 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 - Strana 2691820Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - Počet stránok 476
...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 - Počet stránok 422
...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 - Počet stránok 472
...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 - Počet stránok 332
...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 - Počet stránok 450
...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 - Počet stránok 494
...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 - Počet stránok 482
...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 - Počet stránok 478
...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 - Počet stránok 422
...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 - Počet stránok 606
...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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