red baptism. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Was it too much pate, or was there another reason for the roundness of the royal tummy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess, The Bodyguard And The Baby] Reference
Cino, for all his dismay, could not forbear a glance at the speaker's own damaged pate. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
More eggs were thrown, and as he ducked his head, one struck him on the top of his pate. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
Fortunately for himself, Shiny-pate was not included in the number who lost their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
His hair was black and limp and thinning, ruffled in little wisps across his wrinkled pate. From Wordnik.com. [The Risk Profession] Reference
I was a membrane, and no one could have destroyed me, for within a cover of hard pate I dwelled. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
And then he would add, tapping his little bald pate "The same thing happened to me in my youth.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And I certainly do not rush my garden shopping because the pate is getting warm in the Range Rover. From Wordnik.com. [What Would Virgil Say?] Reference
Europeans get fresh bread and pate at charming cafes; we get imitation milkshakes shoved at us by sullen teenagers. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Doesn't Have To Bite] Reference
Even "Dilbert's" creator admits that those two tufts of hair sticking out of the boss's mostly bald pate are modeled on the Devil's horns. From Wordnik.com. [Working In Dilbert's World] Reference
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