 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately 5 nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement...ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. 1 Salmon (sam' mun).—' DSlf, earthen ; a kind of ware made in imitation of china at Delft, properly... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 pages
...sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbed and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement...string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from month to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 498 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately5 nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement...the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth tc mouth. 1 Salmon (sam1 raun). — * DJlf, earthen ; a kind of ware made in imitation of china at... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. 25 To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and...suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a 30 string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately' nibbled and...ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. 1 Salmon (sam'imm).—'Dclf, earthen ; a kind of ware made in imitation of china at Delft, properly... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and...the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth—an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and...the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to month — an ingenious expedient, which is still kept up by some families in Albany: but which prevails... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...imitation of china, at Delft, affectedly nice or showy ; fopS ; properly called delft war'-. beaux. each cup, and the company alternately ' nibbled and...ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth. 7. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 532 pages
...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. 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 wag introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the... | |
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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... 
