 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
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat J - merely to look at. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...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... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 474 pagina’s
...their <-uftCp'ttles9 'n replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made tlw pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely...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 - 1854 - 472 pagina’s
...their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made th« pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely...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 - 1856 - 470 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...alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until fin improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 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...to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of suirir was laid beside each cup — and the company sItcrnatcly nibbled and sipped with great decorum,... | |
 | Jean Roemer - 1857 - 332 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...sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was made by a shrewd economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 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 - 1858 - 450 pagina’s
...copper tea-kettle, which would have a the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely ook at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid eside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pagina’s
...replenishing this pot, from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies 4 of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it....laid beside each cup, and the company alternately 5 nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic... | |
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