 | Washington Irving - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. ANCIENT MODE OF EATING SUGAR. 171 The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 Seiten
...seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish, in much the same manner as sailors harpoon perpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense... | |
 | David Wilkie - 1837 - 320 Seiten
...seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish, in much...immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches or pears, and it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 Seiten
...God.' " LESSON CXX. Diedrich Knickerbocker's Description of Tea-Parties tn New York. — W. IRVING. THE company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and...in this mighty dish ; — in much the same manner w sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmoa in the lakes. Sometimes the table was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 472 Seiten
...furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish—in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 472 Seiten
...seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 Seiten
...seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 Seiten
...with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launch, ing at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish—in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 474 Seiten
...seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much...lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 Seiten
...books you selected. EXAMPLES. (252, 253.) We carved not a line, we raised not ii stone. — WoLFE. In the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes. I never want a word, but Pitt never wants the word. — CJ Fox. The Thaumatrope is an instrument in... | |
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The company, being seated around the genial board and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish; in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon... 
