 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 sivua
...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... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1918 - 298 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1919 - 264 sivua
...the air and houses built in the clouds. ... To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid b?side each cup and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum. In the houses of the richer colonists, as prosperity advanced, shell-shaped silver boxes for sugar,... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 422 sivua
...adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle which would have made the pigmy macaronis of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it....and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with s great decorum; until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1921 - 272 sivua
...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,... | |
 | 1919 - 300 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 sivua
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these...degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the bev- 90 erage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1925 - 638 sivua
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper teakettle. 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... | |
 | 1821 - 774 sivua
...distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle, which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these...decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd tnd economic old lady, which was, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table by a string from... | |
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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... 
