Significados de dine upon em inglês

Well, every one to his trade-wecan't dine upon figures.

How droll to dine upon fish cooked in a volcano!

It was to be low water about two o'clock, and we resolved to dine upon the sands.

They give four hundred a year to a cook, and dine upon a mutton-chop or a boiled chicken.

He did, in fact, press him to dine upon the morning of the day the Senator was going away.

And set his table ready to dine upon the fly;

As they did not always relish to dine upon eels, but little of their time was spent in procuring them.

Never dine upon drunkards.

He chewed the cheese and the lettuce leaf, and cursed every ploughman in England for choosing to dine upon such swill.

Little did the wolf care which way the stream ran, when once he had made up his mind to dine upon lamb.

I knew that the flesh of these is most excellent eating, and therefore made up my mind we should all dine upon it.

The feeders dine upon their victims, finding sustenance in the commission of atrocities so terrible that it is difficult even to contemplate them.

It was absolutely necessary, as he thought, that she should eat something, and he insisted that she should dine upon the road, somewhere.

But if he was a person of a religious habit, priest or monk, woe to the incautious Carib who might dine upon him!

The sum of twenty-one pence was in his possession, and, I ask you, as he asked himself, how is a gentleman to dine upon that?

And what, for God's sake, do those men mean who, inviting one another to sumptuous collations, usually say: To-day we will dine upon the shore?