Every means was used for the recovery o 'the boy, but it was a' useless, he was quite deed an 'caul'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Sketches] Reference

Some will, or used to, rob themselves of the necessities of life to purchase a baby's "caul," and wear it around their neck as a charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

"Eh, Cosmo, laddie, ye'll get yer deid o 'caul'!" she cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference

If'n you be born wrapped in de caul, you kin see 'em.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

    Melting lapt in flame fatly the slippery caul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

It was just the box where she kept Alvin's birth caul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prentice Alvin]

"Tis made from pig's liver and caul," he said, smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

These organs are connected with the stomach by the caul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It is fastened on her head by a caul sewn into the inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

I never had a caul, and I don't lay any claim to second sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

A child's caul hung in the cabin, prevents the ship from sinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

This is what is called being "born with a veil" or "born with a caul.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference

The meat, which was wrapped in glazed caul fat, wasn't dry for confit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape Pretension Island at Pomp-Free Papillon] Reference

"Preserve the caul," said Mary, suddenly remembering what she had seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

I was just thrown for a second by a wafer thin caul of two-ply bleakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Miller: Kristy, Misty, Mohammed, Hef -- and Me] Reference

“I have not a single piece of string or riband to bind the caul with.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

A caul must be preserved else the good luck that comes with it will be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

"It's because your culture hasn't finished licking off its caul," Amat said.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shadow in Summer] Reference

Henry VIII. had "a pair of hose of purple silk and Venice gold, woven like a caul.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

A caul covered his head, and was stripped away by the midwife; it was gossamer-thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

(The custom seems to be, to preserve the caul.) "Child born feet fore-most see 'um too.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

To roast a leg of lamb or mutton, remove the caul, the pink skin, and the superfluous fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

Here he erected great edifices where he placed, with great solemnity, the caul in which he was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

He could smell her sour sweat through the layer of sickly sweet perfume that covered her like a caul.    From Wordnik.com.  [I See Your Face Before Me] Reference

The two little kidneys, and the fat which is by the flanks, and the caul of the liver with the little kidneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

The two kidneys with the fat wherewith the flanks are covered, and the caul of the liver with the two little kidneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

The fat also of the bullock, and the rump of the ram, and the two little kidneys with their fat, and the caul of the liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

He set it back gently into the spell-caul for the moment, and set the silk on the ground, and slowly began to remove his armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

The two little kidneys with the caul that is upon them which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

The two little kidneys, and the caul that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the fat of the liver with the little kidneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Struggling with his sweat-frozen bag like a newborn trying to chew through its caul, Goodsir managed to free his head and shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

The brain-caul around it is reticulated with veins; and this brain-caul is that skin-like membrane which closely surrounds the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two little kidneys, with their fat, he burnt upon the altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Also, in animals supplied with fat the omentum or caul is supplied with fat, and it is supplied with suet in animals supplied with suet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference