 | Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912 - 618 pages
...company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in wintertime, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. Theiao tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork, fried brown,... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 552 pages
...company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter-tune, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier,...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... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. 10 The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1918 - 432 pages
...fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. 10 The tea table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored...up into morsels, and swimming in gravy. The company seated round the genial board, evinced their dexterity in launching their forks at the fattest pieces... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1918 - 298 pages
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
 | 1918 - 688 pages
...company usually assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter-time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might reach home before dark. The tea-table was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1919 - 272 pages
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - 1921 - 450 pages
...own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock and went away about six, unless it was winter time, when the fashionable hours were a little...earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark. I do not find that they ever treated their company 10 to ice creams, jellies, or sillabubs, or regaled... | |
 | 1919 - 302 pages
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1921 - 272 pages
...at the supper, which occurred between three o'clock and six. The tea-table, the chronicler tells us, was crowned with a huge earthen dish, well stored with slices of fat pork and fried trout, cut up into morsels and swimming in gravy. The company, being seated round the genial... | |
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These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter... 
