 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 - Page 2691820Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 294 pages
...the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...The -company being seated around the genial board, md each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in lanching at the fattest pieces in this mighty... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pages
...present age of refinement. Our ancestors were fond of more sturdy, substantial fare. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...pork, fried brown, cut up into morsels, and swimming m gravy. The company being seated round the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their... | |
 | David Wilkie - 1837 - 320 pages
...refinement. Our ancestors were fond of more sturdy, substantial fare. * See Life of Laurie Tod. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1842 - 652 pages
...time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company being seated aroui.d the filial board, and each furnished witb a fork, evinced their dexterity in launch, ing at... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 662 pages
...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...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 in... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 472 pages
...fashionable hours were a little earlier., that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 490 pages
...the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The teatable was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1851 - 482 pages
...time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...furnished 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... | |
 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 pages
...time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark« The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish,...furnished 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... | |
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