simmerings

Bass can certainly leave you with an arresting mental image, including this one from Elvis's funeral: The King, he writes, lay "in an open casket on ice, his insides baking, they said, decomposing faster than most normal people, falling apart, riven by violent internal chemistries, the simmerings of errant prescriptions and unsustainable excess."

"Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns 2010

Bass can certainly leave you with an arresting mental image, including this one from Elvis's funeral: The King, he writes, lay "in an open casket on ice, his insides baking, they said, decomposing faster than most normal people, falling apart, riven by violent internal chemistries, the simmerings of errant prescriptions and unsustainable excess."

"Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns 2010

Every now and then such simmerings of frustration boil over, as evidenced by the most recent spate of feminist posts chronicled these last two weeks at the excellent link-farm When Fangirls Attack!

Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

He appeased the luminous divinity by offerings of flowers, regaled it with simmerings from censers, besought it with the tremulous harp and had it pictured with grace and vested with charm.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

As her first communion approached, however, all these simmerings of scepticism and revolt died down into the recommended _recueillement_.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

In Yunnan there occurred, about the year 1846, the first simmerings of disaffection among the Mohammedans, which many years later developed into the Panthay Rebellion, but on that occasion the vigor of the viceroy nipped the danger in the bud.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

There seems to be the simmerings of new interest, finally: Heidi Julavits has praised him in an interview as an important literary trend setter, the original Roth, his Stern making

Boing Boing 2008

There seems to be the simmerings of new interest, finally: Heidi Julavits has praised him in an interview as an important literary trend setter, the original Roth, his Stern making

Boing Boing 2008

I boiled mine twice, cooling it between simmerings, but honestly don’t think the truffles lasted long enough for their shelf life to be a concern.

robert linxe’s chocolate truffles | smitten kitchen 2007