 ... by a string from 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 without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2421821Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 976 pages
...lady, 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 —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. " At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 910 pages
...lady, 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 —...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
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