Gruel

(noun.) a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal).

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• In one hand he bore a light, in the other a receptacle containing a gruel-like mixture--the common prison fare of Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I must really be allowed to digest my gruel. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• To soothe her mother's anxiety she submitted to a basin of gruel. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• You must go to bed early, my dearand I recommend a little gruel to you before you go. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Briggs too well heard the creaking Firkin descend the stairs, and the clink of the spoon and gruel-basin the neglected female carried. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Give it a little gruel if it is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Hannah says you have had nothing but some gruel since breakfast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That is the kind of gruel which has been served out from Palestine for ages. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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