 He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation is not much, and ten minutes suffices for the dinner ; fruit and toddy, the newspaper, and the work-bag succeed. In the evening the gentleman, being a savant, goes to the Wister society,...  Domestic Manners of the Americans - Stran 107avtor: Frances Milton Trollope - 1832Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comeR, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation...members of the Dorcas society. — And so ends her day.' — vol. ii. p. 72 — 75. The following passage will, no doubt, be considered as utterly savage :... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation...members of the Dorcas society. — And so ends her day.' — vol. ii. p. 72 — 75. The following passage will, no doubt, be considered as utterly savage :... | |
 | 1832 - 650 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation is not much, and ten minutes suffice for dinner ; fruit and toddy, the newspaper, and the work-bag succeed. In the evening the gentleman,... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation...to the Wister society, and afterwards plays a snug rubopr at a neighbour's. The lady receives at tea a young missionary and three members of the Dorcas... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 472 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation...snug rubber at a neighbour's. The lady receives at ten a young missionary and three members oi the Dorcas Society. And so ends her day." A harmless day,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1894 - 462 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation is not much, and ten minutes suffice for dinner; fruit and toddy, the newspaper and the work-bag succeed. In the evening the gentleman,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1903 - 470 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and dines. The conversation...gentleman, being a savant, goes to the Wister Society, and afterw.irds plays a snug rubber at a neighbour's. The lady receives at ten a young missionary and three... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1903 - 472 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits, and' dines. The conversation...gentleman. being a savant, goes to the Wister Society, andi afterw.irds plays a snug rubber at a neighbour's. The lady receives at ten a young missionary... | |
 | MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD - 1912 - 988 strani
...glance over the table prepared for dinner, she sits down, work in hand, to await her spouse. He comes, shakes hands with her, spits and dines. The conversation is not much then and ten minutes suffice for the dinner; fruit and toddy, the newspaper and the work-bag succeed.... | |
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