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" As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the taste of [them,] or rather, I think they have no taste to enter into. The meat is juicy enough, but has so little taste, that, if [you] shut your eyes, you will not know by either... "
The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century - Page 9
by Henry Grey Graham - 1899
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The Coltness Collections, M.DC.VIII.-M.DCCC.XL.

James Dennistoun - Belgium - 1842 - 486 pages
...and that he submitted to the pagentry rather than made it his only bussiness. As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

1842 - 788 pages
...particularly meritorious. We have room only for one paragraph of this rich section. ' As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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The Coltness collections, MDCVIII-MDCCCXL [relating to the Steuarts of ...

Coltness Collections - 1842 - 490 pages
...and that he submitted to the pagentry rather than made it his only bussiness. As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 558 pages
...particularly meritorious. We have room only for one paragraph of this rich section. ' As for their victualie they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...no taste to enter into. The meat is juicy enough, hut has so little taste, that, if you shut your eyes, you will not know by either taste or smell what...
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Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton: From England, Holland and ...

Margaret Steuart Calderwood - Belgium - 1884 - 454 pages
...and that he submitted to the pagentry rather than made it his only bussiness. As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton: From England, Holland and ...

Margaret Steuart Calderwood - Belgium - 1884 - 462 pages
...appearance of a recluse, and that he submitted to the pagentry rather than made it his only bussiness. by either taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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The West of Scotland in History: Being Brief Notes Concerning Events, Family ...

Joseph Irving - Scotland - 1885 - 376 pages
...Calderwood on English dinners is especially notable as well as quotable : — " As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 138

England - 1885 - 896 pages
...popularly supposed not to quarrel, Mrs Calderwood is not to be appeased : — • " As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if they had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 167

Literature - 1885 - 852 pages
...popularly supposed not to quarrel, Mrs. Calderwood is not to be appeased : — As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...you will not know by either taste or smell what you arc eating. The lamb and veall look as if they had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 564 pages
...particularly meritorious. We have room only for one paragraph of this rich section. ' As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the...taste or smell what you are eating. The lamb and veall look as if it had been blanched in water. The smell of dinner will never intimate that it is on the...
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