 ... 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
 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...lady, which wag 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...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat- Hush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. •• At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 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 - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 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— an...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | 1820 - 490 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 —...but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Burgen, Flat- Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. 'At these primitive tea-parties the... | |
 | England - 1820 - 730 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 —...in Albany ; but which prevails without exception in Conimunipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. " At these primitive tea-parties... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fore-edge painting - 1821 - 362 pages
...lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceih'ng, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth —...expedient, which is still kept up by some families hi Albany ; but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 538 pages
...over the tea-table, 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...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which wag, to suspend a large lump directly over the tea-table...Albany, but which prevails, without exception, in Conununipaw, Bergen, Flat Bush, and all our uncontaininaUxl Dutch villages. " At these primitive tea-parties,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 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 - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...large lump directly over the tea-table, by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung front mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient, which is...prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flat-Bush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety... | |
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