 To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Pagina 5561820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | David Wilkie - 1837 - 320 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which had made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipt with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1839 - 288 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a huge copper teakettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. At these primitive... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 440 pagina’s
...replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle, which might make the beaux of the present day sweat merely to look at it ! To sweeten the beverage,...alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum. " In such parties, the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting, no coquetting,... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pagina’s
...by their adroitness in replenishing this pot, from a huge, copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the teatable, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. At these primitive... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economical old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 472 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup—and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 662 pagina’s
...nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economical old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth—an ingenious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 472 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 pagina’s
...themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious... | |
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