 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
 | Sherman Williams - 1898 - 344 páginas
...treated their company to iced creams, jellies, or sillabubs, or regaled them with musty almonds, moldy raisins, or sour oranges, as is often done in the...their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces of this mighty dish, in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 páginas
...musty almonds, moldy raisins, or sour oranges, as is often done in the present age of refinement. Jur ancestors were fond of more sturdy, substantial fare....their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces of this mighty dish, in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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 with...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... | |
 | William Francis Rocheleau - 1909 - 430 páginas
...winter-time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company, seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 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 with...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial board and each furnished with a fork, evinced thcir dexterity in launching at the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 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...of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels, and 30 swimming in gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork,... | |
 | 1912 - 332 páginas
...jellies, or sillabubs, 1 or regaled them with musty almonds, moldy raisins, or sour oranges, as it is often done in the present age of refinement. Our...their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces of this mighty dish, in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 páginas
...when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. 10 The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 páginas
...when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. 10 The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 552 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 launching at the... | |
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