 The company being seated around the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in lanching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 2691820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 páginas
...the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in lanching at the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 472 páginas
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that, the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 páginas
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their desterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much the same manner as sailors... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 páginas
...the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...present age of refinement. Our ancestors were fond of more sturdy, substantial fare. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut into morsels and swimming in gravy. 7. The company, being seated around the genial board, and each... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1858 - 482 páginas
...tea-parties, 'they commonly assembled at three o'clock in the afternoon, and returned at six. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork, cut up into morsels, and swimming in fat. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 páginas
...the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 páginas
...hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned wife a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat...brown, cut up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. 11. The company, being seated around the genial board, and each furnished wife, a fork, evinced their... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 páginas
...Our ancestors were fond of more sturdy substantial fare. Their tea-tables were crowned with a large earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels, and ticimming in gravy. The company being seated around the genial board, and each furnished with a fork,... | |
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