Crossword-Solution: CAPONS 6 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When the emissaries had mounted their horses to go, the duke told them: "Tell Tirant that if he wants to come and eat with me, I would prefer that to eating with him." "Sir," said Diafebus, "if there is no fire lit in your entire camp, what could you offer him? You couldn't give him anything but food for chickens and drink for oxen." The duke answered angrily: "I can give him chickens, capons, partridge and pheasant." The knights refused to listen to him anymore, and they wheeled about.

That was something I fled from like the Devil, because I was always more for eating cabbage and garlic without working than for working to eat capons and hens.

Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of _reested_ hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails—delicacies little known to the present generation.

Good night, my lord.’ The Lord Mayor elect thought of this, and turning to the stranger, and sternly bidding him ‘go out of his private counting-house,’ brought forward the three hundred and seventy-two fat capons, and went on with his account.

Quoth he, "If I do not change my luck in haste, I am like to have an empty day of it, for it is well nigh half gone already, and, although I have had a merry walk through the countryside, I know nought of a beggar's life." Then, after a while, he began to grow hungry, whereupon his mind turned from thoughts of springtime and flowers and birds and dwelled upon boiled capons, Malmsey, white bread, and the like, with great tenderness.