Read full poem →And for his judgment, lo, a pudden!
Roast beef, though old, proclaims him stout,
And grace, although a bard, devout.
Dictionary Entry
A cut of meat suited to roasting
Origin
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Common Phrases
beef roast. roastchicken roastpork roastmeat roastturkey roastroast potroast cold
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Poetry examples for “roast”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →“Yes,” said my mother, “carrots and peas and roast beef.”
Read full poem →"Here, George! be quick
Roast beef and a potato.
I'm due at the courthouse at half-past one,
Read full poem →And the face that speaks its chief
Delight in beer and roast beef
Before you have seen his eyes, you see
Read full poem →Britain has been a drinking nation. It drank as a matter
of course, just as it ate roast beef. English literature is
permeated with drinking. The old English tales tell of
Read full poem →Reach a man's mid-thigh, no less, no more,--
For they mean he should roast in the sight of all.
Read full poem →--I'll tell you,--calmly would decree
That I should roast at a slow fire,
Read full poem →avocado pear halves stuffed with crabmeat and mayonnaise, and
platters of rare roast beef and cold chicken, and every so often a
cut-glass bowl heaped with black caviar. I hadn’t had time to eat