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 2691820Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1918 - 688 páginas
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company, seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1918 - 298 páginas
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1919 - 272 páginas
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1919 - 264 páginas
...tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into 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... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1919 - 268 páginas
...fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial board and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity m launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises... | |
| Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 páginas
...sturdy, substantial fare. The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices 1s of fat pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels, and...their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces of this mighty dish in much :o the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea or our Indians spear... | |
| 1919 - 300 páginas
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
| Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1921 - 272 páginas
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 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 their dexterity in launching at the... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 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...brown, cut up into morsels, and swimming in gravy, eo The company, being seated round the genial board and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity... | |
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