 | 1818 - 582 pages
...pyramid of (owls at Ihe bollom, hens and ducks below, partridges at top; there was an eating posvet in the middle of the table, with dried fruits and...finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in an, instant every one flics to (he sweetmeats to pocket them; on which a scramble ensued, chairs overturned,... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...was a ham at the head, and a pyramid of fowls at the bottom, hens and ducks below, partridges at top; there was an eating posset in the middle of the table,...finished their supper the meat was removed, and in an instant every one flies to the sweetmeats to pocket them, on which a scramble ensued, chairs were... | |
 | 1817 - 526 pages
...a ham at the head, and a pyramid of fowls at the bottom, hens and ducks below, partridges at top ; there was an eating posset in the middle of the table,...finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in an instant every one flies to the sweetmeats to pocket them, on which a scramble ensued, chairs overturned,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 680 pages
...pyramid of fowls at the bottom, hens and ducks below, and partridges at top ; there was an eating-posset in the middle of the table, with dried fruits and...finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in an instant e\eT^j ctie'i'ss to the sweetmeats, to pocket them, on \V\Y\C\Ya soca.'KMva ensued, chairs... | |
 | 1854 - 448 pages
...pyramid of fowls at the bottom, hens and ducks below, and partridges at top ; there was an eating-posset in the middle of the table, with dried fruits and...finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in an instant every one flew to the sweetmeats, to pocket them, on which a scramble ensued, chairs overturned,... | |
 | William Mure - 1854 - 386 pages
...bottom, hens above, partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the midle of the table, with dryed fruits and sweetmeats at the sides. When they had...their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment every body flies to the sweetmeats to pocket them. Upon which a scramble instied, chairs overturned... | |
 | William Mure - 1854 - 378 pages
...bottom, hens above, partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the midle of the table, with dryed fruits and sweetmeats at the sides. When they had...their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment every body flies to the sweetmeats to pocket them. Upon which a scramble insued, chairs overturned... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1855 - 610 pages
...partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the midle of the table, with dryed fruits and sweatmeats at the sides. When they had finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment everybody flies to the .sweatmeats to pocket them. Upon which a scramble insued, chairs overturned and everything... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1855 - 612 pages
...partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the midle of the table, with dryed fruits and sweatmeats at the sides. When they had finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment everybody rlies to the sweatmeats to pocket them. Upon which a scramble insued, chairs overturned and everything... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1861 - 660 pages
...the bottom. This dish consisted of four or five ducks at bottom, hens above, and partridges at top. There was an eating posset in the middle of the table,...supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment everybody flies to the sweetmeats to pocket them. Upon which a scramble ensued; chairs overturned, and everything... | |
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above, partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the middle of the table, with dried fruits and sweetmeats at the sides. When they had finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment everybody flew to the sweetmeats to pocket them;... 
