Example Sentences

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The look she gave me would have fricasseed a rhino.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

We have fricasseed chicken and strawberry cake For our dinner to-day.

From Three Women by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

"Mebbe he'll wait and have fricasseed rooster for dinner," suggested Hiram, grimly.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman

Why, my dear young nephew," exclaimed Jack, "if I'd been awakened to action I'd have fricasseed those gooseberries, built them up into a gastronomical poem; and made a meal of them fit for a king.

From The Voyage of the Rattletrap by Wilder, H. M.