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In Penang a certain number of these trees are not permitted to bear fruit; the embryo bud, from which the blossoms and nuts would spring, is tied up to prevent its expansion, and a small incision then being made at the end, there oozes in gentle drops a cool, pleasant liquor called sarce or toddy, which is the palm-wine of the poet.

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

He looked toward what he himself would have called the "sarce" garden, with its cabbages, turnips, rustling corn-stalks, and drying tomato-vines.

The Calico Cat Charles Miner Thompson 1902

He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The air is impregnated with allspice and nutmeg – apple "sarce" and cranberry "persarves" become visible, while sal-a-ratus and molasses are evidently in the ascendant.

Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845

Them folks will take any sort o 'sarce from the Yankees, ef they only buy thar truck.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

"Better than that, messmate; on'y it wants the young gen'leman to set to work and ketch some shrimps for sarce."

Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

"No, you weren't, and don't give me none of your sarce," said Bob.

Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel George Manville Fenn 1870

Give me any of your sarce, and I'll let you know who is the oldest.

The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning 1859

"Och! we wouldn't need capers-sarse," interposed Briant; "av we only had the mutton, I'd cut enough o 'capers meself to do for the sarce, I would."

The Red Eric 1859