BurlesqueRichard Henry Stoddard W. F. Gill, 1875 - 224 頁 |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
a-settin a-standin Aaron Burr Abel adn't agoin ain't Balaam Beatrice Grey beautiful bein believe boot Cain called cambric cards Catherine Wheel certingly church colors course Cræsus Cream Cheese cried Croesus dance dear Caroline Diabolus Dilbury dinner doctor door dress eyes Father Francis Gambouge Gauche Boosey gentleman GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS give goes Griskinissa Guy de Montgomeri HAPPY THOUGHT hear Hoosh lady linsey-woolsey livery look lovely Milburd mind Miss Millar never night noble savage nooker parties pawnbroker phrenologi picture play Polly poor Potiphar pretty quadrille reg'lar round says to Brown servant Settum Simon Sir Guy Stoke Pogis sure talk tell theayter thing thro Timon told turn uffy umbreller Umtargarties werry whist wife WILLIAM F wish wonder Wotever Wouter Van Twiller young
熱門章節
第 133 頁 - The young folks would crowd around the hearth, listening with breathless attention to some old crone of a negro, who was the oracle of the family, and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches, grisly ghosts, horses without heads, and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians.
第 136 頁 - No flirting nor coquetting — no gambling of old ladies nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones — no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen, with their brains in their pockets — nor amusing conceits, and monkey divertisements, of smart young gentlemen, with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen stockings ; nor ever opened their lips excepting to say yah Mynheer, or yah ya Vrouw,...
第 131 頁 - ... worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation, under the discipline of mops and brooms and...
第 134 頁 - 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-time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark.
第 47 頁 - ... literary turn, who had been with difficulty persuaded to take a hand ; and who, in his excess of candour declared that he thought there was no harm in unbending the mind now and then, after serious studies, in recreations of that kind ! She could not bear to have her noble occupation, to which she wound up her faculties, considered in that light. It was her business, her duty, the thing she came...
第 135 頁 - ... macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the...
第 134 頁 - Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears ; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks — a delicious kind of cake at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.
第 46 頁 - These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will spoil a whole pot. Of such it may be said that they do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them.
第 137 頁 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.