 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
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 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 tca-table by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth—an ingenious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 pagina’s
...their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea- 10 kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat...until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and 15 economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from... | |
 | William Francis Rocheleau - 1909 - 430 pagina’s
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend, by a string from the ceiling, a large lump directly over the tea-table, so that it could be swung from... | |
 | Josephine Eunice Seaman - 1910 - 106 pagina’s
...beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside 10. The evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum. it is robbing the human race. 11. 'Tis only noble to be good. 12. There never was such a child for... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1913 - 456 pagina’s
...hour as if they had been committed only by Turks or pagans in Asia some centuries ago. — Greeley 24. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...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... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 552 pagina’s
...clouds, and sundry other ingenious fantasies. The beaux distinguished themselves bv their adroitage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the...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... | |
 | 1918 - 688 pagina’s
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend, by a string from the ceiling, a large lump directly over the tea-table, so that it could be swung from... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic 5 old lady, which was to suspend, by a string from the ceiling, a large lump directly over the tea... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pagina’s
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid...improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic sold lady, which was to suspend, by a string from the ceiling, a large lump directly over the tea table,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1918 - 298 pagina’s
...shepherds and shepherdesses tending pigs, with boats sailing in the air and houses built in the clouds. ... To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside...alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum. In the houses of the richer colonists, as prosperity advanced, shell-shaped silver boxes for sugar,... | |
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