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It’s there in the oysters cooked over the flames and finished with a trickle of scallion oil, and in the exquisitely well-roasted chicken served with jus that tastes of pickled chiles and lime leaves.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

The “chunky,” usually gray rock pigeon has pointed wings, a black bill with white base, red eyes and eye rings, and feet the color of a well-roasted slab of sockeye.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2021

Many housewives think it an improvement, and use either the under-cut of a well-roasted surloin of beef or a boiled fresh ox-tongue for the purpose.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

The only remedy is to feed it on raw or boiled carrots, or well-roasted pea-nuts.

From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

But on sniffing the well-roasted fowl they began to suspect a trick.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine