 ... mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion...  Washington Irving - Page 230by Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1893 - 700 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventuret a necklace of savory sausages ; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 462 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; nota turkey, but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure,... | |
 | American essays - 1896 - 374 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer2 himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 152 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizard under its wing, and, peradventurc, a necklace of savory sausages ; and even bright chanticleer... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1897 - 72 pages
...ducks paring cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey, but he beheld dainti y trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages;... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 266 pages
...in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 328 pages
...couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek sides of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham; not a turkey but...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
 | William Landon Felter - Readers - 1900 - 244 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
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